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@ Furniture mistake & a meltdown
The delivery men just came and put together the furniture for the baby. Before they left they had me check it and it was not the color I was expecting, but it is the color I had registered for, beech. Separately I had registered for a glider from the same company which I had believed to be beech so I thought oh well what can I really do.
Then, I just checked and no the glider was in antique pine (again I registered for it) and this is the color I really wanted as it matches closely to the dressers we already have in our bedroom. The crib and changer are now a much lighter wood color and don't come close to matching the dressers already in the room or the glider which is currently in my living room. Cue crying. Then, I looked at the company's website and found that because we had it assembled even if they would agree to take it back it would cost a minimum of 150pounds plus I don't know how much extra for the new set.
Now I realize this is completely my fault because of what I put on the registry, but I'm so upset at myself for making this mistake. I'm trying to just keep telling myself that eventually for the next baby it will only be the the crib, changer, and rocker in one room and the fact that the rocker is a different color won't be so terribly noticeable.
Re: @ Furniture mistake & a meltdown
I'm sorry! I know how things that aren't such a big deal can seem huge while pregnant...especially when you feel like it's your mistake!
At first I wanted all my furniture to match perfectly as well, but eventually I realized that probably no one will notice but me and settled for having different shades of white furniture. So yeah, I'll agree that the rocker being a different color is not going to be too noticeable, but I totally understand being frustrated by it.
Hugs to you! I'm sure once baby arrives you won't even be thinking about the color of the rocker.
Oh I'm sorry. That would probably make to cry too, and I'm not pregnant.
Can you buy a small can of wood stain to try to get it closer to the colour you want?
This is a possibility for when we have baby number 2, but too late now. I also don't know if I trust myself to then not completely ruin the furniture. : ) I just need to put my big girl pants on and let it go.
Part of me wants to yell at H and say he should've paid more attention when I was registering for things and maybe he would have caught it, but again I realize this is me being completely irrational. He's also trying to be very sweet and telling me that he likes it this color better anyway because it's softer and more baby like. I'm glad he has patience because I'm not usually so crazy.
I'm going to finish washing everything today and put it all away and try to forget about the color. Besides, I have to now figure out where one of the other dressers is going because it definitely does not fit the way we thought it would. At least I can laugh at myself.
Ha. Well, OK, it sounds like you're coming around to the right attitude. I'm sure once you put the bedding on and everything, no one will notice. I had the same problem where I was trying to match the furniture to the guest bed that's going in the same room and I had to remember that this is not my forever home.
Good luck getting everything ready!
LOL @ I'm not usually this crazy. Pregnancy will do that to you! I once cried because I didn't have crinkle cut french fries. Like, meltdown.
Anyway, if it helps, I was all intent on having things matchy matchy for the nursery, and having it painted in lovely Winnie the Pooh colors, etc.
Well, there is now a giant yellow paint stain on the carpet the size of a dead body outline, and it is only half covered by the armchair. And it's crunchy.
We stopped using the changetable for changing babies after week 2 and just did it wherever throughout the house, usually on the sofa or floor, as it was easier to change two on the floor than on the change table. It now holds the diaper bag and one of our old car seats.
The cribs I was adamant about being cute and matchy matchy, the rails now have bite marks. It was their preferred teething toy to chew on their beds.
Their super cute matchy matchy pink bedding is now stained up the wazoo, and the giant Sully that was in Lochie's crib is right now sitting in the bathtub waiting for the puke to be cleaned off it.
In my experience, nurseries may start out with the best intentions to look just like a magazine, but they rarely remain that way, and I'm cool with that. I like the giant paint stain, it's a conversation starter. I'm cool with the storage area that has become of my expensive changetable, and I think the bite marks are kind of cute. I'm still not thrilled about the puke covered ?40 Sully, though... but in time I'll laught about that too.
Hugs. When you've got your kiddo you won't even notice, and this will be a great story to tell people later.
Chronically hilarious - you'll split your stitches!
I wrote a book! Bucket list CHECK!
http://notesfortheirtherapist.blogspot.co.uk
This. I think we're actually at 4 or 5 different shades, counting the floor. Would I like all of them to match? Sure, but eh. I'm glad you're able to laugh at yourself because, honestly, the baby won't care and most people probably won't be going into the nursery anyway!
We were on a really tight budget when we put together Otto's nursery so things were a mixture of shades of white and wood. I was worried to start with but I just tried to make sure that the bedding matched pillows on the rocker which matched the colours of painting on the wall, and in the end I got really lovely comments on the nursery.
Like Tofu says, my cot now has teeth marks, there were stains on the carpet, the blinds were broken when he learnt to grab them in excitement one day watching the rubbish truck, things happen, they no longer look perfect, and now in Indonesia we only brought his cot over and hired the rest along with our other furniture, so absolutely nothing matches!
But I understand the frustration, I would have lost it over something like that!
Chronically hilarious - you'll split your stitches!
I wrote a book! Bucket list CHECK!
http://notesfortheirtherapist.blogspot.co.uk
That's what I've been doing. I think I may just have figured out how to actually fold it though...well I get the idea and it's an improvement but it certainly has more room to improve.
Ha - yes!
Everything in our nursery is 'antique pine' but none of it matches! The cot, W's bed, the wardrobe and the dresser are from 4 separate stores at 4 separate times. I hate it, but what can you do.
It's nto worth stressing over. And I don't have the money to start over! 
No matter what your furniture looks like, the baby will only know how much you love and care.
And pregnancy brain totally sucks. Should have seen the look on my face when I printed a cashier check upside down and couldn't figure out where I was supossed to sign. Even better, I turned the check upside down thinking that would help - it didn't.