Is it possible to decorate a unisex – and tasteful – nursery?
“I can’t believe you don’t want to know,” is the resounding response when I explain I don’t know the sex of my unborn child. Now eight months pregnant and hit by the “nesting bug”, my mission is to create a unisex nursery that steers clear of cult-ish cartoon characters and lurid colours. Search for the perfect furniture with The Independent house and home database, powered by mydeco. With pregnant hormones on overload, decision-making near impossible and the realization that babies are not babies for very long, decorating a tasteful unisex nursery is a Mothercare minefield. Thankfully, Bunny Turner, co-founder of nascent design firm Turner Pocock, is on hand to give advice. Baby-friendly and kitsch need not go hand in hand, she assures me. “There is a trend for people to avoid the readily available. Cath Kidston has been seen and done.” Needless to say, baby blues, girly pinks, butterfly or tractor prints are out of the question for my uni-sex nursery. As is anything Disney related or
