blue room for a baby girl?

[monsterpepe]

So my wife and I are expecting...

Kiddo will be our first, and we're due in October. My wife has decided she wants to be surprised as to the gender of the baby, so we have no idea whether we are having a boy or a girl. It's all cool to me -- I'm psyched about either. But, here's my dilemma, what will be our baby's room is now our office, and it's a nice sky blue color. Wife says the room can stay blue even if baby is a girl, but I'm not sure. Thoughts?

 

[gecko]

First off all....each one of my 3 kids gender was a surprise at birth. Its very cool not knowing (IMO).

As to painting...whatever you do, get it done long before the baby arrives. You don't want your new born sleeping in a freshly painted room.

 

[midtown]

If you use the wrong color for a babys room it could lead to homosexuality.

 

[Bevoette]

I love light / sky blue ,as a teenager my room was that color.
once you know the sex you can add decals or wall border to suit that gender.
We painted our last childs room yellow because we did not know the sex and used border that had blue , pink, yellow and light green rocking horses.

 

[lostman]

Lostbaby #1 was a girl and her room had a "patchwork quilt" wallpaper on one wall and the other 3 walls were kind of a grayish blue. Very pretty. It really looked more like a "little kid's room", boy or girl, and worked well for Lostbaby #2 as well, who was a boy. We just added dolls and stuff for #1.

Blue works better than any other color I think.

 

[Mrs. Reboot]

We're doing a surprise too. I think anything in the yellow, green and blue colors are fairly neutral. Make it a baby's room rather than thinking of which sex the baby will be. There's lots of generic bedding out there you can use with blue.

 

[Smurfette]

no kids for me, but I say leave it blue, buy the pretty cloud-patterned baby bedding stuff, and add butterflies if baby is a girl and airplanes if it's a boy.

 

[eflow24]

Hey if adult men can wear pink, then a baby girl can sleep in a blue room.

Congrats, BTW!!

 

[Bookman]

I'd mix it blue and pink. You can do this by combining the two colors or having very small alternating vertical or horizontal stripes.

I'd suggest pink polka dots with a blue background, but that'd give your kid epilepsy.

 

[TexasEd]

Blue was considered a magical color at one time and when a baby boy was born they wrpped him in blue to protect him from evil spirits and demons. At the time the mortality rate for boys was much higher than girls and it was thought they needed this extra protection.

After some time it was pointed out that girls did not have a special color associated with them and so pink was selected.

I think it would be great to have the room ready and not know the gender. Your child wont care until he/she is older anyway.

I repainted my daughter's room when she was 5 to a pastel pink she loves, but she didn't care about until she was school age.

Ed