Preparing a room to welcome the newest member of your family is one of life’s more exciting and creative challenges. Options for nursery decor abound, and new parents can spend many hours (or days or weeks!) deciding on furniture and accessories that will provide comfort and joy for the baby. If it’s your first time around, the options can seem endless, and you’re probably very concerned with making the right choices.

A crib, a small bureau, a nice rocking chair, a changing table are all clearly necessary. While there’s no need to impress your baby with fancy, expensive furniture, you do want to purchase the highest quality you can affordfor two reasons: it must be completely, thoroughly, and absolutely baby-safe; and it will undergo a lot of wear and tear.

You must be able to darken the room completely, but you also want plenty of daylight for playtimes. So consideringwindow treatments is an important part of your decorating. Make them as flexible as possible. Situate the crib in a place where window light can be seen and enjoyed, but don’t put it next to a window. Babies can be extremely light-sensitive; and you certainly don’t need to expose them to any drafts.

After these basics of nursery décor are covered, perhaps the space still seems less-than-cozy. The colors you choose for furniture, walls, and rugs can help give the room harmony and a peaceful atmosphere. While pastels may be a traditional choice for anything baby-related, consider selecting a few bright colors as accents, which will become favorites as your child progresses towards toddler-hood.

This brings up a key issue for new parents: how to decorate so that the room grows along with its inhabitant, and adapts to changing preferences and needs. If nothing else, kids are always changing in leaps and bounds. Your significant investment in their nursery décor lasts a year or two, and then something new and different becomes necessary. Over only a few years, you’ll outgrow the crib and changing table; you’ll realize the drapes are way too ‘baby-ish;’ you’ll want to provide more appropriately stimulating surroundings for your child.

Enter WallCandyArts, of course. If you’re a good artist, you can paint murals on the nursery walls, or if you really love torturous work, you can put up wallpaper. For all the rest of us, WallCandyArts provides a way for the ‘theme,’ the ambiance, the overall feeling of the nursery to keep pace with your young one’s growth. From bubbles and butterflies for the new baby to writeable chalk boards, cars, trees and much more,WallCandyArts decals make it easy to redecorate.

Take comfort, dear new parents. This kind of changing and adapting and choice making is what parenting is all about. WallCandyArts is pleased to help you not only get used to the constant transitions, but also come to relish them!