The nursery furniture arrived on Friday afternoon. This means that in addition to spending all day Saturday painting I also had the pleasure of building furniture today.
We had chosen furniture from Mothercare and bought online (www.mothercare.com). To be honest I was quite impressed on how quickly the delivery came (having a wife on Maternity leave is great for waiting in for deliveries!!!).
The range that we chose is the Westbury range which includes a Cot Bed, Cot Draw and a Changing unit.
It feels like you need a degree to choose a mattress, in the end we went for a mid range choice (Mothercare mattresses range from £29 through to more than £150). You have the option to choose from Natural, Pocket Sprung, Spring Interior and Foam Care. Mothercare has some great information on all of these choices (click on the links above for more information). The mattress that we chose is the Spring Interior with Spacetec and Coolmax.
In addition to information on Mattresses follow this link for information on Sleep Safety.
If you decide to order any furniture from Mothercare you need to know that it all comes as flat pack and that it takes two people to build. You will also come to realise that the instructions are not that clear!
We spent most of the afternoon putting everything together. I am really impressed with the Cot, it is really sturdy and feels safe and secure. I am a little less impressed with the changing unit, this was £250 and it feels a little bit cheap!
As well as putting the furniture together Sarah has been out and chosen really cool curtains, light fittings and pictures.
Anyhow now that it is all done this completes the transformation of our spare room from junk room / office / guest room into a fully fledged nursery.
