Nursery furniture

Sat Jul 28, 2012 12:51 pm

My DD is 19 months and her crib has been converted to a toddler bed. We no longer use her changing table so we were going to save that for the new baby. We were thinking because she's already comfortably sleeping in her toddler bed we might buy her a twin bed before the baby gets here. Then we could give the new baby both the changing table and the crib, and we'd only need to buy a dresser.

The only thing is, I want white furniture for the new baby and my DD's furniture is dark espresso brown. Do you think it's OK to paint the wood white or is that not safe?

Sat Jul 28, 2012 2:45 pm

Hmmm, that is a very good question.

My two thoughts may be contradicting but this is what I think.....

1. As long as you do it before hand I don't see why it would be a big issue to paint over. The fumes aren't going to stay on the wood forever. They probably even have non-toxic paint you can use... I haven't been to a store like Home Depot in forever. lol.

2. What if the paint chips off? I don't know if I would want that feeling of what if the baby is picking it off (when it gets older)...

Maybe that is just weird pregnancy talk.. talking.. haha.. but you have a good point and this is the first two things that popped into my head. I'm a FTM so I really don't have a good answer.

Sat Jul 28, 2012 4:16 pm

Should not be an issue! That being said it is not very easy to paint baby furniture or any furniture for that matter. It will take several coats and its tedious work. As long as u use the right paint and rough up surface first paint should not chip away and in no way should harm the baby. I have done this before it is NOT fun. That being said GOOD LUCK!!

Sat Jul 28, 2012 8:40 pm

Like the post above, if you sand it some first, and do multiple light coats it should look good and not chip, but it takes forever and i wouldn't want to do it lol. if it were me, i'd sell the dark wood furniture and use the money to purchase nice gently used white furniture instead. craigslist always seems to have an endless supply of used baby things for good prices that have only been used a few month/1 baby etc. just remember the drop side rail cribs are all recalled now. they have to be fixed side cribs now.

David & Monica 8-28-00

Sat Jul 28, 2012 9:58 pm

Good advice ladies! Thank you! I've never painted furniture before but if it's as tedious as you said I think I will end up selling what we have and buying a different set.

Mon Jul 30, 2012 10:06 am

I have not painted baby furniture, but intend to paint our changing table/dresser combo. We recently re-finished (painted) our kitchen cabinets which can also be hard to cover. Rustoleum sells a product to do the cabinets and I believe they have a white finish. All in all, we have a lot of kitchen cabinets and we only removed the doors and left everything else in place. It only took us a weekend to complete it. With less to cover I think it wouldn't take as long. I guess it depends on your patience level. I love our cabinets and for the effort, it saved us a ton of money versus replacing all of our cabinets.

Mon Jul 30, 2012 10:22 am

we were going to paint our old crib but DD chewed ... yes chewed on her crib so we were scared the new baby might do the same so we are buying new too

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