Taking care of a baby is hard on its own, especially if you have older kid(s) running around and demanding your attention. The house may easily turn into a mess, not even mentioning the nursery where the action happens. Constant dirty diapers, onsies, swaddling blankets, bibs scatter around the room making finding the stuff you need almost impossible.
The most disappointing thing is that you don’t really have time to deal with this mess. But, you still want your baby’s nursery to look pretty and organized. Frankly speaking, having it that way will also make your life much easier.
So, I decided to compile a couple of nursery organization tips and ideas that will help you keep all baby items in order without devoting too much time to cleaning up or spending too much money on new organizers and furniture. Hope you’ll find them helpful. And now, let’s get started.
Baby nursery organization ideas
- Small nursery is always associated with the lack of storage space. Surely, you can’t squeeze a lot of furniture into one tiny room. So, when you start running out of space to put the diapers, blankets or other baby items away, upgrade your current furniture with hanging fabric storage pockets. Those are quite handy, as you can fill them with baby necessities, a couple of outfits and diapers you’ll be able to grab easily throughout the day.
- You may keep the dresser in your baby’s nursery much more organized if you devote each drawer to certain category of baby clothing. Sticky chalk board labels attached to the drawers will prevent you from throwing things to the wrong drawer.
- Purchase (or make) drawer divides to achieve the whole next level of separation and nursery dresser organization. The onsie drawer may be divided into the ‘long-sleeved’, ‘short-sleeved and sleeveless’, ‘with legs’ and ‘without legs’. It’s like real life baby clothes tetris.
- Roll baby clothes to put them away into the drawers instead of folding them. It will save you storage space and also keep the dresser neater, as you’ll be able to grab the item you need without pulling it out of a stack and making a huge mess.
- If you’re forced to deal with minimum nursery storage space, don’t let the items your baby hasn’t grown into or has already grown out of make it even worse. Organize your baby’s clothes according to the age-appropriate sizes and put the items your child isn’t going to wear right now into the storage bins. Once your baby is ready to move up the size, pull out the bin you need and reorganize the dresser.
- Double or even triple the space in the nursery closets by hanging additional racks and canvass closet organizers. Baby clothes are so tiny that you’ll be able to fit up to 4-5 racks just on one wall.
- If you have enough hanging space in the nursery closet, organize your baby’s outfits in it according to the age-size with the help of closet dividers. Make sure to hang new closes into proper sections to maintain the established order.
- Save money on purchasing plastic or wicker baskets to organize the nursery closet. Just make your own ones. Reuse diaper boxes. Decorate them with old pillow cases or wrap them with fabric with cool design, adorn the edges with a contrast ribbon and label the boxes according to days of the week to have the baby outfits planned ahead.
- If your nursery doesn’t include a built-in closet and you can’t afford purchasing a free-standing one or rebuilding the room, just find an old bookshelf, paint it and turn it into an opened closet with the help of baskets and bins. Attach a couple of hooks to its sides and hang a curtain to keep the ‘closet’ literally closed
- Wicker and metal hanging storage baskets may become awesome vintage-looking and relatively cheap shelves. Screw three or five of them down to the walls and use them to store rolled swaddling blankets, stuffed animals, books, rattles, lotions and other skin care products.
- Another way to employ those baskets is to attach a closet rack to the wall under the book shelves and use closet hooks to hang the baskets on it. That could be a perfect place for your diaper stash. And, once your child gets older, he/she may keep the blocks in them.
- Changing tables are the worst nursery space wasters. They might look fancy, but if you decide to purchase one of them for your baby’s nursery, you’ll regret your decision quite soon. A changing pad on top of a dresser with a bin or multi-leveled kitchen wire basket to keep clean diapers, baby wipes, baby powder and diaper cream within the easy reach will do the job just as great as a bulky changing table.
- Make the nursery changing station even more functional. Hang a peg board above it. Attach different baskets to the board to have a nice storage for diapers and diaper changing essentials that won’t occupy any room on the changing table. This board may become a functional piece of nursery decor as well
- Having a baby means doing a ton of laundry. And you need to have hampers and diaper bins available around the perspective changing spots not to have piles of smelly dirty diapers and wrecked clothes everywhere. Diaper genies and animal-decorated laundry baskets will work great.
- Old repainted wooden ladders and fabric bags hung onto the hooks of the nursery door will serve as both decorative and storage items. Hand your baby’s blankets and towels onto the ladder to be able to grab them on the go. Stuff the ‘door bags’ with blocks, teddy bears and other toys that normally take up too much space in the nursery.
Hope you’ll implement at least a couple of these baby room organization ideas while cleaning up your nursery. I believe they’ll help you maintain it organized much longer and easier.
