Montessori Baby Room Tour
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I recently shared a tour of my son’s Montessori toddler bedroom and now it is time to share my daughter’s room tour. She just turned 1 and this is how her room has mostly looked for a few months now. It has many of the same qualities of my son’s Montessori toddler bedroom, but a few changes since she is younger.
The first thing I need to preface before sharing the whole room is that she does not sleep alone in here. This bed (code OnTheWay10 gives a discount) is not set up to be a safe sleep space at her age for solo sleep. My plan had been for her to take some naps on the floor bed and we would have made sure it was safe for her to, but we ended up choosing to exclusively contact nap instead. It still works well for us and I don’t want to fix what isn’t broken. She has Beddy’s on her bed which will be great when she is a bit older (they are ideal for my two-year-old), but I would not use them for a just-turned-1-year-old. Instead, I would switch to a single fitted sheet. The bed itself is firm enough for cosleeping but I would not have been comfortable with her sleeping on it solo before 1 year. At this point, I am comfortable with the firmness for solo sleep. Finally, to make the bed perfectly safe it should either be at least a foot from the wall or have the high sides designed for going against a wall. I plan to purchase these before she starts sleeping alone on this bed, though the bed could also be pulled away from the wall. We feel more comfortable having our babies in our room for at least a year and at a year I have not been comfortable switching them immediately either. She does sleep on here sometimes cosleeping but she is not against the wall and the top bedding is zipped down.
Having moved from NYC where we lived in a 2-bedroom apartment I just want to acknowledge the huge privilege of having a separate room for both your children, especially at a young age where they are hardly even using the room. We had planned for them to share when we were in NYC.
So here is a look at my baby’s Montessori nursery.
Probably the biggest thing is no crib. We do have a crib-sized floor bed put away that we had initially planned to start using at around 6 months old. At the point we moved (she was almost 5 months old) we realized we were not realistically going to use it for her. She did a lot better contact napping and sleeping in the sidecar on our bed. Because of that, we decided to just use the Full-sized bed we had from our room in the city since we were upgrading to a King. The point of the crib-sized floor bed was it was a firm crib mattress and high sides to go against the wall. Basically, at the point we decided not to set it up the decision was she probably wouldn’t sleep on it anyway until at least a year. If we decided we wanted it out though we could always set it up. We also needed a spot for our full-sized bed and this worked. If we were setting up her Montessori nursery for solo sleep we would have had that crib-sized floor bed because it is firm for a baby, safe against the wall, and a thinner mattress so less of a fall. Many choose a full-sized bed regardless since it is more comfortable for cosleeping. Honestly, I prefer a twin-sized floor bed (which is what my son has) but we did not want to waste our existing full-sized mattress.
Next to the bed is her Toniebox she got for her birthday and a basket of stuffed animals.
My favorite setup in M’s Montessori nursery is the accessible wardrobe (code OnTheWay10 for a discount). We got this for her for Chanukah this year and it is an item I was very excited to introduce her to. Unlike with my son’s where I store all his clothes on it, I store two options here for her to choose from. As she gets older I will put out more options. The rest of her clothes are in the closet or the dresser. These are the baskets we use for her wardrobe. The wardrobe is adjustable so we have her bar at the lowest height. My son’s is at the middle height.
Next to the accessible wardrobe is a small chair (kindly gifted to us by Piccalio). I love the little rainbow since that was the theme of her photos for her first year! This chair flips over to be higher when she gets bigger. Right now it is on the lower setting and she can sit there as I help her get dressed. Eventually, the chair will be helpful for her self-dressing. On the other side is a hamper for her to put laundry in. Putting laundry in a hamper is one of the first practical life tasks both of my children have enjoyed.
There is a built-in mirror on the closet door which I love! I add mirrors to my children’s rooms because they enjoy them and they help them with getting dressed and ready for the day. These are a classic in a Montessori nursery. It was wonderful here that this was already in the room safely installed. On the wall around the corner from the mirror, we have our Nugget couch. We don’t really build with it but I do love that it is a couch my baby can get on and off of. This also can be useful when she starts actually sleeping on the floor bed to put next to it if she is falling off.
Next to that is the dresser. This has clothes that are not in her accessible wardrobe. With items ilke this, the most important thing is making sure they are anchored to the walll.
In the middle of the room, we have a play mat. Play mats can be very helpful for using floor beds if your little one tends to occasionally roll off.
There’s a tour of our baby’s Montessori nursery! I feel almost a little silly sharing it since she doesn’t sleep alone in there and we absolutely did not need a nursery for her. Even so, we like the accessibility of her wardrobe and dressing station as well as her Nugget as a place for her to comfortably hang out. We will slowly introduce her to the space for more solo sleep once we get the high side for the floor bed. Her wallpaper is here and I love it (take that, everyone who insists Montessori is just beige aesthetic). The one thing left to add (for both my children!) is low artwork. I actually have artwork for her room but am trying to find frames that are the right size!
