All for Wallpaper

Immediately after learning we were pregnant, we began to debate the sex of our little one. My husband refers to him and I refer to her. He talks about what we'll name him and I'm thinking of names for her. He's imagining the sports he'll play, and I'm shopping for dresses and headbands for her.

For one whole day, I actually considered not finding out - telling the doctor we don't want to know the sex of our baby. Because it doesn't matter, really. Boy or girl, we just want a healthy little one. And think how exciting the birth would be. The baby would pop out and I'd be all, "TELL ME, BOY OR GIRL?!?!"

So I thought, for just one day, that maybe we'd keep the sex a mystery.

And then I started looking for wallpaper.

As I've mentioned before, I plan to wallpaper one wall of the nursery, and paint the remaining three walls a complementary color. I'd like to decorate in blues and reds and oranges, for boy or girl, and I've already picked out this design from Romo Wallcoverings for a little girl. But I thought I should also look for something gender-neutral, that day that I lost my mind.

I found two that I like, this yellow one from Thibaut, and this green one from Ferm Living.

There are two problems these options though. First, our kitchen and living room are already green and yellow. Our bedroom is green and yellow. Our towels are green and yellow. We have enough green and yellow. Also, coincidentally, neither of these are blue, red, or orange. And anything I found that was blue, red or orange, was not gender-neutral. Like this one, also from Ferm Living, which would definitely suit a little boy.

After my unsuccessful attempts to find the perfect gender-neutral wallpaper, I realized it was hopeless, I will just have to know the sex of my baby.