Every media outlet is still going with “April” for the Duchess of Sussex’s due date, and I’m still doubtful. Maybe I’m wrong, but whatever, we’ll know soon enough. Currently, the Sussexes’ new home, Frogmore Cottage, is still being renovated and decorated, but they’re hoping to move in before the baby comes. Katie Nicholl at Vanity Fair has an update on how they’re decorating, specifically for the nursery:
The nursery: Harry and Meghan are said to be planning an eco-friendly, gender-neutral nursery which will include a bedroom, playroom, and a spare bedroom, for when Meghan’s mother, Doria Ragland, comes to stay…In keeping with the duchess’s preference for neutral tones, the couple are understood to have chosen a white-and-gray color scheme in the nursery, which is fitting because they have chosen not to find out the baby’s sex in advance.
No nanny, at least initially: According to sources who know the couple, they do not plan to hire a nanny or nurse initially, and will instead rely on the help of Meghan’s mother.Top-of-the-line security and such: Meghan has been hard at work compiling a mood board of ideas for the nursery which will have top-of-the-line cameras, security windows, and a state-of-the-art stereo system. “They are going all out with the refurbishment of the house, and as Harry loves his gadgets, it’s going to be very cool. They’ll be able to control everything from their smart phones,” says a friend.
Environmentally friendly: While it might be tech forward, the eco-conscious couple also want the nursery to be environmentally friendly and according to the Sun, they plan to use vegan paint infused with eucalyptus oil to decorate. They are also reportedly installing childproof windows and a £50,000 energy-efficient boiler.
They hired an interior designer: The couple have reportedly hired one of Soho House’s leading interior designers to help them renovate the property, which has historical preservation status. They are said to have appointed Vicky Charles, Soho Farmhouse’s design director to help them outfit their new home. Harry and Meghan are both fans of the private members club’s luxury furnishings and had a wedding registry with Soho Home.
They’re adding to the cottage too: There is a major £3 million renovation taking place at the new royal residence, a wedding gift from the Queen. As well as the nursery, the health-conscious couple is building a separate guest wing and a yoga studio complete with a springboard floor. While the tax payer will cover the majority of the renovation costs, the Sussexes will be paying for fixtures and fittings. Says a source close to the couple: “They are so excited about moving into the house. Meghan is super stylish and loves interior design so she’ll go all out with the nursery but also the kitchen, which she has designed as well as all the living areas. She wants the place to be filled with light, modern but also with a touch of the shabby-chic style that she loves.”
I’m sure the “£3 million renovation” price tag will raise a few eyebrows, but honestly… we’ve seen it before. I still haven’t gotten over the Cambridges ripping out a perfectly beautiful kitchen in Anmer Hall, or the fact that Prince Charles and the Queen had to spend the money to put in new tennis courts at Anmer. And this was after the multi-million dollar reno of Kensington Palace’s Apartment 1! So yeah, Frogmore Cottage is going to be Meghan and Harry’s family home, and it is part of the Windsor Castle estate, so of course a big chunk of it will be funded by the taxpayer. Also: a grey and white nursery sounds so dull.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Avalon Red.
Ive seen gorgeous grey and white nurseries. It’s various shades, patterns and textures that make it interesting but I do think that baby rooms should have at least a little colour.
I love the concept of the eucalyptus paint!
I don’t understand how it even makes sense though. I mean… they’re pushing the idea that it can help ‘purify the air’ but that sounds like garbage. Wouldn’t it fade off quickly? Would it affect the paints ability to adhere to the wall? I can’t imagine that it would have a long lasting effect if any effect at all? I mean, maybe I’m wrong. Beyond that… some essential oil particles can mix with the air and form secondary organic aerosols which can irritate eyes, nose, throat and cause possible damage to the kidneys and liver. I assume the later cases are associated more with the people working with oils day in and day out, or processing them in a factory… but still. Eucalyptus is one of the oils that creates the most aerosols.
@Erinn – yep, it’s another fad! I didn’t even know that normal paint wasn’t vegan. I’m off to google it now.
Yeah – unfortunately rabbit skin glue is used in fine art painting as a primer, ox gall is used in water colors & milk & beeswax used as binders in house paints.
Eucalyptus oil is specifically contraindicated for children under 5 – it can cause seizures.
Eucalyptus can cause babies and small children to struggle breathing so I hope to God they aren’t actually doing this. No eucalyptus, peppermint, spearmint for babies!
I would imagine that this is along the lines of low/no VOC paints. California has more stringent rules about acceptable VOC levels so she’s just keeping with that. Also, it could be complete BS and the whole eucalyptus oil thing is made up
I’m sure they’ll jazz it up with colorful accessories. With the neutral walls, the room can “grow up” along with the child.
Our place is all soft gray walls, with white woodwork/trim. It’s a gorgeous backdrop to the colors in the black lacquer Chinese screen mounted on one wall, and the the jade coloured sectional (with green silk and black pillows) in the LR. Other walls have lovely modern impressionist paintings, with splashes of color. The den is chocolate brown leather recliners, with shades of rust, cream, and brown in a huge piece of art, a beautiful dark brown Asian TV cabinet, and corner desk. Other “colors” come from the black framed family photos on the two walls above the L-shaped desk.
The gray is very soothing, and you bring your colors in with with your accessories.
Red would be great, since it’s the first color babies see.
Jan90067, it sounds beautiful!
“Some paint, some flowers, a few throw pillows…”
Sorry, “Young Frankenstein” came to mind.
I think the same, neutral colores are great for evolving, they are soothing as well, and with a few items (a rug, cushions, or a print) you can change the whole room.
I will add that the rainbow colored toys that children tend to accumulate, give enough pops of color…. Toys are the worst/best for breaking the neutralness….
Jan, your house seems lovely, I would love to have a look!
Thank you, Himmiefan, it really is 😊. It’s a very soothing place, with enough color in each room to pop, but not overwhelm. Decorating is a passion of mine, and I feel very lucky for my home!
Ellaus, thank you, and shout out when you’re in the LA area 😊. There’s always a bottle of red to share with my fellow CBers!
I did a grey and white nursery and then had a cute patterned yellow rug. It actually looked great….until my kid vomited all over the rug a few times and it had to go.
It’s good for babies’ eye development to be exposed to a lot of high contrast visually and bright colors. Grey and white sounds a lot more suited to an adult room.
Our nursery is Grey, white and light rustic wood. It’s simple, beautiful and he doesn’t spend enough time in there to need color. His playroom has a dumb colorful mat. It’s calming and serene in his room. And if we had a girl next, it would be perfect(we are having another boy though)
I have friends with beautiful white and grey nurseries and they are just lovely! It’s not to my taste, but I will acknowledge soft and serene 😃
Oh, for heaven’s sake. They’re close to Heathrow. Their other base is in London, which has even worse air pollution, which the Cambridges deal with every day. If any of them truly want to escape this kind of thing, they need to move to rural Wales or northern Scotland.
I love gray and white for any room. Once you know the gender its SUPER easy to add pops of color, if you want them. I hope they share pics of the home when they’re done!
You mean the sex, right, not the gender?
Curious why the gender/sex should have anything to do with the colours. Are you suggesting there are boy colours and girl colours? Is this 1950? Are you a Kardashian?
Sex and gender are the same thing. It’s just there is some antiquated ways people think people or certain sex should behave like which has been named gender. Boy and girl colors is one of the most silly ones.
Kendra – no, they’re not. Sex is biological, gender is social. Sex is often a protected characteristic in law, gender, not so much.
The sex of the baby should have nothing at all to do with the colours a room for a baby is painted, but some people have ideas about it.
The gender of the baby is a different thing.
All right I’m old, and I get that some people think girls should be pink and boys should be blue, and others think that’s stupid, but isn’t that really personal choice. I personally went with different shades of purple for each wall, as that was my favorite color, and my kid still remembers that paint job, so it worked. Besides soon enough they will probably tell you the color they want, you might as well like it.
Now about the sex & gender definition. Sex is biological, but gender is social. I’m curious how do you have a social definition with a baby? Again be kind I’m old.
It took me 30 years before I could purposely choose to wear pink. I used to hate pink because my parents had painted and wallpapered everything in my bedroom shades of pink and I had to live with that colour until I left to go to university.
Yes sex. and I should have said once you know the BABY you can pick colors. If you want.
I didn’t say they had to fall along male/female lines.
Some people like the blue or pink palate. I’d probably incorporate some of that with some yellow and soft green along with the gray walls. And soft peach, must hav ethat.
I had a gray and white nursery (with touches of yellow) for our second child…it was very soothing and comforting. I think when done well, that color scheme is really lovely.
We did pink and green and brown for our first child and that was cute…for a while, but it grew old fast. The neutral nursery then turned into a neutral child’s room, and was able to grow with our daughter and didn’t require a total repaint or redecorating, as we had to do with our older daughter’s room.
I LOVE gray/white for the reasons you listed…soothing and comforting…and REALLY easy to pop ANY color that you want as a splash against it….so I get it!
Your nursery sounds lovely! I wanted to do gray and white for my daughter but the crib we had was dark brown (I was cheap, bought it off a friend whose child had just outgrown it) so we went with gold and white with pops of color instead. So far I still love it and we designed it in a way that could either be updated for another baby or the room could grow with her, depending on how we want to do it for a second kid.
Gray and white is super trendy right now. I’d say about 75% of my friends who have had a baby in the last few years did gray and white with some other pops of color. It’s popular for a reason! Beautiful and soothing, and easy to update by changing accessories.
My bedroom is grey and white for that reason – at Christmas I can make it festive with reds and greens and in the spring I like yellows and aquas. Or orange. Orange + grey = magic. I like that the basics stay the same and I can change accent colours on a whim
I would love to see Meg’s mood board & how she rolls out ideas. I’ve never practiced that technique, so it’s really interesting to me.
The white/grey nursery sounds a bit boring imho.
I would love to see her pinterest board xD
White and grey sounds horrible. Make it green if you don’t want anything gender specific.
Ours is. Lol. But it’s sleepy time calm and filled with clouds and little lambs.
The wood is dark brown so it pops the grey and white.
I had illustrations made which added touches of blue and yellow to the grey and white too.
Our nursery is white and gray. It’s beautiful. We added a light blue accent wall with an intricate wood design (painted white). My husband took the idea from a model home and completely recreated it. I joke that our son has the most beautiful room in the house. There are so many patterns of gray and white that you can work with, and like most others said…you can throw in an accent color easily (yellow would be a fabulous accent).
I don’t really know why walls should be anything other than white. I mean it can but white is the classic choice and where I live by far the most common for all walls. The furniture l, carpets and curtains can be changed depending on kids age and they can have colors.
i understand liking white walls but “not knowing why walls should be anything but white”? seriously? different strokes, different folks, kendra. that something is “by far the most common” is reason enough for some people to want to do differently.
I hate it. My parents house the living room, dining room, kitchen, halls, entry way… all white. It’s just so barren feeling. If you’re someone who’s great at decorating it can work better, I guess. But if there’s not a lot on the walls it is just so ‘unfinished’ feeling.
All walls being white is too boring, bright, and easily gets dirty. We only had white walls years ago when we moved in to a brand new house that had just been built, and it didn’t feel like home until there was something besides walls as bright as a hospitals white walls. I can’t stand being surrounded by bright white walls. Everyone is different, so not everyone is going to want the same plain white walls
I like white walls because I have a lot of bold colourful artwork, and plain white walls work best for that.
Yeah because Green goes with everything…. 🙄
Gray and white nurseries are the bomb – I think there is a reason it’s so popular nowadays. I can be really calming and is much more practical than pink or blue.
My initial nursery was grey and white because we didn’t find out either. The floors and walls are made of wood, like a cabin feel, so there is warmth to the room. I added notes of yellow and pale teal as accents. I figured it was a base palate for our child as they grew to make their own. Pregnant with #2 and either way, the kids will be sharing a room for awhile. The rest of my house is much brighter but I enjoy how calming my son’s room is for us.
That sounds beautiful.
3 million? it maybe part of the castle but its their home, and its a bit biased to justify it by saying well William had it for their apartment in the same sentences. NONE of them should have it.
I don’t dislike them per se but they are quite parasitic with the tax payer money. There never seems to be any hesitation by the Royals to spend it.
They’re converting a 10 small bedrooms divided into units used for help, and turning it into a 5 spacious bedroom mansion. Basically a new build with constraints of a historical building. Plus they’re not going to cheap out on details (spring floor for yoga studio instead of plain wood)
Years back a local prison had a floating floor installed in the gym for the inmates. It cost one million and it lasted until a huge riot a year later and the floor got destroyed. I don’t know if it got rebuilt the same way. Two years later, the same prison brought in a kosher chef for some of the inmates.
There is so much jealousy, here and on DM. Frogmore Cottage is an historic property on the Windsor estate, we should be pleased that it is being upgraded and not being left to fall into ruin.
A gray and white nursery can be lovely if done correctly – and is also very “in” right now (check out any PBK catalog!). So I’m not surprised they are going with that color scheme.
I did laugh at the whole “rely on help from Doria.” We’ve heard that one before. Just hire the nanny already Sussexes. I can see maybe not wanting a nanny immediately, but especially as royal duties pick back up for both, they’re going to need more than Doria.
Of course, and I am sure that they are already in talks with someone. Nanny Maria was very carefully selected.
Blah. Meghan doesn’t wear colorful clothes, and it looks like she might not like colorful decorating either. A babys nursery doesn’t just have to be pink or blue, there are plenty of colors that could be used for both boys or girls. Green, yellow, purple or red would be cheerful colors better than gloomy gray.
Borrowed straight from Joanna Gaines and Christina Al Moussa’s design board. Someone watches too much HGTV. She needs to put in some color and watch Jonathan from Property Brothers, although he can neutralize it to death too sometimes.
She needs to do as she pleases, non?
Rt?! LOL
Not necessarily. I was recently house hunting, and every single one of the 30 somethings who’d put their house on the market had painted the walls grey. I personally dislike so much grey, but both my daughters did their nurseries in grey, and they are quite charming. If it’s a restful, serene grey, instead of “putty”, it can be lovely. My whole (new) house is depressing putty, and I’m about to start painting some rooms a warm white.
Tried yellow, and it came out tropical whorehouse…Not great at color…
our home’s walls were all newly painted grey before we moved in – don’t like it but also hate painting so…we have grey walls ! lol
Gray’s really in now, and definitely not just in nurseries.
PS did you see the newspaper article saying she’s the cause of drought because of her love for avocado toast? Like, that was the headline…
As someone said on twitter, now we know that there is literally nothing for which the Daily Mail will not blame Meghan.
I can’t wait for them to blame her for the mass extinction of the dinosaurs.
She has (almost) replaced Obama. Thanks, Meghan.
I went back and read that post on will and kate’s kitchen remodel. That kitchen was gorgeous. And I don’t care about defending these people. However, it very coincidentally happens that my husband and I are trying to buy a weekend house in upstate New York, and the market where we are looking is a buyer’s market, and we can’t afford a lot, so we are bargaining really hard to get a good price, so we are looking for every flaw. Anyway, long story short, the house we really want has one of those AGA stoves. It’s red and in great shape and it’s gorgeous. We looked it up and new it seems to retail for around $17K! The house isn’t fancy, but I guess the owners built the house to their tastes, and I guess they really liked to cook. The thing is, we don’t want it. AGAs have no dials, no settings you can change. You leave it one ALL THE TIME. Literally always. You move food from one chamber to another depending on what temperature you want. And the burners stay covered until you need them. It’s a whole new way of cooking. So just replace the stove and keep the beautiful kitchen, right? Nope! It’s a non-standard size at 58 1/2 inches. Literally nothing else fits there. You can get a Viking for $15K that is 60 inches, but if they have the stove close to the cabinets as I’m sure they do, that won’t fit. Everything else will be smaller and leave gaps. We are running up against this same issue. The kitchen in the place we are looking at is nothing nearly as nice as Anmer Hall, but it is well preserved from when it was built in the 80s and doesn’t need an immediate rehaul (unlike the bathrooms), but either we cook on this bizarre stove or we figure out a way to make a narrower stove look like it belongs in the same spot without redoing countertops and tiling and cabinets, which aren’t worth it. At the very least will and Kate would have had to redo one entire wall to change stoves. And at that point, if you’re going to remodel at some point, maybe may as well do it then…?
We dont own an AGA but a holiday home we have rented a few times does. Initially it was odd coming from electric cooker top and oven but we managed to make it work perfectly. Things took a bit longer but cooking slowly meant lovely soft meats from the oven. I will admit though that they had an extra two burner electric stove top which we used for veggies etc
If you have to keep the AGA you could always either insert a small electric/gas hob into the counter or buy a 1 or 2 burner induction hob.
AGA’s are great if you can be bothered with slower cooking.
For $15K less, I can just turn down the temp in my oven, too.
Just had a look as I missed it the first time. It’s was a lovely kitchen but a lot of tall people don’t get on with belfast sinks (they’re so low) and real wood worktops are a nightmare to keep looking nice and they’re not for people who like to use disinfectant products. £38k isn’t actually that much in the scheme of things. Near where I live people buy houses for just under a £1m and knock them down and rebuild the whole lot.
Yea but they’ll pay for it themselves.
Where are the AOC people? Shouldn’t we all be arguing that these people should keep their existing kitchens and have their income taxed at 90%? (I kid, but someone has to talk about the reality of the situation and the fact that rich people will leave the (any) country rather than pay super high rates of tax. Upper middle class people don’t want to leave the US. Truly wealthy people don’t care where they live.)
This is true there are an increasing number of French, Swedes etc looking to spend the winter in the Algarve to avoid taxes back home. Its a new development it used to be mainly British just there for the better weather and quieter life.
I’m painting my bedroom and gray and white is on the table for color schemes. The splash of color is pink.
I’m so excited for them.
Katie was the same person who insists harry fell in love with Meghan two years before they met when he was watching suits and then he publicly denied that in the interview, she basically said he was lying. She also said, Meghan was hell bent on a lace wedding dress. I’m sure she has sources in the Cambridge Camp, she’s known them for a long time but there’s really no point in believing her reports on the Duchess of Sussex when it’s evident she knows nothing.
I’m sideyeing the 3 million too though, but I do understand that unlike Anmer Hall frogmore cottage used to be an office space. Well at least it isn’t 18 million….
Yes, don’t believe Katie Nicholl.
Gray and white sounds dreary. That would depress me. If they want to be gender neutral, they could start out by abandoning the notion of associating any color with any gender.
I love gray! And it’s a child, so they’ll have plenty of pops of color once all the clothes and toys get in there.
We never found out the sexes with any of our children either. We got flak from everyone about that, although less with the last kiddo, as nearly everyone knew we weren’t budging by then. I’m glad to hear the Sussexes are going that route too.
Not going to lie, gray is one of my favorite colors. There’s SO many ways it can go from cool to warm, and it’s a great way to bring in other brighter colors that normally could overpower a room.
Paint is low in fume which makes sense as she’s pregnant, and everyone replaces their old boilers with the efficient ones.
“Eco-conscious” is a stupid buzz word the press added in the same sentence as the gadgets to force irony. Hardly eco-anything importing huge volume of tech gadgets all made from plastics constructed in bad working conditions in China
It’s impossible in this world to not have so many down-stream bad impacts. Like Eug saying no plastics for her wedding. I don’t think they said they’re being eco-conscious it was the press to get down votes in comments.
My bedroom is grey and white. I love grey. I think it’s clean without being boring like white or beige and can looks really cool and edgy or classic and minimalist depending on what you pair it with.
off topic but when I saw the header I thought it was Jennifer Garner lol
The white and gray nurseries are really in right now, so they’re following the trend. As for the yoga studio, all you need really is a mat to do yoga, you can do that in any room, why do you need a designated place?
Because everyone and their dog knows that DoS is a yogafile, that has given the sh!trags license to say literally A N Y T H I N G they like about this…..the more outlandish and ‘different’ the beter.
Nevermind, It takes discernment to recognize sh!trag make-believe tales.
I mentioned that my nursery is gray and white, but *looks around* my whole house is! We added a Sapphire blue sofa and chair for some color. Then, a few years later, we added an assortment of toddler toys in all sorts of bright colors!! Lol!!
Im sick of grey & white. It seems that every house I look at has this colour scheme for just about every single room and its always a dull boring grey. Houses in Scotland should NOT use this colour scheme, its grey enough outside without bringing it in lol
My bf just bought a house, we moved in together and the very first thing we did was paint the walls. It’s a really nice, pretty new, and large house, but it had dull gloomy gray walls in every room and looked boring and depressing until we got rid of that color scheme, and now it’s light, happy and looks beautiful
I know it’s fashionable at the moment, it doesn’t go with my possessions so it’s not for me, but it does look beautiful when done right, That said people are going OTT where I live. Houses being built with grey bricks, houses rendered in grey or painted white, drives changed to be grey, front doors replaced in grey!! Does that mean it’s here to stay or are there going to be a lot of dated looking houses in a few years.
Some one told me they were having a grey nursery and I was surprised how good it looked.
Ugh. Ugh. Ugh. GRAY in a baby nursery? Has she read about how certain colors stimulate a baby’s brain (but not too bright)??
She’s taking this muted “colors” thing way too far. And I like Meghan. But really this is ridiculous.
I like Meghan too, which is why I never believe anything written about her by gossip-merchants because if they dont know her, iddnt get the info directly from her or any member of their team, and didnt get the information from a NAMED reliable source, then chances are, the gossip merchants pulled it from their big fat old arses. Thats just commonsense.
My bedroom and studio are both painted grey. I love the color, I think its very soothing and sophisticated at the same time.
I think they will absolutely get a nanny . Thats not a critizism, but if Megs really wants to starts working soon after giving birth and with their tour to America already scheduled, they need someone wo will look after the baby during their engagements and that person ideally is someone the baby is familiar with, whether they take the baby with them or not.
As for all the hipster interior stuff – meh, there are more colourful options for gender neutral designs than grey.
While I’m a huge fan of neutral tones-(especially grey and white!) there are good reasons to use color in a child’s room. Infant sight, brain development and understanding of color is still developing after birth and using color in their room is a good way to help this development. That is one of the reasons primary colors are often used in schools/child care etc. its good for child brain development.
I’m a huge greige fan. My entire house is some shade of grey, white, black, or brown. I spice it up by using pops of color in my decor (right now that color is millennial pink). The nice thing about that is when I get tired of the color, I can just buy a new blanket or pillows and suddenly it’s a brand new room.
It boggles the mind that anyone with commonsense fails to realize that a home or nursery painted in grey and white, means that the owners/occupiers have a clean palette on which they literally can splash ANY OTHER COLOR they choose!!!
Jeebus!
Our nursery is grey and white as well and beautiful. The walls are grey and the wood trim and furniture are white. Once you add in the baby’s things it adds a nice pop of colour without it being too garish. I reupholstered our glider in a yellow patterned fabric, added a colourful crib sheet and changing pad cover, did pops of green with storage baskets and then displayed their books on shelves on the wall.
I’m extra tired after staying up with a baby that is a shit sleeper, but even so, I just can’t with the commenters writing multiple paragraphs to criticize a neutral colored room. 🙄🙄 my whole house is decorated in neutrals – grey, white, cream, beige. It’s peaceful and lovely. Did I actually read someone suggest brown walls or pops of red? 😵 now I’m off to drink all the coffee
I’m not sure why people buying the vegan angle again considering she’s not vegan. She only said that she ate vegan during the week while she was filming her show. Which turned into this big thing which was stupid because people ignored what they were doing when they got engaged cooking chicken but hey can’t let facts get in the way.
I read that Harry painted their cottage Pink for Meghan.
We won’t know what this childs nursery would look like.
Am I the only one nervous that “controlling all security tech” from their phones is just asking to get hacked? Seems too risky.
April Schmapril re: her due date.
Unless she’s having twins, there’s no way she’s only five months pregnant. That kid will be here end of February, mid-March, latest. Wager?
I believe that this baby or babies will be born end March or early April.
The Royal Marriage – brought to you by the Soho House. LOL.
Also, I did a gray/white/mint nursery and it came out gorgeous, so I can’t hate on the color scheme. We’re getting ready to move, and I really want my now toddler’s room to have lots of color though. He loves colors now.
That’s all I got out of this article, the neverending links to soho house.
Haha, that’s what came to my mind as well
Both my babies nursery’s have been grey and white! 😂 it’s very, very popular. Grey Owl is the wall color because it’s soothing AND as they age I don’t have to repaint the walls!!! Grey matches everything!!!
Didn’t Will and Kate claim to pay for that kitchen renovation privately?
Meaning, I guess, Charles paid for it?
Maybe Meghan should paint the walls avocado green, just because…
@ ZAZU-HA 🤣🤣 a “soft” avicado would be really pretty…but then I flashed back to the color schemes of the 70’s with avocado wall phones/refrigerators, orange shag rugs, dark brown macrame plant hangers…YIKES 🙃
I’m surprised no one is commenting on the fact that Meghan and Harry don’t want a nanny and are planning on Doria helping them out for the first couple of weeks? I love Doria and all, but there is no way I see this as sustainable. Not to mention, saying this now, then hiring a nanny later when she’s (understandably) overwhelmed is not going to look good at ALL. Better to be honest from the get go vs saying one thing, and doing another like the Cambridges.
They have not said they are not getting a nanny but understandably for the first few weeks Meghan and Harry want to look after their new offspring, with the help of Doria for the first few weeks by themselves for bonding purposes. This is because in the future their children will be spending a lot of time with nannies. You only have to look at Nanny Maria to see how much she has bonded with Kate’s kids, she is their second mother and Charlotte can already speak a bit of Spanish.
I helped a relative do their entire apartment in white, greys and yellows. It turned out beautifully. It wasn’t my taste but it was really nice.
I do agree about pops of color with that palette. I just think it’s strange for a baby nursery. Too trendy for my taste, but I’ve never been one to follow trends.
I hope taxpayers don’t have to cover the cost of the yoga studio. Basic maintenance and livability, fine. But not such frivolties.
Oh please!
Gray and white is so overdone, and the phrase “pops of color” is the new “moist.” I can see that regular people pick grey because it goes with so much and isn’t as difficult and doesn’t feel as tired to most people as does beige, but FFS, these two will have access to the best interior designers in the world and they’re going with a cliche? Yick.
I wager that Meghan will have her baby in March. I truly believe this. When I look at her she seems further along than they are saying. Security is a top concern. If they are putting in all these high-tech gadgets, then they better be concerned with getting hacked. We truly don’t know if this is true. They need to be careful with too much technology in their house.
“A grey and white nursery sounds so dull”. LOL! I didn’t go crazy decorating my kids bedrooms. The walls were off white the furniture was cherrywood and we had a mobile in the crib and some toys. The windows had custom drapes from the original owners of the house. They were nice, fairly neutral so I just kept them as is. I didn’t go all out with a theme and every accoutrement available. My kids are in their 20s now and both are interesting, smart, engaging young adults. Guess those dull bedrooms didn’t kill their spirits! 😂
The taxpayer should not cover the cost to renovate a residence for private use and that goes for the entire royal family. This is a wealthy family. Pay for your own lifestyle. Understand what a budget is.
The taxpayer should not cover the cost to renovate a residence for private use and that goes for the entire royal family. This is a wealthy family. Pay for your own lifestyle. Understand what a budget is. Buckingham Palace, which is supposedly held in trust for the nation by Liz, is in bad shape because they look at taxpayer funds as their personal piggybank to fund their lives.
Why don’t you ask for a referrendum on the Monarchy? In the meantime please understand that we have a Monarchy and its members are not going to live like you and I.