Baby furniture. What is everyone doing? FTM and trying to figure out if it’s worth investing in very expensive nursery furniture. We were looking at the Natart furniture collection and the Silva collections. These both come in at about $2000-$2400. The furniture is high quality and grows with the child. Alternatively I could go the lower end route at get everything for like $800. Is that wise? I hear horror stories about low quality and paint chipping from the baby teething on the crib.

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Go to IKEA. Save some money and put it in baby’s account.

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For our first one we went all out and ordered everything from RH. 2nd one repurposed it, 3rd one we became smart and bought from Amazon, target and etc.

It is hard to not go all out on your first child.

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Over 9 years ago, around $8k I believe

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Honestly kids are expensive enough. Do yourself a favor and go to Buy Buy Baby for a baby furniture set. $12 on amazon you can do the gummy piece around the top of the crib if you’re worried about chips. My kid’s crib looked like a beaver attacked the top. So I wish I would’ve got the gummy rail deal.

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We did Room & Board. It was expensive but we love it and plan on using the dresser for years.

Oooooh I’ve not heard of this one. Will check it out.

Everyone I spoke to said the quality of the furniture didn't matter to the kids. It really is just for the parents. If you have destructive kids, they will break things no matter how quality it is. So save the money and buy things as they grow. Needs change.

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