Nursery paint colors
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Top picks for the nursery
6 editor's picksNAMED SOFT PALE YELLOW
#FFF8B8 · LRV 92
Butter
Gender-neutral pale yellow — works for any nursery in any orientation.
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About nursery paint colors
Nurseries are picked early in pregnancy and lived in for the first three years of a child's life. Color choice tilts soft, calming, and slightly more grown-up than the cartoon-pastel nursery of decades past. The 2020s nursery is a softer, more sophisticated room: blushes, sages, soft blues, and the gender-neutral neutrals that grow with the kid.
The picks below skew light, soft, and easy to live with. Avoid saturated brights (overwhelming for small spaces and small humans) and skip the literal pink/blue divide if you're going for a room that ages well past toddler.
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