Ttc will be coming soon and I plan to not find out the sex of future babies. However, I am a big planner by nature. For moms/dads that didn’t find out the sex did you find it hard to plan? Also what nursery theme did you do? Thanks in advance 
I am pregnant with my first and we will not be finding out the gender. (I want to,hubs does not) I was thinking a very soft teal or buttercup yellow for the nursery. The two colors go well together to me and are calming.
http://projectnursery.com/2015/04/gender-neutral-nursery-design/#_a5y_p=3619791
We found out that our baby was a girl at the 20 week scan but it didn’t really make much difference since I’m not a big one for colour-coding and gender-labelling little babies anyway.
[name_f]Pink[/name_f] definitely dominated in the presents we got from others, but the things that I bought for her myself are all different colours: pink, blue, purple, orange, green, red, yellow, grey. It was not difficult at all to get things that I felt didn’t scream ‘girl’ or ‘boy’ (although that’s obviously open to interpretation). I would have bought exactly the same stuff for a boy and I’m planning to reuse all her nice clothes for our next child regardless of sex.
We don’t have a nursery yet since we’re still in our one-bedroom flat, but planning to move sometime this year. Not sure what we’ll do with her room when she finally gets one, but probably just leave it white and use the furniture/bedclothes/rugs/curtains for colour - a lot of different, bright colours. I think using white paired with a variety of bright colours always looks fun, cheerful, childlike and totally gender neutral.
[name_m]Just[/name_m] wanted to add that if you look in shops in the ‘unisex’ section you often get a really boring selection. Seems like everything is light brown, grey, white, pale green, pale yellow. Which is fine if you like that, but pale is really not my style.
I like my baby to be in bright colours, either plain or with fun, bold patterns/pictures. In such a case you generally have to buy things that have been meaninglessly designated for boys or girls. Often the ‘boys’ clothes are a bit more fun - more variety of colours, brighter, etc. The girls’ section can often be a washout of pale pink with little variety, and also a lot of the clothes can be impractical for a baby, uncomfortable-looking or needlessly tailored to look like adult women’s clothes as if a baby girl was a different shape to a baby boy.
This is not true of all shops, though.
Hear hear to everything @jackal said!
I’m 36 weeks pregnant, and we haven’t found out the gender. For us, it was very easy. Yellow is my favourite colour, and my husband also likes yellow, so we have a yellow, grey and white nursery. Our pram is yellow and our carseat is aqua, which is what we would have done even if we knew the gender. We have a mixture of coloured clthes, and as we both despise bright pink, it was very easy to stick to colours that can be used for either gender. We do have a few pale pink onsies, but I’m of the opinion that boys can wear pink, just as girls can wear blue
No children yet, but I am not a fan of gender-labeling/stereotyping. I want to find out the sex of our future children because I’d go crazy not knowing, but don’t plan on sharing.
Currently I’m liking the yellow and grey combos or brown and cream.
When we were pregnant with our first I bought just a ton of plain white bodysuits. We got tons of hand-me-down and gifted girly clothes anyway but I think with some little gender neutral pants or whatever, and a couple white/off white sweaters, white’s all ya need. Bonus: you can bleach out those pesky baby stains.
As for nursery colours, we went with yellow. But if I were to do it now without knowing the gender I’d just keep it white & use art and natural materials (wicker baskets, wood mobiles etc) and furniture for colour.
Stroller and carseat were black. Our bouncer was a jungle one.
I always liked blues for boys or girls. My mother didnt know if she was having a boy or a girl so she painted my nursery mint green, which remains one of my favourite colours. I really like grey as a neutral, and if I were designing a gender neutral nursery, I’d pick grey and mint/aqua/teal.
I felt a huge amount of over-pinkification with my daughter’s first two years, and we’re moving away from that now (she’s nearly 5). My daughter and I pick out whatever clothes she wants from the girls or boys section and her room is no longer a pink and purple explosion. She has white, grey and a soft raspberry meld (http://www.wilko.com/wall+ceiling-paint/wilko-durable-emulsion-paint-raspberry-meld-25ltr/invt/0262407) with black accents. She gets toy cars and garages, or tool kits alongside her dolls. She remains very girly, because thats who she is, but we feel a lot more freedom in raising her this way. We stopped discounting half of a store’s clothes or toys just based on who the aisle header says they’re for and she chooses things that she likes. It feels great.
I’d still find out the sex of a new baby, just because I couldnt not know! But it wouldnt impact my planning a whole lot as I’d probably design the nursery in blue anyway and just buy the clothes I like
My wife and I didn’t find out our baby’s gender until she was born.
We had initially painted the nursery a sage green, then I had a lapse in judgement decided I didn’t like the green and painted the room red. Then I had another lapse in judgement (really nice way for my wife to say pregnancy craziness) and we painted the room gray. I hated that and so did my wife so we went back to the sage green. We left the furniture white and had a wonderfully comfortable wooden rocker that has rocked many babies in my wife’s family given to us by my mother in law.
We have added the odd “girly” things and the odd pink thing but we don’t want to sway her either way. Besides she doesn’t really comprehend the colours in her life anyway.
We are having a girl but I knew before we knew what we were having that once we’ve moved out of our 1 brd apt and she has her own room I wanted it to be a magical forest theme. So that’s what I geared our baby registry to - and even though I requested things to be purple instead of pink my family ensured a pink-splosion for our house. (My cousin has two boys and so my aunt and her convinced my mom that as a baby girl you just “HAD” to have pink - I’m not ungrateful for the cool home knit blanket etc, but seriously… did it have to be bubblegum pink?)
I think there are a couple of things to think about when you are “designing” a nursery. [name_f]Do[/name_f] you want a theme? [name_m]How[/name_m] far do you want to take that theme? Yes unisex (the beige and grey world) can be really cool as a starter base but consider what other colors or elements you might like? (I choose the magical forest because I wanted to be able to have toadstools, foxes, gnomes etc… now that she’s a girl a unicorn or fairy might make an appearance maybe more flowers but really it’s probably going to eventually be grey walls with white or black tree stencils etc…
Keep in mind that newborns react more and are more stimulated by color contrast than the actual color scheme… so do what feels right for you and consider unique options like painting a color contrasting geometric design on the ceiling (which your baby will eventually be staring at a lot - once they can focus that far) something as a cool way to make it your own instead! (PS: unisex doesn’t have to be limited to grey, beige, yellow and green… red walls for example could be girlied up with ruffly white and pink curtains or made more masculine with a navy and white stripe… it’s really up to you!)