A warm, nurturing room to welcome little bundles of joy home. One that will feel like it’s all theirs as they grow… we have a few ideas for getting it right.

Children grow up so quickly, so think about creating a nursery that you can easily adapt. The key here is in choosing smart staples that will cover a baby’s needs now, and save you needing to redecorate down the line. A baby cot that converts into a junior bed for the toddler years, an upholstered armchair chair for nursing that can become a reading chair for night-time stories, and a rug for a cosy, soft feel underfoot - ideal for crawling and playing on.

Being surrounded by calming colours will help stop sensory overload and create a calm space for babies – and tired parents, for that matter. Consider warm-neutral walls (as pure white can feel too stark) combined with classic white furniture. This will also offer more scope for accessorising the room now and adapting it as they grow. Children’s tastes, like your own, are bound to change – and they’ll voice it earlier than you think. A blank-canvas backdrop will allow you to add character through subtle colours and textured accessories, such as a rattan side table and shelves, baby blankets and toys.

New babies get an average of 14–17 hours of sleep over a 24-hour period, so we put plenty of care and attention into pieces for just that. Think soft, organic-cotton sleepsuits with easy fastenings and sleeping bags to keep them secure and tangle-free, but still with enough space to wriggle. Silky comforters and rattles for tiny hands are something they’ll be inseparable from in the early years, too – clinging onto them at naptime and bringing them along for walks in the pram. And when it comes to bathtime, there’s nothing like wrapping them up after in our bestselling hooded robes – they’re big enough for babies to grow into.