The Washington Post

Soon after I became pregnant with my second child, I realized we had no room for a dedicated nursery. We were two years into the pandemic, and the guest bedroom was masquerading as my husband’s office. The living room had morphed into a makeshift playroom. And my 2-year-old son’s nursery was doubling as a guest room.

Because of the lack of space — and my experience with my impossibly nocturnal first child — I decided I should just keep my baby at arm’s length, so I decided to create a nursery corner in the main bedroom. I didn’t want to spend a lot of money on this, though, or make any big structural changes; I knew the baby would quickly outgrow the space. So we turned the wall opposite our bed into a nifty nursery nook.

If, like me, you have been pondering ways to add a nursery corner to your bedroom but