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started advocating for a more interactive approach: they stressed the importance of visual stimulation for children's development. As a result, colourful patterned wallpapers appeared on the market. The author of a 1900 article on nursery décor was concerned with the idea that spartan conditions with
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times, for the wealthy and mid-tier classes, a nursery was a suite of rooms at the top of a house, including the night nursery, where the children slept, and a day nursery, where they ate and played, or a combination thereof. The nursery suite would include some bathroom facilities and possibly a
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instructed the readers to never use a shaded room for a nursery and stressed the importance of ventilation. The author, Thomas Andrew, also suggested using two rooms for the nursery to move between them during the cleaning. He neither encourages nor warns against adding colourful objects into the
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discouraged organising a nursery in "any small and out-of-the-way chamber", proposing instead to prioritise children's comfort and health by selecting a spacious and well-sunlit room. She highlighted the importance of decorations, suggesting a blue colour palette, simpler furniture and pictures.
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little ornamentation have a positive impact on children's development, suggesting putting colourful pictures on the walls instead. At the same time, he warned against the excessive use of very bright colours in the night nursery where the child slept.
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Patton also wrote that a nursery should contain some medical supplies so that the nurse can tend to the child's ailment before the doctor arrives.
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Historically, European nurseries had little decorations and were away from visitors' sight. An article in the 1842 British
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years, or until a younger sibling is born, and the parents decide to move the older child into another larger bedroom.
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suggested covering the nursery walls with wood panels or washable paint, for hygienic reasons.
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A nursery is generally designated for the smallest bedroom in the house, as a
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Benn, R. Davis (1900). "Cecil Aldin and John Hassall. Art in the Nursery".
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Fictional portrayals of nurseries abound, for example in the writings of
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nursery, simply mentioning that they catch children's attention.
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requires very little space until at least walking age. In 1890,
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deal primarily with the United States and do not represent a
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The nursery can remain the bedroom of the child into their
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Nursery


bedroom
house
infant
toddler
Mary Eliza Haweis
Hermann Muthesius
Edwardian
nurse
nursemaid
baby
Jane Ellen Panton
teenage
cradle
crib
diapers
changing table
rocking chair
baby powder
medicine
Kipling
E. Nesbit
Mary Poppins

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