Kate Middleton Baby Bump, Due Date [PHOTOS]: Pregnant Duchess Preps Small, Modest Cottage Nursery, 'Extravagant' Kensington Palace Plans?
With just under three months left before giving birth to the future heir to the thrown, the Duchess of Cambridge is reportedly prepping a "humble" nursery at Kensington Palace's Nottingham Cottage with her husband Prince William. As of now, it looks like the royal baby's first home will be the two-bedroom house where the Duke and Duchess currently reside, but they do have an impressive 20-bedroom apartment in the works. Reports claim that the very pregnant Kate has bigger plans for her new home.
A source told Us Weekly that the royal couple will welcome the prince or princess into their cottage with a modest nursery prepared.
"They have a small nursery prepped, but it's humble," the source close to the royal couple said. "Kate felt it wasn't worth the money to go all-out."
This insider also said that, though the nursery will be ready, Kate wants to be very close with her baby.
"For the precious first weeks, Kate wants the baby to sleep in their room," the source said.
Though they will be closer in their cottage, their apartment at Kensington Palace will become their main home, so the nursery is probably going to turn out more elaborate. The source said that the plans for this baby room are extravagant but does not go into more detail. The source said, "[Kate] is keeping it a surprise, even to family. It's beautifully decorated, and there has been some involvement from an artist."
How do you think these nurseries will end up looking like? Well, London's Grosvenor House has decided to give the Duchess some ideas for her nursery. The luxury hotel hired British nursery firm Dragon's of Walton Street to construct and design a nursery fit for the future royal. The managing director of Dragon's had this to say about the nursery:
"We wanted to create that really peaceful feel, because when you're traveling with a baby, one of the things you've got to do is send all the signals about "It's bedtime! It's naptime!" Doing that in a strange environment can be quite challenging, because they pick up on the energy of traveling-we wanted to create a sort of little oasis in that room, so that the mother would feel like she could withdraw, look after her baby, and have really special times and special memories. So that's why we went with very pastel colors, and then in this room we already had this palette of raspberry and green, so we wanted to piggyback on that colorway."