The design tricks that turned my cluttered spare room into a baby-ready nursery

A bedroom that had previously been used for storage, and later as an office, is now a dedicated nursery. Composite: Alun Callender/The Guardian; Stylist: Zan Morley

Stephanie Kinnear, 34, who works in marketing, lives in a rented two-bedroom flat in Walthamstow, east London, with her husband, Andy, 35.

“Our little flat has two bedrooms – one where we sleep and the other that we always just used for storage, and then as Andy’s office when he worked from home,” says Stephanie. “It had a desk for him and two wardrobes where we stashed everything we couldn’t fit anywhere else. Other than that, there were piles of books and boxes. To call it a home office would be being kind – it was basically a junk room.”