It's tough to find Jenny Lind cribs because they were drop side. I think they've stopped making all or most dropside cribs.

You can get non-drop-side Jenny Lind cribs several places. We got ours used at a consignment sale, but I think they have them at Babies R Us for around $120-$150.

We sanded ours and repainted it a kelly green for my son's nursery. I love it now, but the sanding it was a pain in the rear.

Last month I found this blog post, where instead of sanding, they used Kilz primer applied with foam brushes: http://armellejewelry.blogspot.com/2011/03/diy-ikea-rast-dresser-to-bedside-table.html

I've also read somewhere that you can get a spray-on primer.

Actually spray painting the crib isn't that hard. We used a krylon that is nontoxic after it cures a few days. We painted the crib pieces on newspapers outside on a sunny weekend. It took about two coats plus some touchups here and there. We used maybe 3-4 cans of spray paint.

I was wondering the same thing. Could something like this be primed and then spray painted? Does it have to be sanded. I have a kid-size rocking chair that I'm wanting to refinish.

Ikea's Sniglar is unfinished, but it's not a Jenny Lind. I think Spray primer and paint on a painted white Jenny Lind would work.

I have a white Jenny Lind that I'm planning to use spray paint primer and color on. I just did that to a rocking chair with lots of Jenny Lind style details on it, and it turned out great, so I'm hoping that the crib will too. :) I'll report back when I'm done (probably next week)!

My friend has one of these Sniglar cribs from Ikea and SWEARS by it.

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60091931

I just got done painting an old Jenny Lind style twin bed for my daughter's big girl bed, and sanding is not cool, I tried it for about a minute before giving up. I then used a spray-primer prior to painting it with a custom color. That being said...I recommend spray painting the entire thing. Putting a couple coats of spray-primer on was WAY easier than brushing 5-6 coats of paint on, if I were to do it over, I would have spray-painted the whole thing.

We purchased the IKEA Sniglar. While it isn't exactly a Jenny Lind buy it was 100% paint ready. I'm pretty thrilled with the result. We went with cream because our walls are bright green.

By spray primer, I am assuming you mean using a spray system to apply paint, correct? And not spray paint from a can (like for graffiti)?

We have a bright turquoise Jenny Lind crib (yes, drop side, but we fixed the side so that it couldn't move -- years before the drop-side controversy); Plain Jane on the UWS used to custom paint them, but they are now defunct...

If you don't like doing it, you can always send it to a paint shop to do I suppose.

So happy to see others with the same questions! I loved the reddish jenny lind recently featured, and remembered back when i looked at it online and said it wasn't the crib for us. What a coat of paint can do, id love to tackle this for baby #2 on the way but like many others have said sanding every nook and cranny is really not my idea of fun, if someone uses a spray primer and paint could you post a follow up?