Montessori Nursery vs. Traditional Nursery

I have been using all my mental and physical energy on being pregnant and just getting through the day.  While most days I feel completely normal, days like yesterday simply kick my ass and remind me of my limitations.  This is why I have elected Aaron to plan for our child's future education, mostly there was no electing however, he finds this extremely interesting while I find eating healthy and sleeping to be my main focuses.  Education is Aaron's main focus when it comes to our little nugget, and since it should begin at dayone, I am thrilled he has taken it upon himself to research, and research and research.  How does this relate to our future nursery you might ask? Well, apparently, to my surprise it completely changes it. 

The Montessori education has become Aaron's education of choice, he reads books, and summarizes them for me, otherwise I'd probably just fall asleep.  When he explained to me how a "Montessori" nursery looks I gave him the most disgusted look, you want our baby to sleep on a mattress on the floor? All I could picture was those extreme poverty photos we see on National Geographic, with dirty mattress placed on mud floors.  (Side Note: When the baby is an infant it sleeps in a Moses basket on the mattress, after a few months it sleeps on the bed by itself, the bed isnt that high off the ground so if they roll off they wont get hurt but will learn the boundaries of their own bed.  Also, we've seen a lot of nurseries with rugs under the bed to cushion the fall which is probably what we will end up doing.  End Side Note.) But once I got a more modern visual approach I thought it was the cutest thing ever. Here is a little comparison of the 2 types of nurseries in debate:  

 

I didn't give much thought to the nursery before because I had a traditional nursery pictured in my mind with a crib, changing table, dresser and glider (I didn't know other options existed).  So when I saw the other option I was completely thrown off, even after thoughts of dirty mattresses left my mind.  I am not going to lie it took some time to come around to the idea of the Montessori nursery.  Its just so different.  But now the traditional nursery seems more aesthetically pleasing to an adult but as a child I would totally want to explore and play in the Montessori room.  And who are we really making this room for? Here are a couple of pictures from Sew Liberated a blog I have recently started to follow, she is a Montessori teacher, and gave a tour of her nursery with great explanations as to why things are placed the way they are placed and so forth.

I am so in love with this room (except the potty area, which we will be omitting from our nursery).  Its so clean and simple yet looks like a lot of fun for our baby.  I am really interested to hear what others think of this nursery! Have you ever seen this before? Do you know someone who is raising their children in this manner? Dont you just want to crawl around and explore?!