Well, part of it was that the crib had gone through 6 kids (we got it used), part of it was that it's a drop-side which, while ours works fine, has been outlawed, and part of it was that we painted the chair rail dark brown, decided to paint the dresser too, and didn't really want to paint the crib because it's more tedious. He's got so much other hand-me-down stuff, why not a new crib? :)