Nursery

The nursery is where Wendy, John, and Michael Darling sleep in the story of Peter and Wendy, and is where the story begins and ends. In some adaptations of the story, such as the 1953 Disney film, George is fed up with the stories that have made his children less practical, and he angrily declares that Wendy has gotten too old to continue staying in the nursery with her brothers, and will have to have a separate room by the next night as her first step in growing up. In another, he instead screams at Wendy that she will begin etiquette lessons the next morning along with Wendy having a separate room from her brothers.

It is typically depicted as a large, sometimes spacious, room with three beds; sometimes, a doghouse is put into the room as well for Nana to be comfortable in. Stage presentations use a tall French window to facilitate Peter and the other children flying in and out. If at first viewing the nursery from the outside, it is typically viewed from a gabled dormer on the house's roof.

In Victorian and Edwardian times, for the wealthy and middle classes, a nursery was a suite of rooms, usually at the top of a house, made for the purpose of caring for a family's children. Sometimes, this would include the night nursery where the children slept, and a day nursery where they ate and played, or a combination thereof. The nursery suite would include some bathroom facilities and possibly a small kitchen. Like in Peter Pan, children who became too old to continue their care in the nursery are assumed to have got a separate room when they became old enough to leave. In the Victorian and Edwardian household, the children's quarters were referred to as the nursery, but the name of the responsible servant (or servants) had largely evolved from 'nurse' to 'nanny'. The Nursery Maid was a general servant within the nursery, and although regularly in the presence of the children, would often have a less direct role in their care, unlike how Nana is portrayed as being very much involved in the movie. The nursery maid reported to the nanny (or nurse) and assisted her in taking care of the children of the employer's family, her duties including tidying and maintaining the nursery, lighting the fires in the nursery during wintertime, and carrying meals, laundry, and hot water between the nursery, kitchen, and scullery. It was a junior role for young girls in real life, working under the supervision of the experienced and usually older nanny. Nursery Maids typically wore a uniform, similar to the other maids in the household. In 1845, for instance, the satirical magazine Punch published a guide to domestic servants in which it suggested that any girl could undertake the duties of a Nursery Maid, as every girl had the requisite training of "snubbing and slapping" either her own siblings, or the siblings of other people. Domestic service agencies supplied nursery maids and sometimes gave basic training, for which popular manuals were also published.

It is unknown if Mr. Disney created a floor plan for the nursery when he made the 1953 movie, or how big such a room would be in real life, but from what is shown in the movie it is quite enormous as aforementioned.