Nursery Time 1

My little sister came to slave for me visit over the holiday weekend and we turned my office into a nursery.  The Mister gave me full creative control over the design so I was (thankfully) free to run wild with my own ideas without considering his opinion in the matter.

I’m no fan of pink is for girls/blue is for boys so I wanted a gender neutral room.  We would like to have another baby in fairly short order so not having to go through all of this again was important to me.  I fell in love with this set from NoJo so that was the basis of the color scheme.  I purchased an espresso dark brown colored sleigh crib and dresser from Stanley Young America’s 4 Seasons line.  The other major pieces in the room are a 5×1 Lack bookcase from Ikea, 2 Floating Lack Shelves from Ikea, a Little Castle glider rocker in cocoa and a round storage ottoman from Target that will serve as a side table.

I wanted to use the brighter colors from the comforter set since my furniture was dark.  I love green but I thought doing the entire room in that color would be too subdued.  As much as I loathe yellow, I thought the brightness would play well of the darkness of the furniture and look more nursery like.

My sister was great to bounce ideas off of and we took the ideas that I had and ran with them.  After a lot of hard work, here are the intermediate results.

Crib

Animal Wall

Complete with Caramel the cat!

The thing that looks like border print in photos is actually a chair rail that we my sister slaved over.  A nice man at Lowe’s cut a large piece of thin wood into 3 inch strips for us.  We covered the boards with fabric, glued grosgrain ribbon onto the top and bottom and then nailed it to the wall.  I like that it gives more texture and depth to the room in person even though a border would have been easier to do.

Another project was the animal wall.  I was planning to buy a bunch of those vinyl paint wall stickers to do this when my sister suggested getting wood  cutouts from the craft store…much cheaper!  We painted them in a yellow that was darker and brighter than the wall color and then nailed them to the wall.  It looks sort of like wallpaper in the picture, but again in person it adds depth and texture.  I also wanted something fairly subtle.  I still need to find 2 more monkey cutouts, I ran out!

I still have to do a few small projects but the major work is done.  The window needs blinds and some dressing up.  The bedding set came with a little valence topper that I plan to use along with some blinds and possibly one long curtain panel.  I have a cute pendant light to hang from the ceiling instead of the plain light that is there now.  I also need to find something to go on the wall space behind the crib.  I have 3 nice 11×14 frames that are lacking pictures sitting in my closet.  I am planning a maternity/newborn photo session so the frames might just be placeholders for these pictures.

I am also in search of the perfect rug.  I want a 4 foot diameter round rug in green.  I think I found a good candidate on Ebay, just waiting for some color samples from the seller.  Then there are a few missing accessories like a changing pad and lamp for the dresser that I hope to get at my baby shower.  If not, I’ll just buy them myself.

So that is what I did with my Memorial Day “vacation”.  I’m exhausted!