Nursery Updates

We finally did a few more things to the nursery.  I only have one small project left, and then everything that I wanted to do is complete.  Only about a year in the making :)  

I pinned this "announcement" on Pinterest a long time ago.  My mom cross stitched all of ours, but I knew I wanted something a little more modern (not that I don't like mine).  Aaron put it together a while ago, and we just now got around to printing it.

We found this print at the DIY fair near our house this summer (before we knew we were having a girl).

We also wanted to frame her announcement that went out to friends and family.  

This collage is actually in the living room, but I wanted to show the end result.  We love it!  The large print we ordered is currently being framed and will go above our couch.

I'll try to remember to take a few full room photos once I finish the lamp shade project in the nursery.  I plan to do it at some point before going back to work.  Maybe I'll enlist my mom's help when they are here next :)

Painting

What a crazy weekend!  Friday we went to Lowe's right after work to buy paint for the two rooms.  We woke up bright and early on Saturday to start.  The rooms had already been cleaned the previous weekend so now it was just a matter of moving a few things around to paint.  We flew through the first room, or so it felt.  Then we hit a wall, but powered through the first coat of the nursery.  I was so tired after and took Wally out to the backyard to let him play and me relax.  By then, it was dinner time, so I showered and then we went to get dinner.  We really did NOT want to keep going when we got home after 8pm, but I just wanted to be done and not have to worry the next day.  I made it through what I had to do by 10pm.  Aaron ran out of paint with just a half a wall left to go....so we went to bed with plans to finish in the morning.  After a long Sunday of cleaning, errands, lunch with family, etc., we finally were finished!  Vacation can't come soon enough :)  

Here are a few before and after pictures of both of the rooms.  I really need to figure out how to work Photoshop collage...but Aaron is gone tonight and I can't figure it out :)  Someday!

Guest room before (white)

Guest room after (blue)

Nursery before (light blue)

Nursery after (cool grey)

Nursery Ideas

Since I'm getting so close to the 2nd trimester (tomorrow!), I've really started looking at nursery items and thinking about how we should decorate.  We are currently "debating" which room to make the nursery.  Our current office is bigger and I originally wanted that as the nursery.  But after we talked about it, the guest room now has to function as guest room and office.  Maybe Aaron is right that we need to flip the rooms.  Although that means that he then needs to paint two rooms...notice I said "he"? :)

We have a bookshelf from IKEA that we've had forever that has really cute orange shelves.  That became my inspiration for orange accents.  Originally, I was thinking about painting a wall orange as well, but now I'm leaning against that.  Here is the latest color scheme I'm liking.  (Btw, this website is awesome...http://design-seeds.com/).  I think I'd want to do the walls either the second or third color.  We'll keep the trim white.  And I found a few gliders that are in the slate color (fourth color down).

The gliders and ottomans are by far the MOST expensive items we'll need to get.  From what I've read from other bloggers, getting a comfy one is completely worth it.  I'm leaning towards the one in the top right and then getting the cheap IKEA rocker for our bedroom.  I'm guessing that we'll keep the baby upstairs with us for at least a little while and thought this chair might be helpful.  We'll see though.  I might decide it's unnecessary.

And next, I've been checking out cribs.  We've both decided we want something a little more modern and boxy looking.  Also, I found a low dresser on Craig's list that we are checking out tomorrow.  This would double as a dresser/changing table.  The room is small and we don't want to overcrowd it.  Plus, I haven't really seen a changing table that would fit the rest of the style of the room.  I'm leaning towards the top two cribs only because I don't know that I like adding another wood color to the room with the bottom of the crib on the bottom right.

I've also found some cute Etsy prints that I want to either purchase or have Aaron make in Photoshop (they're inexpensive so not too expensive to buy...we'll just see how ambitious Aaron gets).  I'd like to make a few pillows to tie all of the colors together.  I think we'll just do a fitted sheet rather than a whole bedding set.  They are so expensive and considering I wouldn't use the bumper, I just don't think it's worth it for me.  And I'd like to either find a rug or piece a small one together from Flor.  Now that I type it all out, it seems like a lot!  I think all of the accessories will come together fine...Aaron won't really have too much of an opinion there.  The furniture is another story :)  But he likes what I've been debating between so far, so hopefully we'll be able to agree (the joys of a husband who actually cares about design! ;) ).