Monday, November 26, 2012
View from up here...
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| The view from up here...can you see my toes? Cuz I barely can!! |
I was totally off the grid for the holiday weekend and I have to tell you...it was pretty amazing. I barely got on Facebook, Twitter or Blogger {which all of you know is a rarity for me!} but as I told y'all before...my family came into town!
I am SO thankful to have parents who are willing to drive down to visit and help me complete a laundry list of projects {in addition to cooking a delicious Thanksgiving meal}.
And when I say laundry list...y'all...I feel bad with the amount of stuff we had to get done in 4 short days! But you will be happy to hear{and see} that the nursery is almost completely finished!
So without further ado....here's just a teeeeny tinnnyyy sneak peak into the nursery.
Bedding....CHECK
Lighting.....CHECK
Closet....CHECK
Dresser....CHECK
Accent Wall....CHECK CHECK CHECK!!! {This is my favorite part}
The picture here to the left you can see the bedding a little and our amazing mobile that J's mom found at Pottery Barn Kids {they are little elephants with wings....completely adorbs} and it's even on a wooden arm so none of that junky plastic look! We really wanted to focus on creating a nursery that was soft and relaxing...and ultimately, I have always said, I want this to be an adult room that accomodates a baby. I really wanted Hudson to be able to grow into this room and lets face it....not all the baby bedding these days is conducive to that. Now I know he isn't going to want to keep the little lambs, elephants and other baby type items, but by keeping all the colors soft and neutral, it is a room he can definitely grow into.
For lack of a better word...I wanted a CHIC nursery. Clean lines, but not modern. Neutral colors, but not boring. I'm not the type of person to have a "baby on board" sticker in my car window, or loud obnoxious cartoons all over every inch of the room. A nursery {like a bedroom} is a place for sleep, a place to relax....I think...after much hard work...this nursery is exactly that.
Now...for my pride and joy {only a sneak peek though...}
This is an idea I snagged from Pintrest and ever since I saw it, I just couldn't let it go. Since we started planning everyone kept asking..."What is your Theme" for the nursery and I really couldn't tell you. Like I said, I hate the kitchy chachski items so I knew I didn't want cartoons or animals really.
That's when I found this image and I fell in love. Why not have an alphabet centered room? Lots of different typography and focus on the amazing lines our letters create? Now, for Hudson's room...I had to tone it down a little, her images' frames were much more ornate and feminine than I wanted so I focused on clean lines and really stuck with "less is more". I found these amazing letters on Etsy, they're from Alphabet Boutique, this made it much easier because the letters were already cut into assorted sizes and fonts and came with letters A-Z with an "&". My favorite letter? The "O" because it is cut to look like a button. The only downside? We had to paint all the letters {thank youuuuu Daddy!}
The dresser seen here {well the edge of it} was a craigslist find for only $125! When we bought it, it was an ugly oatmealy cream color and was distressed. I was originally leaning towards painting this dresser to add a pop of color {we were thinking Robin's Egg Blue} but after much discussion, J and I just couldn't see it in the room....so it went white to match the Jinny Linde crib that I couldn't live without. The white totally compliments everything in the room and has enough detail to be beautiful but not enough to be "girly"...plus this is a piece that can grow WITH him! We opted for a dresser instead of a changing table because let's face it....they aren't practical. You use them for maybe two years...three tops, then they sit in your garage until you have another baby and I don't know about y'all but we really don't have the garage space to store a large furniture piece like that. And realistically, we didn't have room in the nursery for another piece of furniture. We chose one of the smaller bedrooms upstairs knowing that it would be a nursery as soon as the house was built. The dresser was just something I wasn't going to compromise on....it's 12 drawers and every single one of them is packed full of baby clothes...there is no way we could have had a place for all that stuff without a dresser. Yet another reason why we opted for the dresser instead of a changing table-there is hardly any storage space in a changing table and let's be honest...Hudson already has as much clothes and J and I combined, pretty much, so we really needed that storage!!
Also in this picture you can see a little bit of the bedding, now the American Academy of Pediatrics says no bumpers because baby could roll into it and suffocate. We made one anyways and will probably use it until he starts moving around in there. At first, babies are pretty immobile so I'm not too worried about it. We chose to do the ties in the ticking accent to give it a little umph. The only other place we used the ticking {navy and cream striped fabric} was the crib skirt which you can't really see from that angle. We did a thin quilt with yarn pull throughs and called it a day. I am absolutely in love with all of the bedding and the fact that my mom and I spent hours working on it, is something I really cherish. It is something really special for her Grandbaby that I can tell him when he grows up....
So there you have it....a sneaky peek of Hudson's nursery. The closet pieces are done and organized, all his baby clothes are washed and either folded or hung and organized by age and now all that's left to do is to find my finishing touches...those things that make his room...his room.
Hope you like it! Post any questions below...or you can pop back to my original post here to see the pattern and up close views of the fabrics we chose.
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love love love the crib! It looks like my old crib <3 So excited to see more of the nursery. Your interior decorating style is amazing!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lee Anne! It is torture not posting more pictures but I want it to be decorated perfectly before I share it with the world :) and thank you...you are too sweet!!
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