The Nursery

It has always been a little dream of mine to actually have a nursery for my kids. With the boys, we lived in my parents' basement. Both started off sleeping in a pack-and-play in our room, and ended up in a makeshift room behind a curtain and some strategically placed book shelves in a different area of the basement. Needless to say, there was no nursery for the boys, but I was very excited to get to do a nursery for my little girl in our new house.

This week, Davey finished hanging everything in the room. The only thing missing in the pictures is our glider that Davey currently moves up and down the stairs from the living room to our bedroom each morning and night because it's the only seat comfortable enough to sit in to feed Bekah while I am recovering from the c-section.

When looking for a girly bedding set, I really wanted either pink and grey, or yellow and grey. I decided on yellow and grey when I found this bed set from Pottery Barn on Amazon (or was it ebay?). Needless to say, we didn't pay full price for it, which was great because it would have been over our budget in the store.

After picking our bedding we decided to paint the walls grey. My mother-in-law, Marie, and her friend, Gayle, came to visit for two days and help us paint. More like do the painting for us. While tossing around the idea of doing an accent wall, I mentioned that having a chevron wall would be a dream, but there is no way I would be able to do it or ask someone else to try. Gayle looked up some tutorials on Pinterest and did it for me! Awesome! It turned out SO neat! And it matches the chevron in the bedding.

We also painted the crib white, and the changing table and dresser yellow. Actually, Gayle did that for us too!  Thanks Marie and Gayle, we couldn't have done it all with out your help!

Browsing Pinterest can be dangerous when looking for nursery ideas, but I found this really cute pom-pom mobile that I fell in love with and wanted for the room. So, I found some tutorials and went to work on making my own! It took me a while, but I love the way it turned out.

The initials above the changing table were made by our friend Cora, who takes care of our babies while I work. They go perfectly with the room. Thank you Cora!

I love the way everything looks. It's the only room in the house that is painted and put together. It's my happy place. It makes me smile just to walk in there.