It's Great To Be Home

I know I promised you guys a design board but my Photoshop skills were not up to the challenge today – so instead I’ll just give you a tour of what I (currently) have planned!

The baby’s room will be the bedroom that is closest to our room – about 7 steps door to door.  Until Sunday, it looked like this:

Mmm, lovely.

After we cleared out the room (I’m thinking about possibly a garage sale?) it looked like this:

(By the way, I love the crib in person – so pretty! And it came with the toddler rail that you can see in the corner, score!)

Much better!!  And now the curtains are gone, so you can mentally erase those.  :)

Here’s the general layout that I have planned (ignore the colors in the floor plan):

And to shed some light on what you’re looking at . .  .

• the door to the hallway is on the bottom right, the door to the jack ‘n jill bathroom is on the right-hand wall, the window is on the wall across from the hallway door, and the closet is on the left-hand wall
• the crib will be directly across from the door and under the window (we will have cordless blinds so don’t fret)
• the dresser / changing table is on the right-hand wall
• the glider and ottoman are in the bottom left-hand corner
• a low bookcase is on the left-hand wall

But now onto the fun stuff!!  I’m in love with chevrons and somehow they are nowhere to be found in my entire house – but no more.  Check out this fabric, which will be floor to ceiling curtains on either side of the window / crib:

LOVE!  I’ve received a fabric sample and the pink is a lovely coral-y pink that will look fab.

I’m thinking of having a plain or very simple fitted crib sheet with a crib skirt similar to this one with the pompom fringe in solid colors – either pink with orange pompoms or vice versa.

I’m going to use my childhood dresser (that you saw in a photo at the beginning of this post) as the changing table, and I’ve been wanting to paint it a fun tangerine shade like this:

My dresser also has raised detailing but I’m not sure whether I’ll highlight it.  And I’m debating between snazzy pink knobs from Anthropologie, ring pulls or an array of mismatched knobs.

I would love to do a setup similar to this for the wall above the changing table:

And remember that animal print fabric I showed you last week?

It’s going to make several appearances around the room – maybe some pillows, as a background in artwork, and in these fun little baskets that I couldn’t resist buying last night:

Aren’t they so cute??  I’m thinking they’ll be good for organizing the top of the changing table.

As for a rug, I was originally wanting to go for a crazy pattern, or lots of color, but lately I’ve been thinking that a simple white or off-white shag rug might be just the ticket:

And now onto the glider.  I was adamantly opposed to the traditional looking glider and wanting something more modern and chic-looking . . . but in the end I fell in love with the comfort and practicality of this glider / recliner combo (in a slightly different, non-textured fabric!).  What pushed me over the edge into buying this one was the fact that the back was actually tall enough for me to lean my head against the back cushion – I’m apparently too tall for all the cute gliders and my head just dangled in the air instead of leaning against the cushion and that simply would not do.  And this baby reclines!!  Sold.  This glider may not win any awards for looks but I cannot wait to test it out with our little girl!

I’m a pouf-lover and I knew I wanted poufs somewhere in the room.  I originally thought of hanging them above the crib (exactly like the photo below) but I think that might look too busy/crazy with the curtains we’ll have going on, so now I’m thinking of hanging them in the corner above the glider.  I love the way these are clustered together and the varying shades of pink – I hope to be able to replicate the look pretty closely!

When I was a kid I had a ridiculous amount of stuff that I wanted to display – and while I know that an infant won’t really collect things and need oodles of display space I like the idea of having a bookcase for books (duh), stuffed animals, and whatever other random things might start to pile up.  This Ikea Expedit bookcase will go on its side next to the glider and will have a great surface for a lamp or book for those late nights that I know are in my future.

Ooh, and I recently saw these and thought it might be fun to paint a pair of them some fun color and attach them to the bottom of the bookcase – both for looks and functionality.

And last but not least, I saw this photo on Pinterest this morning and just about died.  The nursery itself is gorgeous but what really caught my eye was the animal artwork above the crib (which turns out to be Marimekko fabric!).  I had originally planned on making some artwork out of the animal fabric, but now I’m dying to paint an oversized graphic of the animals from the fabric on this giant scrap piece of plywood that I’ve had lying around, and then lean it (secured to the wall, of course) above the bookcase.  Wouldn’t that be awesome??  Here’s to hoping I can pull it off.

So that’s the plan for our baby girl’s nursery!!  I’ve gone through about a zillion design plans before getting to this one so who knows how many more times it will change before it’s finished – but that’s part of the fun, right?  :)

P.S.  I’m currently planning on keeping the walls tan, but I might wind up painting them a pale pink once I get everything else into place and get an idea of how it’s going to look – we’ll just have to see how it goes!