Nursery Porn, Part I

You know this is what you've been wanting to see.

The nursery: she is done!

Thanks to the DDH's hard work over the past several months, we finally have a finished nursery, just in time for a certain T-Rex's arrival. Not that he'll actually be there overnight for awhile, but all his stuff needed a place to live. :-)

Let's take you back to the beginning. Originally, this room was sort of a storage-slash-guest-bedroom. The Roommate lived here for almost a year, and I wish I had a photo of what it looked like during his occupation. But here it is after we moved him out:

Ugly old Berber carpet, poorly painted dirty white walls, and not much else.

We pulled up the carpet, revealing the original hardwood floors:

And then we pulled up all the nails and staples and tack boards that had held the carpet in place:

And let me be clear: for all of this, when I say "we," I mean "the DDH."

Then he sanded:

You can see the belt sander he used in the bottom center
of the picture.

And sanded:

And sanded, all with his little belt sander and, in the corners and along the edges, by hand.

That was the longest and worst part, by far.

Then came the stain, three coats:

And the polyurethane:

We added to the baseboards to cover up a gap between the floorboards and the wall, and installed the little metal piece that seques the carpet in the hall into the room:

Now we were ready to paint!

But to see that, you'll have to wait for Part II.