Friday, November 9, 2012

Nursery Porn, Part III

The floor and the walls looked great. The crib looked great. The closet had tiny baby clothes in it.

But really, the nursery was still just an empty room with a crib in it.

The DDH and I plundered other rooms in the house to provide a shelf/changing table, bedside table, and rocking chair. We hung up the decor pieces that matched the crib bedding (the MIL bought us the entire set). We completed a few other decorating projects. We made no fewer than four trips to Home Depot to get the blinds cut down to the right size for the window.

And so, without further ado, the grand finale!

Before:





After:



Before:


After:




Bring on the nursery porn!

The crib, complete with fuzzy dino mobile and sweet dino wall decals:
 

The MIL and Step-Sister In Law painted the letters and had them on the mantel at the baby shower. Now they're above the windows with the awesome stegasaurus valances and the way-more-trouble-than-they-should-have-been blinds.


The SSIL also made this ribbon for me to wear at the shower. It now adorns the door so everyone knows what's within.


Forgive my truly awful phone pictures; the battery on my real camera is dead and I can't find the charger.

This is the wall opposite the door, with the changing table station, the rocking chair, and the night table.


The table we stole from the guest bedroom; the finish almost exactly matches the crib! It has a cute little slanted shelf underneath on which I've put a bunch of board books. The majority of our children's and YA books are on the built-in shelves in the guest room.

The rocking chair was actually in the DDH's nursery when he was a baby. It's not the most comfortable for long-term sitting, but it serves the purpose.

And more little dino decals!


So the story behind this ugly but really functional piece of furniture: The MIL's husband worked at Home Depot for many years. One of his coworkers built this and another piece for use in the tool department where they worked. It was a storage cabinet/workstation, and it's just unfinished wood with plexiglass on top.

The coworker retired. He didn't want Home Depot to keep the pieces, which he had made himself with his own materials, but he didn't really have any use for them. So he gave them to the StepFather In Law, who gave them to us, because we are furniture magpies.

Eventually the DDH may refinish it, but he is understandably sick of sanding and staining right now. So for now, it's just unfinished wood. But all the shelves are fully adjustable to different heights, and it's about the right height for a changing table. So yay!

I have the changing pad on top (secured per safety instructions). That blue box on top is actually a tissue box covered in duct tape; it holds a bunch of cloth wipes (aka t-shirts cut to wipe size with pinking shears). The green basket holds cloth diapers; the basket below it has receiving and swaddling blankets, and the two below that have mittens and hats. The wooden clementines box has burp rags, and the blue plastic and black cloth drawer units hold a variety of random baby things--diaper cream, Lansinoh, pacifiers, etc.


Yes, we have the canvas wall art that matches the bedding, valances, lamp, and wall decals, too. He's the first grandbaby on both sides, okay?


Do you not just love that wooden t-rex pull toy? Mom found it on Amazon. The lion and dog in the rocking chair are mine from when I was little.
 


The closet is much fuller than in Part II, isn't it? Still pretty organized, though! I'm on the lookout for either a brown-and-blue or dinosaur shower curtain or other fabric to hang up eventually.


A few more pictures:




There's one more project for the wall over the changing table, but since it's only about two-thirds done and there's no guarantee it will be complete before T-Rex arrives and the room stops being so clean and organized, I figured I'd better go ahead and post these now. ^_^

So that's it! The culmination of all our the DDH's hard work! Isn't it gorgeous? It is absolutely the only room in the house that is even remotely designed, coordinated, painted, etc. I already told you the crib is the only Purchased New piece of furniture in the house (ok, fine, other than our desk chairs).

Clearly T-Rex is a First Baby. My apologies, Subsequent Children, that your living spaces were never this totally awesome.

But for now? So happy.

Okay, I cannot get over the adorableness of this lamp. Or the pull-toy, for that matter.


THE END!

3 comments:

  1. I love that lamp! How cute! Does the pull toys little arms wiggle when it's pulled? Cuz that would be adorable. :-)

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    1. The whole thing wiggles! His tail wags and everything. It's the best.

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