One More Week

Only one more week as a family of three. The countdown is on! So, I thought I would post a few pictures of the nursery. I'm not a huge fan of themes in rooms so we went more with colors, Navy Blue and Grey. It turned out great! We got the crib off of Craigs List. I didn't want to buy a brand new crib and then turn around and paint it. With a little patience, I finally found one that I liked! We got it home, sanded it, primed it, and painted it with homemade chalk paint. You can find the chalk paint recipe here on this blog.  It worked perfect!

 

 

My mom sewed the bumper pad and the crib skirt. I found the fabric at our local Hobby Lobby and she recovered Abram's old bumper pad and sewed a new skirt. I. Love. It. The birch deer silhouette above the crib came from GroopDealz and we stained it. I wanted to have his initials in the room somewhere but wasn't too sure how to incorporate them into the room. We had some old pallets laying around so I had David do this for me...

 

 

 

 

Amazing the things we can do with old pallets, huh?

 

 

Then there's the dresser. I found this thing one day when I went into the Goodwill. I had an itch to redo a piece of furniture so I brought this thing home. Every time I do this, David says, "What kind of junk have you brought home now?" So I redid the dresser with a different chalk paint recipe and it didn't come out as I had hoped. But we put it in the living room and used it as a TV stand for a while. We finally decided to put our TV back up on the mantel so we could move the dresser out of the living room to create more space. So the dresser them got moved into the foyer which right now is where things go if we don't really have a goo place for them because our foyer doesn't really get used like a typical foyer does. In the end, the dresser has been a fabulous purchase because it is big enough to store all of the clothes we have plus it will be used as a changing table. I redid it with the same chalk paint and paint color as the crib. (I still have not added the drawer pulls.)

 

 

 

 

So there you have it, a mini tour of the nursery for baby boy that will be here this same time next week! We can't wait to meet him!!