Nursery Pictures

Pictures of the nursery. I remember distinctly trying to find something *neutral* to use because I didn't know if I was having a boy or a girl. Do you know how hard that was? I knew more of what I didn't want, i.e. any kind of character or theme, per say, no pastels, etc. etc. All of the bedding they had out at that time was crap and expensive!! The fabric was thin and it just wasn't well made. I found one that I loved at a baby specialty store, only to see that it cost $1000!!! That was more than my crib cost. How could I justify that?



So, I guilted my mom into making the crib set for me. I searched high & low for some fabric that I loved. I ended up with 3 chintz prints from Waverly. They had a good combination of all of the colors I was looking for. One was a stripe, one was a dot and one was a floral. It wasn't cheap, I think the fabric alone was $250, but it was good fabric that I knew would last. I took the fabric to Home Depot and had them color match paint to it. I painted the walls yellow, the trim green and the ceiling blue. I added clouds to the ceiling with watered down white paint.





My mom, let's call her The Crafty One, made me that adorable window shelf. She painted an old window green, made a curtain and attached it with a curtain rod. Made a shelf using pieces of wood and pickets. It hangs over my changing table/dresser and it works perfect to hold all of those little bottles you end up with in the nursery.







Here is the picket fence that I put in. It looked just like this when I bought it, but it was bare wood. I white washed it and then attached it to the wall. I use it to hang all of the boy's hats on. It works perfect.












I had a hard time getting a picture of the clouds on the ceiling. The glare from the ceiling fan was making it darn near impossible, so I could only get the corners. This is a pic of the striped fabric that we used.