Nursery Notes 8 - Final Nursery Reveal

I was going to post the final nursery reveal before the baby came - but then Kimber decided to come a week early and I since then I've been busy with feedings, diaper changes and all things baby!!

I still have a couple things I want to do the finish the room and to personalize it- throw pillows, a rug, a sign with her name, canvas of Kimber's newborn pictures - but I'd say the nursery is mostly finished.  AND I love how the nursery turned out!! It's very close to what my vision was when I started the nursery planning process!!

Before we had Kimber, I would sit in the glider and take it all in. Now, I sit in the glider during feedings and love the room even more because we have a baby in there!!

I was going to use green as an accent color in the room, but once the room started coming together - I realized that the aqua/turquoise color worked well with the chevron fabric.

I found the aqua "K" at TJ Maxx -before I even knew we were having a girl {our boy name did not start with a K} but I bought it anyways because it fit the room perfectly!

 



I made the bunting out off all the fabric that we used in the room & I love how it turned out! The spaces in the wall collage are going to be filled in with canvas prints of Kimber's newborn session. 

 

Below is the same view but with the changing pad {my MIL made the cover to match the room} and side table.

 

I wasn't sure what I wanted to put above the crib {I didn't want anything too heavy that might fall off the wall}. The paper lanterns and tissue poms were a perfect addition to the room!



 

I found this cute basket at TJ Maxx - it'll work great as a toy basket in the room.



 

With so many baby items - I wanted to make sure the closet was well organized. I even made tags for the baskets in the closet!

 

Since we didn't find out the gender of the baby, we didn't have many clothes - besides sleepers & onsies - but the closet is now full of cute girly clothes!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nursery Notes 7

We're still {slowly} making progress on the nursery. I was out of town 4 weekends in a row, so I didn't get as much done as I'd like to - but I can still do some shopping to get the items I need!!

 

The last big item we needed to order for the nursery was the glider & ottoman. Since the nursery is going to be on the 2nd level of our house and the glider will get lots of use - nursing the baby, snuggles after bath time and middle of the night feedings - I wanted to make sure I got a good quality one. After searching the Internet, I found the Little Castle Charleston Swivel Glider Collection at Target and thought it would be functional and look great in the nursery. The back of it is taller, so it should be comfortable for Nick to sit in as well.

On our trip to Minneapolis earlier this month, we were able to exchange the broken piece for the shelving unit in the nursery. While we were at Ikea, I decided to pick up a couple of other items for the nursery.

We found a hamper and another storage unit for the closet.

 

 

I also picked up several Ribba frames & shelves. I plan on making a wall collage over the dresser with these shelves & frames - something like these:

 

I keep putting off sewing items for the nursery and I know I just need to start on those projects! If I get them done, I'll feel like the room is closer to being done and I can buy the finish touches for the room. I'm hoping to make time this weekend {since it's my only weekend at home this month}. I need to make curtains, crib skirt, crib bumper, changing pad cover and bunting. 

 

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I'm working with the same chevron fabric and hope they look at good as they do in these pictures!

 



I hope to get some projects finished in the next week and have more updates on the progress!!

 

Nursery Notes 6

Monday & Tuesday.
We worked both Monday & Tuesday nights to finish the closet. Nick painted the second coat on Monday night and installed the shelving unit on Tuesday night. The nice thing about the shelving unit we installed is that it can be moved around - add/remove shelves and make the clothes hanging area bigger as the baby grows {and so does the size of its clothes}.

 

 

 

While Nick worked on the installing the shelving unit and I assisted him by handing him tools & parts...Jayde sat right in the way!!

 

 

Now that the shelving unit is installed - I can start picking up baskets, hampers and other organizers to put in the closet. I might pick up a couple more of the pull out baskets - I think those will come in handy. I really have no clue on how to organize the closet at this point because I'm not sure what I'll need or use, but I'm sure I'll figure it out once the baby gets here!

 

 

 

It only took 2 days longer than expected, but we got everything done on the to-do list! Now that all the big items are installed/assembled/arranged - I can start working on the small things. The fun things that will add character to the room!



 

The list of to-do's to focus on next {can you tell I like to make lists and check them off?!?}

1. Order glider & ottoman

2. Make curtains

3. Make crib skirt

4. Make crib bumper

5. Make changing pad cover

6. Buy frames/shelving/decorations

 

As you can see...alot of these items involve sewing. I think it's time to pull out the new sewing machine I got for Christmas and learn how to use it!

 

 

Nursery Notes 5

Sunday.
I didn't start out as bright & early on Sunday morning. We went to church, dinner with Nick's mom and stopped by to visit Chloe & Baby Abey. Nick was going through withdrawals since he hadn't seen them in over a month! Chloe is such a big girl - she's almost fully potty trained and was wearing her big girl undies!! And I can't believe how big Baby Abey is already {he's almost 6 months} - he's starting to army crawl and wanted to move all over the place!!

**All dressed up for church**

 

 

When we got home - we were ready to start on the nursery again. Nick started putting the first coat of paint on the closet while I worked on putting together the new night stands for the master bedroom {I might post more on this later if they turn out}.

 

 

So glad to get rid of the ugly yellow color!

Note to other home owners...don't paint your closets the same color as the room - it's alot of work to repaint the room & the closet for the next owners!!

 

 

After painting the closet - we were ready to put together the last piece of furniture for the nursery. The chest of drawers only had 6 drawers {and we were experts by this time} so it only took alittle over an hour to assemble.

 

 

I was so excited when the last drawer was installed and the room was rearranged!

 

 

I'm loving the look of the nursery so far - so clean and simple. I feel like the gray walls & white furniture work well together - and once I get the fabric in the room it'll look even better!!

 



Nursery Notes 4

Saturday.

I got up bright & early Saturday morning - 6:30 to be exact! Jayde decided she needed to go to the bathroom and I couldn't fall back to sleep - so I was up for the day. I started cleaning the downstairs - swept, dusted, vacuumed, mopped and cleaned the bathroom. All before Nick decided to wake up at 9am {did I mention he may have had several beers with dinner the night before?!?}.

 

In hindsight, I should have shared my list of to-do's for the weekend with Nick- he knew I wanted to get things done but I don't know if he knew how much I wanted to get done. He decided that we needed to get all of our paper work together to take to our tax accountant on Saturday morning - this was not on my list! He got the paper work done {while I put another coat of paint on the night stands I'm finishing for the master bedroom} and we headed to town to drop the paper work off. Since we were going to town - I made him go to Hobby Lobby with me to get items for the baby shower I'm hosting the following weekend.

 

Once we got back home - the nursery projects started!!  I planned to get alot done over the weekend - clean out the closet, paint the closet {white}, install the closet organizer and put together the furniture. Seemed like we could get it all done in 2 days...

 

Clean out closet - I admit it - I am a pack rat. If there is a closet, drawer or shelf - you bet I'm going to fill it with something!! {this drives Nick crazy} It didn't take very long to clean out the closet and move all the totes to the basement, but what I discovered is that I might have a slight obsession with wrapping paper! Seriously, who needs this much wrapping paper & tissue paper?!?

Paint closet - Once the closet was cleaned out, I thought we'd be able to paint the closet. Wrong. When Nick removed the existing shelving unit, he realized he would have to patch the holes...which meant no painting would get done on Saturday. This was already putting us 1 day behind my schedule...but it had to be done.

Put furniture together - Since we couldn't get anything else done on the closet until Sunday, we moved onto the next project - putting the furniture together. We picked up three pieces from Ikea {the Expedit shelving unit and the Hemnes dresser and chest} for the nursery. I loved the way they looked online and thought they would fit my vision for the room.

We started putting the shelving unit together and it went pretty smoothly...until we pulled out the last piece from the box and discovered it was broken! Needless to say, we weren't very happy . I called Ikea and they said I can exchange the broken piece for a new piece. So now we have to make a special 3 hour trip to Ikea to replace the piece - but it's close to Mall of America - so I'm thinking we'll get some shopping done too! Plus, there are a couple of frames, lamps, shelves and other things I want to pick up from Ikea...so it's not a bad thing that we have to go back!

 

 

 

 

Next we moved onto the dresser. It took us close to 2 hours to put together and by the end we were tired & hungry! There are 8 drawers on the dresser...and that's what took the longest to put together. We created an assembly line with the drawers and it worked well...AND Nick & I didn't fight once when putting the dresser together! I was pretty impressed! I did realize while sitting on the floor - I am definitely not as mobile as I used to be. The belly gets in the way more & more and I get tired faster than I used to. I'm glad Nick was doing more of the work and I was just supervising!

 

 

 

 

After putting together these two pieces of furniture - we were ready to call it a day. We grabbed something to eat & relaxed on the couch for the rest of the night!