Tour of the Nursery That Awaits Baby

Liana and Caleb's nurseries were comprised of a hodgepodge of hand-me-down furniture and had no uniform look to them (their bedrooms now however are pretty awesome looking!). Having given all of their old baby furniture away long ago and being in a better financial situation now, I've been psyched about developing the look of this nursery.

The walls of the "sacred fourth bedroom" as we called it for the two years in which it was bare, were already painted light green which worked with the girl ideas I had, but would have had to have been repainted if baby were a boy (I used this as consolation for Darcy when we found out the baby's gender). We lucked out and were gifted a brand new crib and change table from Darcy's brother and his wife, who had accidentally received two of each when they ordered the same set for their daughter. So two things were decided for convenience: light green walls and espresso brown furniture.

Darcy and my dad assembling the crib.

We decided on a brown/pink/green colour scheme so that it's girlie without being too girlie and not repetitive of the looks of the other bedrooms. The first purchase we made for the baby was the Simone bedding set from Pottery Barn Kids (minus the bumper pad as Health Canada advises against their use). Though I love Disney movies as much as the next girl I'm not a fan of trademark character sets for nurseries (I'd totally get this Sailor Moon toddler room set when she's a little older though!) so for a theme I thought of classic stories. This idea led me to paint the following four paintings.

Little Red Riding Hood is my least favourite of the four (maybe I'll redo it someday).
Acrylics are the safest paints to use while pregnant but they DON'T BLEND!

Here's Goldilocks with three bears that look slightly like raccoons.

The Three Little Pigs I'm actually kinda proud of.

I was torn on which story to choose for painting #4. Alice in Wonderland seemed the most
popular idea so I went with it. I like the background on this one.

Here are some other photos of the room and its details:

This is the biggest splash of pink frill in the nursery! Underneath though
is a pull down blind that makes the room very dark.

The bedding set I referred to earlier.

Crystal owl lamp (doubles as a nightlight and regular lamp). Nicely ties together the pink curtains and the storybook theme. It's also my favourite thing in the nursery (until the baby arrives, that is).

This rocking chair is one of the few remnants of Caleb's nursery but it was pine.
My dad painted it to match the espresso colour.

Change table.

Closet contents incl a lot of teeny dresses and shoes

Sound machine and humidifier

So the paintings will be hung as a box shape over the crib. Also, lucked out with these two dressers from Ikea because I was hoping to find two narrow ones in order to have the crib centered and the colour match is great.

Woodland animals hook behind door (okay, more owls, but it's so easy to find owl baby items now!)

Ludo friend.

All that's missing now is a baby. Today is her due date so it should be too much longer before we start spending much more time in the bedroom.