So my friend Maria recently invited me to this website,
Pinterest, where you can save pictures from things all over the internet and categorize them into topics like books & travel & food. I was delighted by all the fun things my friends share there and realized this would have been a very helpful resource a few months back when I was snatching images from all over to help me with the baby room. As it is, I have a bunch of pictures and no referring websites to give proper credit to their sources. Anywho, enough with the chatter. Want to see how things have come together?
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| This is baby's bedding~ lots of circles and bright colors that led us in our decor decisions. |
The Rocking Chair~ This was by far the biggest project in the nursery. We received a wonderful rocker from Kyle's family that was aching for some new upholstery. Here's how it started:
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| Silly me~ this is the best picture I have of it from before the transformation. It's behind the clashing pillow. Merry Christmas & Happy It's a Wonderful Life. |
Kyle stripped it down to reveal what was beneath....
We needed some inspiration for this chair. After a little sleuthing online, here are the two looks that appealed the most~
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| I'm not sure if you can tell, but this love seat shares the similar duck head armrest feature. I liked the velvet look with white trim, but red wasn't the right color. |
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| The brown and white rocker here is obviously a lot more contemporary than ours, but since we were going with a circle theme for the nursery, I liked the colors and the paper lanterns above. |
Kyle then sanded it really well, and we painted it in our living room while enjoying the Ken Burns Civil War series on PBS. What ought to have been the highlight of the transformation was not recorded with my camera. Shame on me. My little sister, Miss Foo, and Kyle reupholstered the chair with a brown canvas and all new stuffing. Lastly, Kyle and I hot glued a velvety trim to cover the rough edges and staples.
The Bookshelf~ We inherited a rickety little bookshelf from my parents. It was not the most attractive thing with stains all over it. I've used it for years (since I was in college). As a testament to how ugly it was, there are really no pictures of it on my computer with the exception of this....
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| See it in the corner on the right side of the page? This was right after we moved in. Also, note the brown-framed pushpin board next to it. It was recently transformed, too. |
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Kyle reinforced it's loose joints with some nails and wood glue. We gave it a few coats of fresh white paint, but I wanted to make it a bit more special. How about a background color? Inspiration~ (this one I know for sure was from
Young House Love)
We picked out an apple green paint sample from Home Depot (only a couple of dollars) that went with the green in our baby bedding. After a few applications, here's what we have...
Wall Art~Remember the pushpin board from above. I wanted to make it into something a bit fancier for wall art since the nursery is big and has a lot of bare space to be filled. Inspiration~
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| I saw this cute idea for button topped pushpins.... |
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| ...then I saw this cute button art (probably on etsy). |
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I painted the frame white (lots of white paint in this nursery), had my little sister cut and whip stitch a big piece of brown velveteen for me, and superglued buttons to push pins. I printed off an "H" in a fancy font off the computer to use as a template to have as the center ("H" is for Hamilton or Hamiltot or Hamboy~ whatever you like really). I am terrible at pictures and couldn't prevent the buttons from glaring in each picture. This is the best of several (can I blame my camera?)....
I wrote about this before, but I'm not sure I showed my inspiration (a pillow from etsy) for baby's watercolor.
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| My painting with colors to suit the room. |
Since I enjoy a little needlecraft from time to time, I wanted to do some fun & easy projects for more wall art. Here's my inspiration...
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| This is the idea I wanted to follow~ felt & thread designs framed in the hoop. |
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| More birds~ I really think they are so cute! |
After seeing these pillows, I wanted to apply them to the hoop framed look with my own colors. Here's what I did~
Kyle and I are really happy with the projects we did to prepare for the little one's arrival. In the coming days, I'll reveal the whole nursery to you. Since this is a long post, it's time to call it a day and enjoy dinner with my sweet husband. Only 3 weeks to go! As Austrians are known to say to babies, hasta la vista!
