Baby's Room Tour

I think it is now safe to say we’ve accomplished everything on that long list of must-do’s before our baby arrives. We’ve taken all the classes, gotten all the stuff, picked a pediatrician, etc. We’ve even done the majority of the unnecessary things like, clean our house from top to bottom, freeze a bunch of pre-made food, and get the nursery all frilly and fit for a princess! All that’s left to do is sit and wait. Decorating the nursery was a fun process for me, so in the meantime I wanted to share the finished product. I’ll start with the hallway outside the room. My friend Alex made a very cute and very appropriate “Sam-I-Am” banner for my Seuss themed baby shower. I wanted to save it for the house since the baby’s name is Samantha, but I didn’t really have a spot for it inside the room, so I put it outside. I think it looks really cute and festive for welcoming home baby Samantha.

Next is the view as you walk into the room (which is the door on the right in the above picture). You can see a hint of the changing table on the left, and the crib on the right. Directly to the right of the door is the nice big closet.


Anyone who has gotten a tour of my house before this fall knows that this room (formerly the guest bedroom) was a shade of powder blue that I really hated. Despite my hatred, I was never moved to pick a different color and do something about it until now. This color is a pale grey called “Silver Drop” from Behr. My mom did a great job painting the room, and covering all that blue over Thanksgiving weekend. I love how it turned out! I also decided pretty early on in the process that I am not a huge fan of the matching nursery decor sets that the baby stores sell. They’re pretty expensive, and I didn’t love any of them enough to feel it was worth the price, and hoped to just go out and buy whatever I liked to decorate the room instead of sticking to a set. I knew I wanted lots of big, cheery, bright pops of color, so I got things that fit into that theme, and I really am happy with the final outcome. I think all the colors pop really nicely off of the subtle wall color, too. Here is a close-up of the little accent rug you can see in front of the crib in the previous picture.


And here is a closer-up shot of the stuff going on between the windows:


And a glare-free close-up of this framed picture. It’s from our maternity shoot that was a gift from Alex (who also made the Seuss banner!) who is starting up her own photography business. You can check her out on facebook (and see some more of the pics she took of us!) here.


Here is a direct shot of the changing table/dresser. The furniture is pretty big and the room is relatively small, so it was a little hard to take pictures of it without cutting it off. In the corner in the right there will eventually be a glider, which has not yet arrived. The blanket and pillow on the floor there are waiting to adorn it once it does. Note the cheerful sock monkey greeting Samantha all the way from Uncle Dom and Aunt Kelly in WV.



Here is a close-up of the decorations on the hutch. The little ornament hanging on the knob is another Sam-I-Am trinket that was given to us by Gretchen. You surely can’t be surprised that a framed picture of Jackie-cat made it into a prime spot, can you?



Above the closet is a banner that I made with my Cricut, which is a really cool paper cutting tool.


Above the door are some cute flower decals that I got from Target. They are completely removable and able to be easily repositioned a bunch of times, which is great.



And finally, the crib. I should mention that this crib converts to a toddler bed and then to a full sized bed, so this is the same bed she will be sleeping in when she visits us from college in 20 years! The dresser/hutch and changing table will stay as part of the set, too.


I love that the flowers look like they are growing out of the crib, and the sunshine in the picture looks like it is shining on them. Here is a closeup of the picture above the crib, which was one of the first things I bought for the room and sort of tried to pick things that would coordinate with it during this process.



Now all we need is our little squishy bundle of joy, who will hopefully decide to make her entrance in the next week! We can’t wait!