What makes my Dream Nursery, so dreamy? The fact that i have one! It only took me three babies to lockdown an actual nursery but by golly i got one, and it is pretty awesome, in my opinion :) This one came more out of necessity than from a desire to have one. We have a reasonable sized house (perfect IMO hehe) a nice amount of square footage, but the rooms are very segmented, which is pretty common in older houses, cape cods in particular. That means we have no master sweet. We plan on having two rooms and a bathroom morphed into one master suit, but this is pretty far out in our renovation plans. So what we have here is a little tine bedroom next to a little tiny bedroom, and neither have enough room for our bed and a crib... THUS a nursery was created!!
The room had been deemed the Multi-purpose room, and we have used it for just about every purpose we could come up with since moving in: guest room, office, storage room, playroom, back to guest room, sewing room, room that houses a knitting machine, back to play room, then lastly a tool shed/lumber yard(for the dining room project, not yet blogged about) Now the room can lovingly be called a nursery, after 9 months of envisioning it, and planning and gathering furniture, we put it all together in 2, thats right TWO day.
Most of the rooms in this house... well who am i kidding, ALL of the rooms in this house have been beat to h***, we are pretty sure that the previous owners rented out individual rooms, and they didnt do "home improvement" more like "throw on some spackle and a boat load of caulking and call it good" so every room we remodel, we have to sand down the plaster, fix the cracks, patch huge holes, redo base boards and window casings and undo the previous "home improvements". All before we can start painting and it is usually a two week process. This room was needing to be done fast, so hubbs did a bit of light sanding (with a belt sander) I did a few wall patches (used a whole can of plaster) and then we taped the best we could(over the excessive amounts of caulking) and painted the room green. Unfortunately this was the worst room in the house so it really should have required a month of work... but now that the paint is on and all is said and done it is not to bad!
My plan was to have a functioning nursery, as well as a place for the kids to sit and play quietly while I am busy tending to baby... it sounds like a tall order, but i think we may have accomplished it for the most part, i guess i will see when baby gets here!!
Here are some pictures!!
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| The view from my Glider. kids sitting on their home made floor cushions, playing with puzzles and books. The white quilt was a last minute project i will explain later. Take a look at the quilt hanging on the crib... this quilt was made by my awesome friends, and quilting companions, they each picked out fabric that made them think of me or that they thought i would like(because baby 3 is a surprise) and then they quilted it together... i just love it!! They really went above and beyond with that! Then made a diaper bag to match!!! i know what you are thinking... i need some friends like that :) |
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| View from the door. The repurposed target bookshelf that we've had for like 5 years, fits in pretty good to hold some quiet toys and books!! |
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| The aqua Doodle, this is the kids favorite feature! they can play with it only when i get the 'markers' down, and i intend on doing so sparingly... to keep it exciting! Right now if allowed they will play with it for at least an hour |
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| Future big sis and big bro!! |
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| Baby G had to take a picture since i was taking pictures, she did a good job... except i am swollen and ridiculously pregnant, we will just blame it on a bad camera angle :/ |
Now alls i have to add is a baby!! Then our family will be one child closer to complete, hehe!! More to come on our current series "catching up" join me tomorrow night as i blog about THE DINING ROOM (you are not gonna want to miss that)
