Week 30 - The Nursery

I had big plans for this room... before it was going to be a nursery.  This child has already invaded my space before he even steps (or is carried) into our house.  What is now going to be the nursery was going to and was my ongoing project called "my office," or "my man-cave."

When we originally bought our house what was the office had a burnt orange color on the walls.  Didn't work to well for my Kansas Jayhawks and C0lorado Rockies gear, but I am a guy and didn't really care.  Now that you mention that even those two teams colors don't go well together.   My wife hated the color... and as for me, i uh lived with it and it grew on me.   Needless to say we didn't want that color for the nursery.   I was actually kind of sad to see that color go when we did start repainting over it.  But this is one of those things that as a father you accept as your job.  But its a job that I enjoy doing because I know that someday when our little one finally sleeps through the night he will appreciate exactly what daddy has done for him... yeah at the age of 3 months he is going to appreciate it HAHA!  But even if he won't know the difference between sleeping in our room or his own room its still gratifying knowing that we are providing him a nice room to sleep in.

(picture of the nursery)

Now the paint color has changed.  We hope that this is paint job, he will be able to grow up with and maybe we won't have to change it.  But you learn lots of little tricks when you have to add another color boarder like we did.  And even though my wife was not able to help out much with the painting, I wouldn't have been able to do it with out her since she was helping me with making sure that it all looked good.  It's all about the wifes idea and then we execute it no matter how difficult it is right guys?

Now we had an old dresser and bookshelf that we had sitting around and decided to just paint it the coordinating blue which I think turned out great and saved us some cash.

(Pictures of the bookshelf and dresser)

The changing table we got a deal on.  Bought it off criagslist for about 30 bucks and it was originally a golden pine color.  We were wanting to stain it the same color as our crib but, I'll take the fall for this one, I didn't get started on it soon enough to get it stained before the baby shower and so I just painted it.  If there is one thing I can advise... for baby items check craigslist.  You'll never know what you will find but sometimes you can come across a bargain.

(Picture of changing table)

We got our crib for a very good price as it was on sale and with a free mattress. But something that makes this have alittle bit more meaning... my wonderful wife made the crib sheet and the bumper.  Partially because we were unable to find sheets in just baseball that we liked, but it gives us a story to tell that she made them just for him.  Just like the accent fabric on the curtain. That was in my old room when I was in high school.

(picture of the crib and curtains)

And finally we added alittle bit with vinyl stick on stickers.  We found this personalized home plate which was very nice and also just some baseballs to go on the boarder.  They come off clean so if we do have paint again we won't have to leave them on.

(Picture of the vinyl stick-ons)