Nursery Preparations

Up until last week, I was under the impression that we would not be modifying our guest room into a joint nursery - other than moving the necessary furniture in and the guest furniture out. The husband, being the trouble-seeker that he is, decided to change that! Usually that's my job!!

So he proposed painting something to make our Valspar "Baked Scone" room into more of a kid space (and I think he even said "less boring"). I wanted to be on board, but I was absolutely lost. I told him I'd spent months thinking about it and yet couldn't come up with a great solution without painting the entire space - which I simply didn't want (him to have) to do! However, put some pressure on, throw some caution to the wind, and we were able to make some changes. And by we, I mean he. I took mcNugget and got out of town after the ideas had been discussed and agreed on.

First, I declared that the room had to match with the upholstery - since I simply couldn't handle redoing the crib skirt and the glider. I had the fabric to do a second crib skirt (finished last week), they were in perfect condition, and they were gender neutral. He agreed, so we chose that as our pallet. One of the polka dots on the fabric came quite close to being a match for our beloved "baked scone" (which you'll see changes colors dramatically depending on the light source)- so we were okay there. The wood tones in the floor and furniture matched the two shades of brown in the fabric - and the painted white trim matched a polka dot as well. So we were left with two shades of blue and two shades of green to work with.

I then went on google and used phrases like "aqua and yellow nursery" and "teal nursery with green accents" to get some inspiration. Surprising to me, there were a lot of rooms that made it work. Some were a little beachy, most of the rooms were blue with yellow accents instead of the reverse - and many of them had white furniture (which we don't have right now) - but we did like the colors together. There were even a few that mixed in lime green which we use as accents in the current nursery in baskets, the rug, a hanging toy storage, etc.

We then decided we liked the inclusion of stripes, and not just one like in mcNugget's current room, but a few. We also wanted to keep it bright - and possibly allowing us to even keep the colors after it was outgrown as a nursery (possibly when we sell or when the kids get bigger) - so we pulled in just the two blues and white. We used the stripes in his shirt from that morning as the pattern.

As I said, I wasn't home when this was done. It took Bo nearly 4 hours just to do the taping - with a level and everything. I was so amazed and surprised and loving what he did, that now I can't wait to finish the room!