WHEW! Just in the nick of time little miss’ room is ready! Aside from the kitchen, it’s been the biggest and fastest transformation in the house to date! What was supposed to be an office was really a ‘catch all’ space for junk and miscellaneous items that never found a home – it was our proverbial ‘under the bed’ for when company was coming over to make the rest of the house seem tidy and put together. Sadly it was a huge waste of space! I LOVE the office being in the sun room now (more on that later), it’s a space I actually want to go to and spend time in working in.
HUGE DESIGN TIP! If your current desk is facing a wall or into a corner TURN IT AROUND! I don’t dabble much into Feng Shui but there is a principal within that line of thinking that the energy in a space is dead in the corner of a room (or something along those lines). Your thoughts will be more open if you’re facing into the room while working.
Design Tangent Over
I hope she likes it!
where I'll be sleeping for the next several weeks!
The quilt that started it all (well I guess the baby did technically) the Jones Patchwork Quilt from Urban Outfitters. I love the unexpected colors in it for a nursery which is how we settled on the peach-y warm color “persimmon” from Sherwin Williams, we color matched it to Olympics low VOC paint from Lowes which is remarkably oderless! I prefer to change babies on beds instead of changing tables (they make me nervous) plus we’re “all set” for her when she outgrows her crib and it gives this mama and place to crash during the bumpy nights ahead.
Every little girl needs her own gallery wall…and every big girl for that matter! The black liberty sign and tin ceiling tile came from my mother’s store and both hold a history of their own, be it barnwood or old buildings. The squirrel watercolor was done by my mom as a series for Porter’s room similar to Beatrix Potter and I asked for her to let me aquire the Poppy acrylic painting for the nursery as well (thanks again Margie!!!) Porter will tell you that he is ‘picking boobies’ in that canvas photo of him picking berries last summer, it is by far my favorite photo of him. And last but not least….THE MOOSE!!!!!! I couldn’t not believe it when my good friend dropped off an early baby gift a few weeks ago and it was a moose! How awesome is that?! After searching high and low I have yet to find just the right materials to ‘bedazzle’ his antlers with but rest assured he will soon be sporting some serious sparkle!
The curtains are a remnant from this fine etsy shop. They are part of the Ty Pennington Collection (snickering as I type that). I didn’t know he had his own fabric line and didn’t expect it to be so organic and folksy and just right for her room. I would also like to send a big hug and thanks to my best-y for working her sewing machine magic on these!
just a few butterflies
The phrase reads “In the Land of Pleasant Living” and if you know where this comes from than my husband wants to be your friend. It is an album title from one of his favorite bands Clutch and their musical styling couldn’t be farther from rock-a-bye-baby. There’s a lot of screaming in their music…then again…there’s a lot of screaming in nurseries so maybe newborns and clutch have more in common than I initially thought. This phrase was in Porter’s nursery as well and it was important that we find a way to incorporate it into her room also. Afterall, we often feel that way about the rustic northwoods we are so blessed to call home.
That is the same Jenny Lind crib that Porter used only with a face lift. And let me tell you, the only thing more overrated than natural child-birth is painting a Jenny Lind crib! I will be posting a detailed how to, or maybe how not to in a bit on this little chore. At the end of the day, the paint isn’t flaking off, it doesn’t smell and is a cute update on a traditional looking crib. I hope she likes it……and if the ultrasound was wrong….I hope our little boy is happy in his purple crib!
more butterflies
The butterfly effect was created by painting the butterflies and saying on the wall around her crib (safety first) and then letting them ‘explode’ to life three dimensionally. Sounds more dramatic than it is but the effect is SIMPLE to achieve with some quality scrap booking paper, and 3M foam mounting tape.
a new twist on an old dresser
That tiny dresser was a Habitat ReStore find and fits the little corner perfectly – we painted the body of the dresser to match the crib and updated the hardware with some new glass pulls courtesy of my best-y! The rocking chair is from Chicago Textiles and was used in Porter’s room with a different cover. And would you look at that carpet?! That my friends is a fine remnant from Kiss Carpet, it is so plush that we spent the first weekend it was installed literally rolling around on it (I know we’re dorks!). Porter took one look at Jamie and said ‘daddy shoes off!’ and then proceeded to bring all of his tractors and matchbox cars in there. I still can’t believe what a find that remnant was and how incredible and cozy it makes the room – a big improvement over the cracked tile!
Oh…and since my site was down last night, here’s week 38 in the maternity meg series…many of you may have seen it already on facebook but I thought I’d officially post it here as well! Thank you all for following along on this journey and again I can not express how much your prayers and love meant to us over the past week – I am happy to report that Porter and I both are feeling much much better by the hour!
week 38
