or, at least he will ... when he arrives. Because we finally finished our work on the nursery. It's been a long time coming, especially since we started work on this room over 3 years ago (while not knowing that it would become Short Stranger's room, we began by taking care of a hideous florescent green color that adorned ALL of the woodwork in that room -- see picture below).
During the first year in this house, we had the carpet removed, refinished the original wood floors, and scraped, stripped, and repainted all the walls and woodwork (it hurts just thinking about it). It basically served as our friend Becca's room (who has visited us every summer) until we found out we were going to have a new addition to our family (ie. Baby Awesome -- sorry Becca, you'll have to settle this one with him). Here was the photo we posted a few months ago when we were ready to begin the nursery/nesting mania, but had done nothing to the room other than moving out the existing furniture and rug.
Yet, most of the nursery project has been completed in the past several months, including painting, redoing the closet, finding furniture, applying decals, Bryna painting the three canvases above the crib, and installing a new blind, and putting up a ceiling fan (which was a huge pain, especially since our house still has the original gas-light pipes in every place there is a light fixture). We're super excited about the baby's new pad, and we hope he will enjoy it as much as we do (although decorating a newborn's room is WAY more about the parents than the baby). Here are the final pics -- using the nifty Panorama iPhone app to get a better look at the whole room (sometimes stitching in the cats in odd ways, if you take a close look).
So, in summary: Nursery Project 99% done, just waiting for the last touch . . . a baby (any day now, right? 17 official days to go, more or less).
During the first year in this house, we had the carpet removed, refinished the original wood floors, and scraped, stripped, and repainted all the walls and woodwork (it hurts just thinking about it). It basically served as our friend Becca's room (who has visited us every summer) until we found out we were going to have a new addition to our family (ie. Baby Awesome -- sorry Becca, you'll have to settle this one with him). Here was the photo we posted a few months ago when we were ready to begin the nursery/nesting mania, but had done nothing to the room other than moving out the existing furniture and rug.
Yet, most of the nursery project has been completed in the past several months, including painting, redoing the closet, finding furniture, applying decals, Bryna painting the three canvases above the crib, and installing a new blind, and putting up a ceiling fan (which was a huge pain, especially since our house still has the original gas-light pipes in every place there is a light fixture). We're super excited about the baby's new pad, and we hope he will enjoy it as much as we do (although decorating a newborn's room is WAY more about the parents than the baby). Here are the final pics -- using the nifty Panorama iPhone app to get a better look at the whole room (sometimes stitching in the cats in odd ways, if you take a close look).
So, in summary: Nursery Project 99% done, just waiting for the last touch . . . a baby (any day now, right? 17 official days to go, more or less).
We'll post daylight pictures soon!
ReplyDeleteLooks wonderful! Do the floors creak at all? Just remembering how little noises like that used to wake my boy up.
ReplyDeleteLove the Amy Coe crib, and gliding rocker. So important to get a chair that you *want* to sit in.
ReplyDeleteNoel -- the crib familiar much? And we hope the rocker will be somewhere we'll enjoy sitting/feeding/burping/napping/sleeping/reading/etc.
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