Nursery Pictures!

This is still a work in progress - and will probably still be, up until the day my little guy is born - but I wanted to post progress pictures for everyone to see, especially my momma. (She's also been inspired by the project and keeps finding me cute little things for the shelf that wraps around the room, like this cute little horsey...)

This room started out bare, without carpet or anything. We are fortunate to have an awesome landlord who put in the carpet for free. And Tim did the rest of the construction and painting. Poor baby. The shelf that goes around the room nearly broke him and the clouds were a labor of love, for sure, but he persevered and it looks incredible! I'm so happy with it.


It was tough, though. No one really offers cool vintage-looking western nursery things. Much of the baby stuff out there now is crazy busy looking and much too cutesy for our taste. It's hard to even find solid colors for simple things like crib bed skirts! The one on our crib I had to MAKE because I couldn't find a decent one anywhere. I also had to make our crib mobile because I couldn't find a western one. What I ended up doing is purchasing a cheap mobile and replacing the cheesy danglies with some little horses from Oriental Trading Company. I jazzed them up a bit with little bows and whatnot. I like how it turned out.

Do you see the brown and blue square quilt hanging off the edge of the crib? Tim's incredible grandma, Emma Lee, made that for our little guy! Isn't it perfect? The colors are just right. Nothing says love quite like a homemade quilt! We're so lucky to have her in our lives. She even stitched a sweet little teddy bear pattern in the white squares. I love it!

Do you see the little toybox next to the crib? We got that at Ikea. It was actually a file holder / desk seat thingy. But we liked it because of it's simplicity and nice lines. (All the other toyboxes we've seen have been huge and tacky.) This one is smaller and it came with a foam cushion for the top. It even has a saftey closure on the lid to prevent squished fingers - practical and pretty. So, I bought a set of twin sheets at Target that had a cool cowboy silouhette pattern on them and cut them up for the fabric to use on the toybox cushion and to make some curtains.

Because the room is small and we did so much with the clouds and shelf, I wanted simple curtains for the room. I like how they turned out - they were really easy to make, too! And I even had some extra fabric left over from all that to make a diaper holder. I got some great patterns from this website. I didn't take a picture of the final outcome because I haven't hung that up just yet. Soon though. I may even make a small matching laundry bag out of the same material. It depends on how industrius I feel!

Do you see my little "Woody" doll in the corner? He's also an addition from my momma! (Not to mention the dresser and crib that my folks got for us!)

Here is the other corner of the window... It's a tiny room packed to the hilt! There is a cool little nook here, perfect for a rocking chair. (This is the chair Uncle Andy got for us!) Do you see the cool log pillow that I finally finished? It's a funky little touch. (If you click on any of the pictures, you can enlarge them...) What is not pictured here is the little side table we bought to sit in the corner on the other side of the chair. We had the hardest time finding a table for that corner! We finally found a "telephone stand" at an unfinished wood furniture place. Tim's folks gave us the money for that purchase. It is under construction right now, being painted white like the rest of the furniture. It has a little drawer at the top and shelves underneith. My mom picked out the perfect lamp to put on top of it, as soon as it's finished. I'll post a picture of that soon.

It's a cool and quirky little room. I hope my little guy will like it.