Here is my babycakes’ nursery! We finished it about 3 days before she was born. Actually it still needs blinds in the windows, so it’s not actually complete. And I’d like a rug for the floor too. So never mind.
When we moved in, the walls in this room were already a light green, so I decided to work with the color rather than repaint (since we already were doing so much painting when we first moved in). I also at first thought I’d be using the blue chair from Little Honey’s room, so I searched for fabric that had blue and green in it, but also had a romantic, feminine feel to it. I decided on a color scheme of light blue, light green, and pink.
I love how much of this room is handmade. The bedding fabric is from Amy Butler’s Love collection. I made a crib skirt, bumper, blanket, slip covers for the chair, recovered the ottoman, basket inserts, and a change pad. One of my favorite aspects of the room is the light fixture from Ikea. Every little girl needs a chandelier in her room, right?
This dresser used to be my mom’s back in the day, and wasn’t getting any use at my parents’ house anymore, so they handed it down to us. We painted it white with a light blue top and replaced the hardware. This was the last thing we finished in the room and I was so excited to get it finally set up. The white dress was the gown Little Honey wore for her baptism, and I am hopeful that Babycakes can wear it too. The “artwork” on the shelf (which is from Ikea) was made by little honey. It’s simple water color paint on canvas.
This bench, under the window, was made by my dad for LH’s nursery. The baskets have toys and a changing station (which we really keep downstairs), and have the fabric inserts in them to keep them looking cohesive with the room and less bland and plain. I recovered the cushions on the bench too.
The glider used to look like this:
It used to be my Grandma’s, and my parents were all set to throw it away when we arrived for a weekend visit. My dad and hubby fixed it up and took several cans of white spray paint to it, and I recovered the cushions. Voila!
The ottoman was free at a yard sale from a friend of mine. I removed the old cover and used a staple gun to attach the new fabric. I made a pillow for the glider also.
You can see some of the wall “art” in this picture better. The flowers in the frames over the glider I made myself. I used a paper punch, card stock, and a glue stick to make them. Very easy. Over the crib, I took embroidery hoops, which were just $1.50 each, and added fabric in the room’s colors, and hung those too. Well, really, I just told Hubby where to hang them.
The last part of the room isn’t totally finished but I will show you what we do have there.
It looks really blah so far. We found a mirror at a yard sale and painted the frame, and hung it (very securely) at a height where BC will be able to see it once she is more mobile and aware. I have some frames which I plan to fill with some newborn pictures to hang on the wall above the mirror also.
I’m really happy with how the room turned out! I will admit, it turned out a little more… flowery… than I think I imagined it in my head. Maybe because I used flowery fabric? 
When it comes time to transition it into a big-girl room I’ll tone down the flowers. But I also like the idea of a romantic type of feel for a baby girl nursery.
One other thing I am proud of? This room cost less than $150 to put together. The crib we already had and was a gift from my grandma when LH was born, the glider, dresser and ottoman were free (from my parents / grandma), the bench was hand-made by my dad, and all the bedding and artwork was hand-made by me. The only things we bought were the fabric, light fixture, curtains, and shelf (plus the embroidery hoops, and the $3 mirror). Go us!
And, after all that work to get it ready before she was born, the only thing she has used the room for so far is for some diaper changes. She still sleeps in our room, which we planned on before she was born, so I’m not sure why I felt such a rush to get everything ready. Blame the nesting instinct. At least when she’s ready to move to her crib she’ll be a stylish baby going to bed!
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