Our Tales of Two Cities: Nesting...aka creating a nursery

Friday, August 17, 2012

Nesting...aka creating a nursery

Although I'm not one for interior design...I loved creating Baby G's nursery. It took a lot of time, thought, effort, and many times of telling myself "ok just go with it"....and I love the way it turned out.

I think there is something about nesting with your first child that is special. We are going from the world revolving around us and whatever Nick and I want to do (and sometimes Cole) to life revolving around our family of 3 (and Cole, haha). I think the process of getting all the baby items we need and creating a nursery slowly helps make that transition. Who knows what kind of nursery we'll put together for our next children, but I'm glad we did this one in full.

We have a two bedroom townhouse, the guest room is downstairs which we turned into the nursery. I was a little sad to take it apart b/c it was the only room in the house that actually fully decorated...here's what it looked like.

To decorate the nursery, I started with a main source of inspiration. While shopping in Manhattan in SOHO one day, Nick and I passed by this artist selling his pieces on the street. They were watercolors of different characters and animals. I loved them and got prints of my favorite 4. Even though we weren't expecting yet, I thought "one day these will be perfect for a nursery!". Then I picked some colors...aqua and yellow with white furniture, and finally fabric...the details fell together from there.

Nick helped a lot, especially with putting furniture together, hanging things in the room, etc. My mom also came up (thanks mom!) to help me put up the fabrics I had ordered, shop for a few things I needed, and put the room together.

shopping at babies r us with my mom

damage.

nick hanging curtain rods and valences.

folding mini clothes :)

putting together a cute playmat!

mom hard at work.

finished closet

relaxation spot.

the cheerful room

Now the room is completely done...we had to get new blinds, fix a cracked window, and add a few more decorative items. It's so cute! The crib, changing table-dresser, and the bookshelf in the closet are from Pottery Barn Kids, the chair is Little Castle ordered online from Rosenberry Rooms, the fabrics in the room are all sewn by a woman on Etsy (ModifiedTot), and the butterfly mobile is from an artist on Etsy (LittleDreamersInc). Everything else was randomly gathered and found...a very fun process! I love how it came together.

the inspiration...giraffe, pink elephant, round penguin, and turtle