E's New Bedroom!

We are expecting baby number two in January! The ultrasounds indicated that this baby is going to be a little girl, just like E. Eventually, they will probably share a bedroom, but for now, with E such a light sleeper, we are going to give the nursery to the new baby and give E the guest bedroom. 

I wanted it to function as a guest bedroom as well until the last possible minute so in order to accomplish that I've left the bed in there for now. I'm going to move the crib in next week and let E start sleeping in there to get used to it. 

The first thing I did was paint. I always forget to take before pictures, but you have to imagine that the walls were a light brownish pink, not as bad as I'm describing but not very pretty. I painted a light blue with white ceiling to make the room look lighter (there is only one window.)

Next I took the doors off of the closet. They were the accordion doors that come out into the room. They took up a lot of space when they were open, and E couldn't get them open herself. I found baskets at the dollar store and labeled them for her clothes. She loves going in there now and picking clothes out in the morning!

Next I added a corner book area. It was a really awkward space, and not enough room for any furniture, so I used drawer dividers (also from the dollar store) and screwed them into the wall.

I also made the curtains and am working on a quilt for E to go in the room. If you want to read more about that, you can see them on my other blog, here.

nursery storage

I love organizing.  I could spend all day cleaning out a closet and think it was a great day.  I love organizing E's clothes and picking out outfits, putting all of her stuff away at the end of the day, etc.  However, until recently, her dresser was her crib.  She was sleeping in the bassinet and I had nowhere else to put anything.  We needed to move her into the crib this week though, so last week I finally went through and made a dresser for her stuff...kind of.  Here is how it turned out!

bookshelves for the nursery

This past weekend, we took our first birthing class.  After that class, I was in super nesting mode.  I convinced P to spend half the day Sunday driving all over to pick up some stuff we absolutely needed for the nursery.  Luckily, we found some great deals on craigslist so it wasn't too much of a dent in our pocket book.  I am almost ready to show pictures of the nursery, but I'm still finishing up the changing table and I haven't found the perfect rug yet.

In the meantime, here is a little teaser.  I wanted to get some sort of bookshelves for the nursery and when I saw this idea on pinterest, I had to do it.  I forgot to take a picture of the wall before I started, so here it is right after I started.

I bought 2 different fabrics, 1 1/3 yard of each and followed the instructions in the tutorial I linked above.  It was so simple, and they turned out great!

Now all I need are some more books to put in there!  I might eventuall put another shelf above it for things other than books, but I have to be careful because the door opens in on here so it can't be too deep.

As for the little mouse and mouse hole in the corner, that was the test that came with my amazing vinyl image that is on the opposite wall, but I'm not ready to show that yet!

Also, as I was putting together this post, I tried to get the link for the tutorial off of pinterest and realized that it was down, I almost cried!  I hope it's back up soon as P is on a trip tonight and if I can't sleep, I have plans of spending time on pinterest, feeding my addiction.  :)