Nursery: Before

I am back, as promised, with a few "before" shots of the room that will soon be transformed into the nursery. Please forgive my sub-par photography skills. And the creepy looking cat. She is really quite sweet and very excited about redecorating. The room is a bit of a mess in the pictures because I took these after we started shopping for a few things this weekend. A few "inspiration pieces" can be seen in the shots, as well. These include the rug (half price from Anthropologie), fabric covered letters (Anthropologie a couple Christmases ago), paintings of safari animals (painted by a local artist in Athens), and the dresser (on sale at an antique/junk store around the corner from our house).

We will be taking down the doors to the closets. One door did us a favor and removed itself. Doug considerately laid it gently back into place so that the next time I tried to open it it fell over on me. What a jokester. Anyway, once the doors are removed we will paint the interior of the closets blue (Sherwin Williams, Candid Blue for anyone who cares). My brother, Spencer, and Doug's dad, Lewis, have big plans to rip out everything that is in the closets now and build more useful shelving. This will probably be the most difficult and time-consuming part of the redo. We are very lucky to have two knowledgeable and skilled handy men in our immediate family. The other walls will be painted a pale grey (SW, Passive). Painting will likely be assigned to Doug and my mom, Susan, since they did such a fabulous tag team job on the basement last year. We also found a couple of poufs to stack between the closets. One will be grey and one red.

The shelving on the right will be taken down and replaced with a floating white shelf and another inspiration piece in a red frame. We are looking into a dark grey glider to go underneath that. Windows and trim will all be painted white (SW, Extra White), hardware will be upgraded to bronze and we will put up white plantation shutters.

We have picked out a beautiful white crib to go against this wall. The three pictures will go above the crib. The dresser will be painted green (SW, Sassy Green) and the alphabet letters will go above it. This will be my task and my BFF, Kenworthy, was nominated volunteered to help! We have also ordered a new light fixture for the room.

So, you can see we have a lot of work to do. Luckily, we have a while until our April 16th due date and very generous family and friends who are willing to help us. I will do my best document it all as our vision becomes reality!