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!
Showing posts with label Nursery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nursery. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
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!
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!
Hello World!
Well, I am finally joining the blogosphere. Better late than never, right? I have never felt compelled to start a blog but recent events have changed my mind. Doug and I are expecting a baby in April and there are some big changes taking place around Casa de Belknap that I want to be able to share with family and friends. Many of the people we love are scattered across the globe so a blog seems like a good way to keep everyone up-to-date on what's going on without plastering it all over Facebook. So, let's begin.
Doug spent the weekend golfing at Lake Lanier. That's a good-looking group. I especially like that they color coded their teams.
While the boys were away the girls kicked off the nursery extravaganza. I had been collecting "inspiration pieces" for several years knowing that we would eventually have need of a nursery. Unfortunately, I was not born with a decorator's eye. I tend to reach a certain point in decorating and then shut down. I also have a horrible track record with paint colors so I like to rely on the professionals. Enter Dan DeSantis. He has helped my mom and me out on several other rooms in our houses so we invited him down Friday to help bring my vision to life. As usual, we are thrilled with what he came up with and I will be sharing our progress on the blogknap.
I am also hoping to convince Doug to write a few guest posts so check back for updates! I am also working on my photo-taking and editing skills so look out for more picture heavy posts coming soon!
Doug spent the weekend golfing at Lake Lanier. That's a good-looking group. I especially like that they color coded their teams.
While the boys were away the girls kicked off the nursery extravaganza. I had been collecting "inspiration pieces" for several years knowing that we would eventually have need of a nursery. Unfortunately, I was not born with a decorator's eye. I tend to reach a certain point in decorating and then shut down. I also have a horrible track record with paint colors so I like to rely on the professionals. Enter Dan DeSantis. He has helped my mom and me out on several other rooms in our houses so we invited him down Friday to help bring my vision to life. As usual, we are thrilled with what he came up with and I will be sharing our progress on the blogknap.
I am also hoping to convince Doug to write a few guest posts so check back for updates! I am also working on my photo-taking and editing skills so look out for more picture heavy posts coming soon!
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