Nursery/Guest Room

If you read my project blog too (http://www.mokru.blogspot.com/), I am going to apologize for reposting this here...just thought it would be nice to have stuff about the baby and his room on our personal blog too.  I've seriously been in nesting mode and if you don't believe me, you'll see that not only have I done the below projects but a few others as well (http://mokru.blogspot.com/2011/02/for-my-boy.html).  And I still have a few more things planned for baby boy as well as myself. We'll see what I actually get done!

Finally kind of got our nursery/guest room together. Yes, we are not getting rid of our guest room which really only is used for 1 set of guests - my hubby's parents. Baby boy does not need his own room for awhile as he can easily stay in our room when necessary.

It's not completely done (still one naked wall and a pink pillow that needs to be recovered) but it looks so much better. I really stink at before photos...I would blame it on the pregnancy but I know that is not why I don't take them. I just forget and get excited and jump right in without thinking about the fact that people like before/after photos. I know I do.

Anyways, here is the crib shot with the letter paintings I made (all paintings in this room were previous paintings I had done - after them hanging in our house for 5+ years, it was time for a change so I did not mind painting over them).

Bedding is Dwellstudio for Target (I love DS stuff..too cute) and crib is our old one we used for Ava 4 yrs ago.

 Close up (or closer) of the paintings before they were hung. I did each letter in a different font using the colors in the baby bedding. Although the pictures make it hard to see, each one is distressed a bit and has cracks/stain on it. I covered each canvas in newspaper strips and mod podge, then painted, sanded, applied crackle paint, and applied stain for the look. I kind of like that they are not perfect. The photos really don't do these justice.

 Shot of the guest bed and new curtains (darn wrinkles won't come out...anyone know how to get wrinkles out of twill/acrylic backed curtains? can't wash them and the iron did nothing). The painting above the bed used to be of 2 girls dancing on a red background but I whipped out a quick color block painting to tie the bedding colors of the guest bed to the new baby bedding.

 Close up of painting. Seriously this thing took like 30 minutes for me to make and I actually really like how it turned out.

 And a shot of the room looking from guest bed out. This painting was inspired by one I saw on the blog How About Orange. She had painted this for her living room (in different colors and in a more professional way) and I thought it was so cool that I made my own version. Again I distressed it a bit so the colors would be a bit more muted and match better with everything in the room.

Other than these changes, we just bought a cubicle system for inside the closet (you know the kind with canvas bins...we got ours in light green, khaki and chocolate) and put some baskets on the shelves in there to hold all the baby essentials (diapers, wipes, blankets & burp cloths).