Nursery, Phase 2

First of all, I realized today that I am obsessed with reading other people's blogs. Not to mention the fact that I find myself disappointed to find out that they haven't posted anything new. And who is the worst about not posting anything new? That would be me!! So to those of you that feel disappointment that I haven't posted anything new in a couple of weeks, my apologies to you. :)

I said that I would post pics of the nursery process. The painting was very successful and took way less time than I thought it would. The first day I painted for a total of about 5 hours and got the insides of the closets and all of the light green walls finished. The second day I did a second coat on all of the light green walls for a total of about 2 1/2 hours. The third day I did the crib wall (with Ryan's help around the ceiling and trim) and that only took a couple of hours (Ryan also had to touch up around the ceiling on the light green walls). The fourth day was Ryan and me doing second coats on the crib wall for maybe 1-1 1/2 hours. Not bad at all! Considering last summer I painted our kitchen/dining room/informal living room (for those that haven't been here, it's one long rectangle) for a solid week and each day was a full day of painting (the first couple of days were literally 12 hours of painting!). So this year's painting was a huge success. :)

Yesterday morning we (when I say "we" I mean "Ryan"!) finally got the crib put together. This is a story in itself. For whatever reason, Ryan and I have horrible luck buying furniture. As in, when we get it home there is always something wrong with it. I swear, I'm not making this up! I could tell you about our furniture-buying adventures, but that's another post in itself! Anyway, we get the crib home and Ryan intends on putting it together that night because he knows how excited I am about seeing it completed. Well, one of the side pieces has this really bad flaw on the top. Upon examining the other pieces, Ryan realizes that one of the legs looks more like it's brown (it's supposed to be black). So back to the store we go the next day to exchange these pieces out. Problem solved. However, the next time Ryan tries putting the crib together he realizes that what he thought was the bottom of the legs was actually the top and two of the legs are really messed up. Back to the store again. Oh well, it's now all finished. However, there is no mattress or bedding yet! I ordered bedding from ebay and it's supposed to be in soon and when it comes in I'll go to Target and get a mattress so I can get all of that put together!

Now to explain the pics I'm posting. I just went around the room and took pictures of everything. Under the window is our guest bed. I bought new bedding for it and turned it so that it would look sort of like a daybed or perhaps even a couch.

To the right of the bed is one of the closets. This is the one that will actually house clothes. As you can see, we moved a dresser into the closet as well.

The other closet is going to be used as a changing area. The bookshelf you see in the closet is going to be our "changing table" (even though it has a car seat on top of it at the moment!). The only thing I have to do is get one of those changing table pads.

To the right of that closet is my really comfortable chair and ottoman (albeit not exactly gorgeous in color, but who cares!) and a trunk we got from my grandma's house that we're going to use as a toy chest. Right now it's not exactly safe for a baby (well, for any child!) but we'll work on that. And the other day I came up with the idea (since the piece is old and well-used in the first place!) that it would be so cool to paint it with chalkboard paint. So I think that might be what I do because it will help it match the decor in the room anyway, and what kid wouldn't love that!

Lastly is the crib. At least you can get an idea for it, even if it isn't all the way made up!