Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Making room for baby

We have began planning the nursery, and I must say that I have been in paint sample HELL!
When we first moved in our home back in 2009, we had already decided that the room that we currently use as a workout room would eventually become a nursery. The gym equipment currently in the room will be moved to hubby's man cave/game room. Hubby plans to change his sports-game/poker room to a theater/movie slash workout room.

So, back to the nursery. We have gotten so many paint chips and thought we found one that we like. In which we then would go buy the actual paint sample to only realize that the color is all wrong and have to go through the whole process again. Ughhhh! Frustrating.

I finally decided to look on pinterest for some ideas. This helped tremendously, I was able to see the paint colors in actual rooms with furniture and with various lighting before spending $2.87 again for YET another paint sample. Seriously, I think we spent enough on samples to equate to one gallon of paint. :-/

So here's how the room looks currently.








Here's from the corner of the room looking towards the door. The room is rather small about 12x12.




Here's what we had been going through in the decision process. Looks fun, huh? There is the diaper stacker that we hung there to compare to the colors and theme that we wanted to go with.


We finally decided on this color. Benjamin Moore's Palladian Blue. It was gender neutral. The color is a blueish green color and I think will make a great backdrop for the lamb theme that we are going with. We thought the solid greens were a little too matchy matchy with the diaper stacker.
NOTE: we are going to get the paint color matched in behr paint.
Here's a picture from pinterest of the color in various rooms:
I love this pic



I like it A LOT!! I really want a nice light airy feeling for those 2am feedings and sleepless nights.

I began a inspiration board that has pics of some ideas that I have for the room. Dark espresso  crib, white dresser with changing pad on top (again I didn't want the furniture too matchy, matchy or too many dark woods making the space appear smaller) , dark espresso knobs on the white dresser, lamb mobile, white sheepskin rug, white/ivory rocking chair with ottoman, colored pillow in chair, lamb rocker, small bookshelf, patterned curtains, hanging baskets to keep toys and etc tidy, and last by not least that lovely palladian blue color. So what do you think? Any suggestions or changes are EXTREMELY welcomed!!!!!!! This is only in the draft/planning phases.
 Let me hear from you
















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