Nursery - Part 1 - Teaser

I've mentioned the plans for the nursery (aka the old workout room) before and have posted my inspiration board and some ideas that I have been mulling over for the room.

Hubby and I came up with a budget for the stuff that we needed for the baby's room (not a big surprise we are budgeters and bargain shoppers).

So far in the room we have: the crib, the mattress, the rocking chair/glider, ottoman and now we have dresser.

I wanted a good size dresser because the closet is small in the room and more storage will be needed as the baby grows. Also, I did not want to do a dresser AND a changing table because I have heard that a changing table is a waste of money and eventually goes unused (since you will basically end up changing the baby anywhere in the house, not just the changing table).

So, my plan was to have a changing pad on top of the dresser. Thus, I wanted a dresser that was long enough to accommodate this and yet still have space for other things on the dresser.

I had come across the IKEA hemnes dresser on several blogs and on several pinterest boards in various nurseries.I fell IN LOVE!! I lusted over it. Pined over it. And was able to convince hubby to get it. This was a bit of a budget buster, but we came under budget in other areas so hubby agreed. He was a bit reluctant. (NOTE: later after it was put together he said "good call on the dresser, babe". So, I think that he is glad the we tweaked the budget and got it).

So here are picture of the dresser and a teaser of some of the other items in the room. Once its complete I will do a blog with the nursery revealed and giving more details about what we did etc..

So, Tucker's nursery Part 1 (click pictures to make them larger)

 we cut Jerry's Yao Ming Fat head up and used it to make letters for the remainder of Tucker's name.

Little Tuck is my sunshine :-)

The finished dresser. I love it! Can we move it to our master bedroom? LOL If Tuck doesn't like it when he is older, I will take it :-)

Yao no longer plays for the rockets so we cut him up

 Had to put together 8 drawers, yup 8.

 Hubby got the dresser standing rather quickly!

Look at my wonderful husband handling that WOOD hehehe lol

 Hubby organized all the parts and boards etc before starting and let me tell you there were A LOT of pieces. All the pieces were a bit overwhelming to me.  He's so organized. I just wanted to jump right in and get started...Yup, I'm type A.

 

SO, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE ROOM SO FAR?????????