The Nursery

When we first moved into our new house, the nursery looked like this:

So, most of the walls were white, and then the one wall had these giant, bold stripes somewhat reminiscent of the Greek flag.  Very cute for the nautical nursery the previous owners had, but not quite my style.  Fortunately for me, my husband didn't have a lot of opinions about what he wanted the nursery to look like.  He was even kind enough to repaint it in the end, despite the intimidatingly bold stripes.

I worked hard to make the nursery work with the original paint job, but after weeks of planning on changing nothing, I suddenly lost it when I realized there was no rug in the world that would look good in this room, between the color on the walls and the weird color on the floor.  I finally broke down crying over it, which in retrospect was pretty stupid.  But by that point in my pregnancy, my hormones were telling me that this was a Big Deal and that nothing would be ok until I got the nursery looking nice.  Like somehow not only would my baby notice the color of the walls but would also care about it.

So, we revamped the whole nursery around a rug that we found on Overstock.com, the Alexa Chevron Wool Rug in Ivory and Blue.  Click HERE to check it out.  We really, really like this rug.  It's pretty true to color compared to what you see on the website, and the only annoying thing about it is that it does have a chemical-ish smell at first, but other than that, we really love it.  So does our cat, when he manages to bust into the nursery.

As a result of the rug choice, we clearly had to repaint the walls, so we picked out a light aqua color, and my very sweet husband went to work.  Meanwhile, I worked on a DIY triangle bunting project.

Here are the results:

Flag bunting: DIY, Shelving and lamp: IKEA, Crib and dressing table: Graco Lauren collection, swing: Mamaroo (we bought it from Amazon.com)

Trouble.

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This rocking chair was a gift from my father to my mother for Christmas 30 years ago, when they were expecting me.  My mother did much of the re-caning herself, and gave the chair to me for Christmas this year.  Such a wonderful gift!  A quick google search isn't turning up a lot of new results like this chair, but Ebay has some similar ones.

I still need to make a new lamp shade, but other than that, it's done.  She won't be sleeping in there for a little while, anyway - for now, she's in a bassinet in our room.

The great thing about doing a nursery when we didn't know if we were having a boy or a girl is that it freed us up to put together a room that we like, without feeling pressured to impose some kind of gender-specific nonsense on our kid.  And since the baby won't be old enough to have her own opinions about her room for a few years anyway, it seems entirely reasonable that we design the room the way we want it, because she sure as heck doesn't care.  Cute as a button, but not really into interior design yet.