Baby room officially painted!

The baby room is officially painted and it looks REALLY good. I don't hate it at all at this point. I put one of our ornate, mahogany dining chairs in there and the mahogany looks really pretty against the gray so that makes me feel a little more comfortable with our nursery furniture choices.

Below are pictures of the accent wall. Considering it is night time and two of the overhead lights are out it looks really gloomy but it isn't in person- don't let the lighting fool you!

The rest of the room is the light color you see off to the sides.

The pictures don't do the room justice, maybe its because I used my camera phone. I'm sure once we get lamps in there and put the ceiling fan on a dimmer it will look much better.





We also picked out our fabric to reupholster our nursery chair. It was $26 a yard but we had a coupon for 40% off so that REALLY helped with the price. It isn't what I had initially set out for but I think it will look good once it is finished.

It's difficult to take a good picture of it:

This is with the flash on, it made it looks strange but you can see the pattern really well.


















Here it is draped over the chair.. the pattern doesn't look so severe at a distance. I think we will do a dark brown pipping with brown buttons to give it a little pop.


Again, it isn't what I originally had envisioned but I think the pattern will hide stains and it will look good in every other room in my house if we ever wanted to take it out of the nursery.






Earlier today we moved the chair into the baby room and we are having to rethink out ENTIRE layout of the room.. but I think we have it figured out.

We will have to purchase the taller dresser instead of the longer changing table dresser for the sake of space.

I am okay with this because I can do more with something taller since the baby will have a harder time climbing on top of it.

I am glad we took measurements this weekend because we are purchasing the furniture next weekend. It would have REALLY sucked to get the dresser only to realize it won't work. Or, if we did keep it, we would probably stub our toes or run into when we first walked in the room. 




The last thing I found for the baby's room is this fabric for the valance and possible for my mobile redo:

I found it at Spoonflower and thought it would fit wonderfully in my Snoopy themed room. I originally wanted to do the valance in a gender specific color so lighten up the gray color in the room but Stephen and I kinda would like the baby room to be as finished as possible when the baby gets here. The last thing I think we want to do is make a valance. So we decided on the gray and we could easily add pink and blue ribbons to it later.

That's all I have for today- lots of decorating decisions took place today and I am worn out!

Gray paint makes me blue

I am thankful for many things, one being the $3 paint samples at Home Depot. I started to paint the baby's room a gray color called "Creek Bend" (I think?). and while I liked it, Stephen thought it was too dark for the furniture we wanted.

By the way, this is what happens when I have a paint brush instead of a roller- yes, I know, I'm 27 not 13.. don't judge me.


We have to be careful with these paint colors because the baby furniture is dark mahogany not white. If the baby furniture we liked wasn't such an ugly, stark white the wall paint color wouldn't be as big of an issue. Now, I have to worry about the paint color looking okay with the furniture (which has never been a problem in the other 7 rooms we've painted in this house). Ugh. So we ventured to Home Depot to get more paint rollers, tape and something to fix the toilet in the guest bedroom (that's a whole other story).
We looked at various shades of light gray. I don't like light gray. Most light grays look like a dingy white, or a have a blue/green undertone. I had to walk away from the paint swatches before I started to cry (yay hormones). We settled on a color called Cathedral Gray and bought a $3 sample... I'll go mess with that here in a bit. I'm still kinda bummed because I strongly dislike light gray and I don't think what I originally want to do will "pop" against the light gray, or look as good as they would have with the darker gray.

I don't think I want to paint a stripe anymore. I had to talk Stephen into the stripe and it looks like I might have to talk him out of the stripe. I think I would rather do something like this with dark gray instead of white (not the wainscot, just the rectangular trim):

Or make something out of MDF that gives this sort of feel:

I found Design a la Mod did a really neat headboard, and I thought I might be able to mimic it but in boxes to put on the wall above the crib:

I think if I could do something like the above to break up the light gray, I might be happier. Maybe I could paint an accent wall dark gray (one w/o furniture against it).

I'm sure I'll piece it together once I can find a gray I like. I broke away from typing this blog to paint a test box, and it actually doesn't look that icky. Maybe we found a winner?

Baby's Room- the basics

Since we aren't finding out gender, it makes putting together the nursery a tad bit harder but still manageable. We are going to paint the nursery gray, ideally two different shades. I got the idea from this picture:

 At first it was going to be mainly dark gray with a light gray, horizontal strip with this white furniture:      





















When we went to look at it in person it wasn't a pretty white- it was a shiny, blue white... not the creamy, antique white that I would have wanted.But it's sister in cherry wood was MUCH prettier

 
Problem is, this messes up my whole dark and light gray scheme. So now we might have to flip flop what I wanted to do and now have a light gray room with a dark dray stripe.




    We will most likely get the matching dresser- we just haven't decided if we want the tall dresser or the long, changing table dresser. The great thing about these cribs in they convert into a toddler bed and then a full sized bed. Hopefully we will get use out of these pieces!

So now, it might look more like this. But I still like the style of the picture up top with the larger stripe. The stripe with a dark gray NOT black and no color underneath. This picture just gives a better "feel" of the colors with dark furniture I suppose

I would also like a cream, upholstered glider but they are RIDICULOUS in price. I will probably Craigslist this item for cheaper:

I've seen some decent ones on Craigslist already, but we really aren't ready to buy one yet.








Last but not least, I want a shag rug! If I can find a round one, that is what I'll get but I found this rectangular one I *love*. I don't know if I will get it in gray (since we already have cream carpet in there) or wait until baby is born and order it in pink or blue. I'm leaning towards gray =o)

Now, I know what you are thinking- "That's a lot of gloomy gray for a baby room". I plan on adding as much color to the room once baby is here through lamp shades, valance, curtains, bedspread, etc etc.


 I think this will be absolutely fabulous!