The Nursery!

Things are FINALLY starting to come together with the nursery. Before Christmas, we were hard at work to get it cleared out, and Mike did a great job sorting and putting a bunch of un-needed stuff (larger stuff for when the baby gets older) into the crawlspace.

Last weekend I went through Ben's old clothes and separated all the gender-neutral stuff. Just need to wash it and put it away!

I got the paint this morning.. a wonderful light fresh minty-seafoam green call Spirea. Relaxing and cozy.. I love it :D

The armchair and ottoman (Thank K & T!) is currently getting a new slipcover made out of creamy white chenille. So soft! I have the dresser, have the paint, just gotta paint it! I think I will start on that next weekend. Mike has cleared out space in the shop so I might get him to move it out there, start a fire in the stove so it's not freezing and paint away! Want it to be able to cure for a while so it's good and durable. That will be painted a creamy white like Ben's dresser, called Pot of Cream.

The fabrics.. my favourite part! I am making a pillow for the chair (and perhaps something else) out of this awesome striped fabric:


Then perhaps a valance or detail of some sort for the drapes/curtains out of this cool cottonwood branch fabric. This area always stumps me. We have a blackout roller blind already for in there, and some white drapes that tie at the top. Want a bit more colour there though. I am trying to think of a way of using a painted piece of wood/branch as the actual curtain rod, similar to what I saw in a magazine once. I already have the perfect branches from the summer when our hazelnut trees got trimmed! Can't find a pic online, so you'll have to wait and see.


And this is the funky fabric I am going to make some artwork with.. I'll leave it at that :)


Will post pics of the room as it progresses more...