The Nursery Part V

I almost hate to post these pictures on here because they really don't do the nursery any justice but for those of you who are far away, I want you to be able to at least kind of have an idea of how the room looks. Scott got this idea 2s weekends ago to paint the bead board a shade of blue from the wallpaper border. I was really nervous about it because I honestly couldn't picture how it would look and the picture in my head was not a pretty one. Well, this past weekend while Scott and I were at church, my dad started painting it. I have to say that I was VERY pleasantly surprised! Not only did I LOVE the blue but the whole effect was very calming. Becca and I painted the floating shelves and all we have left to do is touch up paint...which will probably take an entire weekend...hang the floating shelves and move the furniture in there. Yay! We're approaching the home stretch!!!!

The Nursery Part IV

Dad put up the wallpaper border before they left today. The pictures really don't do it justice but it's gorgeous and totally changes the way the whole room looks! You can see the curtains are up but they aren't finished. Mom still has to hem the bottom and Scott and I are going to add the buttons at some point in time too. The curtains are made from unbleached muslin and have ivory eyelet lace bordering on all sides. We still have a ton of stuff to do but I feel so much better now that we have most of the big stuff done. I am 25 weeks today...only 15 more weeks to go and I know it's totally going to fly by! Hopefully tomorrow Scott will be able to take some belly pics and I'll post them on the blog.

The Nursery Part III

My parents came this weekend to help us out with the nursery. Here are the pics from tonight. This first one is the room with the beadboard up and the second picture is after Scott got the chair rail up. Tomorrow my dad is going to put up the wallpaper border before they head back home. We still have to paint the beadboard and chair rail and also the floating shelves and we're still deciding what we want to do with the crib but we've decided not to paint the dresser. Enjoy the pics and keep an eye out because we'll add more pics as we complete new things.

The Nursery Part III

The Nursery Part II

Okay so here's part II of the nursery. I've been bugging Scott to go ahead and paint the walls but he kept putting it off. Wednesday Scott truly learned the meaning of being in the doghouse so while I was out having icecream with Jen and Ang, he decided to do some MAJOR kissing up by going ahead and painting.

We've talked about doing stripes in red and blue...it sort of looks like an old fashioned flag...but once we got the base color up Scott started thinking that maybe he just wanted to stick with this one color sooooo...I have no clue what we'll end up with.

My parents are on their way as I write this to help us finish up most of the nursery over the weekend. Basically, I will be on my princess throne directing while everyone else paints. I'm a bit disappointed about this but since the doctor has threatened me with bed rest if I don't take it easy then I'm definitely going to follow instructions!

On a side note....I am SOOOO happy because my wallpaper border arrived so we'll have that to complete the nursery. USA Wallpaper told me it was going to be at least another 2 weeks but the package was laying on the front porch when I got home. Now I had no idea it was coming since I never got the tracking number email I was promised but I'm just happy I have the border. I'll be posting more pictures throughout the weekend as different projects are completed so keep an eye out!