A Nursery Is Complete

So, after deciding that we would be better off re-using Makayla's furniture for the new baby's room, it was time to get to work, literally. The spare room in our house was used as a catch all, a scrapbook room, a craft storage space, a computer room and our dogs room. It took me weeks to creatively re-organize all that needed to stay inside. Our house is small and most of the storage space we have in the house was used. I now have my scrap booking and craft supplies stored in FOUR spaces! A couple of our kitchen cabinets open from the dining room side, so both of those are now filled with supplies, an antique buffet was emptied and is now full of supplies, my old toy box from when I was a child now houses completed books, and half of the floor in my closet is now stacked with totes of supplies. I really tried to purge but I really do use it all! Our pup got a new kennel and his new home is now in the dining room, the computer desk went to the curb & within minutes we had a lady knocking on the door asking for help to load it into her car! I had tried to sell it for a couple weeks, but without any interest I said pitch it. I mean who really uses a desk anymore, now that we traded up from the desk top to the lap top we never did either! So the room was finally empty! It was debated for a couple weeks if we strip it down to the studs and re-sheet rock it or if we just tried to smooth out the wooden panels that were painted many many many times in the past. We figured to save money we would sand. And sand we did, the cool thing about it after sanding many layers of paint off, we came across my hand prints from when I was a child. A little background for you: I lived in this house growing up! My parents divorced and sold the place when I was in I think the 3rd grade. Sanding took forever! Next up we would skim coat the entire room and sand again. That's when I realized that I didn't take a before picture so here ya go:

 The walls skim coated and then again sanded.

Next up, paint! By now we knew we were having a girl! Makayla's nursery was done in Classic Pooh, her walls were a soft yellow. I have never liked the idea of having a pink or purple nursery so I started shopping around for a crib set. I had my heart set on this pink and grey set. Only problem was each piece was sold separately and the comforter for the crib was $400! The bumpers were another price, the crib sheet another, the valance another, well you get the drift! I couldn't bring myself to pay that much money for such small items, so I kept shopping. After getting big sis' input, I picked out a owl set from good ol' wally world online and waited for it to arrive. It has three basic colors; green, pink and brown. Staying away from a pink nursery, I decided for green. Color matching for fabric doesn't work so well on the machine at Lowe's, so after the guy handed me a huge swatch of colors, Princess Pea Green from Disney's color line matched the best. My grandma offered to paint the room when were were ready so I called her up and her and my grandpa headed over. Can't see the wall color that well, but here it is, Princess Pea Green:

With the new crown molding, also thanks to Grandma for picking this up for us!

Now onto the new flooring. The before is a YIKES!(On a positive note, I have a before!)

The after, I love it so much I can't wait until we can do the entire house! A special thanks here to Papa Jerry for the floor installation. We tried our hand at it, but I couldn't bend over that well as by now I was 7 1/2 months along.

On to decorating. The foundation was built now comes the fun part.

My piece of art. I drew a 24" letter E onto a foam insulation board and "sawed" it out by hand. The I wrapped the E in felt and proceeded to cut 1,000+ 3" flower shaped felt pieces. Thanks to granny Lisa for letting me borrow her big slice. I would have never made it had I cut them from hand! Folded each flower into 1/8ths and pined each into my felt wrapped foam insulation. Very long process, but look how great it looks!

One of two shelves made by papa - this one showing each of her piggy banks waiting on her also 100% made by papa! 

The crib wall, a couple of shadow boxes - made by papa with the big E.

 The rocker all cleaned up!

From one side...

To the other... 

Miss Emma's room is finally all complete & ready for her to move in (when ever mom decides that she is old enough to stay in her own room, for now the play pin in mom and dads room is working just fine!)

A Growing Girls Room

Before we could get started on a new nursery, we knew that big sis would need a new room too! After all, going shopping for new baby furniture turned out to be a bust on the budget that I was sticking to.  Instead of new baby furniture we opted for a growing girl new furniture. Her crib had converted into her full size bed, her changing table into a dresser, the armoire still as the armoire and the glider rocker was wrapped and stuck outside for storage. At our old house the rooms were a lot bigger than the ones at our new house, so her room was a tight fit and there was not much space for "playing". We searched for space saving furniture and something that would not be too childish that she would be able to eventually take off to college with her! We found a great full size bed with under bed dresser and a bookcase style headboard. The dresser had a media style dresser option and best of all a small desk for homework! I'm not the best with taking complete before pictures, I get to gun-ho and away I go!

Her room before: a yellow and blue design with flowers and butterflies, let me also mention that she choose this for her room when we moved in 3 years ago! 

Her room after: A hot pink and neon green design, again she was designer with a little guidance from mom. I wanted her to make it exactly how she wanted it and I also don't want to feel the need to re-do her room in another 3 years!

Her new bed and wall colors!

The new window valance box - a basic idea taken from pinterest & transformed by me.

On the hot pink wall!

Her new media dresser & desk. MAKAYLA letters modge-podged with sparkle scrapbook paper. Another inspiration from pinterest! (on the lime green wall)

Finally, her new hair bow holder, idea also taken from pinterest!

Sorry for the quality of pictures, with these bright colors I couldn't get any exposure right!