Setting up the nursery...

Our biggest project yet has been the addition of our son in 2006. Of course, that project meant we would be doing another house project as we worked on making his room ready. (We also finished off the upstairs painting in the guest room and hall bath while we were at it.) We decided to go with a happy yellow room and made two-tone stripes with painter's tape. Neil realized we could get a crisper line if we painted over the edge of the tape in the light color before we added the dark color on top. That way there was no bleeding though the tape and no squiggly lines.


Next came molding about 3/4's the way up the walls and matching baseboards. The rest of the house currently has stained boring contractor molding, so we plan to update all of that eventually to wider white trim.


We went with blue above the molding and on the ceiling. It gives the room a good glow at night and brightens it a bit. We weren't originally planning on this color crib, but it turned out better than what we thought we wanted and is a good contrast to the light walls.


The corner of the room has a nice little nook where it sticks out over the stairwell. It was a perfect place to add custom shelves built by Neil and create a little reading corner. The changing table was originally mine as a baby. It was white with blue drawers and after 30 years it was a tiny bit beat up. So we added trim to the drawer fronts and base sides and painted to match the yellow of the room. It's nice to have a little history in the little one's room.


These pictures were all taken before the baby arrived, so the room seems a little bare. It certainly has much more personality now as it is very lived in..... toys and books everywhere and a little guy crawling all over everything. I'll add some current photos soon.