Guest Post: Rebecca's Restful Nursery

Its Wednesday and its time for another room makeover! Hooray!

Meet Rebecca, author of Ella Minnow Pea (Her personal blog where she has shared her experiences buying a home, struggling with infertility and finally adoption. Not to mention beautiful design of all kinds) and owner of The Pink Orange (two words: letterpress gorgeousness!) . Today is sharing the soothing and stylish nursery she and her husband put together for a very lucky little one. I'll let her tell you all about it....

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Hello everyone! My name is Rebecca and i am blogging from my little neck of the woods in Upstate NY. Mrs.Limestone writes one of of my favorite blogs and is a daily read of mine, so it makes me giddy that I am guest blogging here! I am really excited to reveal our nursery with you all and the "mini construction" project that we did.

As more of a visionary, and not always knowing how to get from point A to point B in home projects, tearing up the closet in the future nursery last year was a tad scary for us. Our house is old, just about 100 years so and is full of plaster and lathe. The nursery is small and with not much room for a dresser we decided something needed to change with the closet. We had talked about it and decided one day to just do it. However, i sometimes need time to absorb these things. I stepped out to get a cup of coffee for myself and my husband and come back to a rather large hole in the wall. He wasn't holding back - at. all. And so the fun began...

This was the wall to start. We are lucky to have fabulous, original moldings but didn't think about those details before starting. I mean really, what can we do with this space? The door is teeny, it is dark in there and without climbing into a cave-like space you can't possibly store a darn thing!



Here we are carefully tearing the wall down.



Here is the wall opened, and the {gulp} aftermath. Well, some of it.



Now, because we didn't think through the molding and we couldn't reuse what was there, we had to have a plan. A plan? So we trek over to Lowe's and spend some quality time together in the trim aisle putting together pieces that would best mimic what we had. We took a piece of our molding with us and we did pretty good. I was impressed with us.





Another thing we didn't think about? The floor. Yes, we didn't think that when we took the wall down we would have exposed sub-floor. Oh lord. What did we do now. We got some pricing to have it filled, but it would have involved more work and money than we wanted to spend. So, we talked to a very handy-dandy friend of ours. He had just redone his wood floors and had a few pieces leftover. We were able to cut pieces going in the opposite direction to form a border. We realized once the doors were on the closet the floor at that point wouldn't be exposed anyway. We then used clear varnish and surprisingly, things matched right up! I was thrilled. This was pre-varnish.





Once the floor was fixed, which set us back a bit because we weren't sure how to handle it we started working on our home study. So the entire room project took a back burner position. In the meantime, we looked for the closet system. This is what we have planned, but admittedly haven't purchased yet. We figured once we get matched we can start buying clothes. In the meantime, our stock pile of "stuff" sits in there. :-)

Here is the plan:




We actually found all the pieces we like at Walmart. The size is great and for built-ins we were pleasantly surprised at the quality.

With the excitement of blogging for Mrs. Limestone, we finished everything up. So, without further ado, i present our {95%} complete nursery. I still need to design the window treatments. Enjoy!

I may as well start with the closet! I was a tad bummed that the doors don't meet exactly, but with such a old home, nothing is square i tell ya. But overall, such an improvement from what was there.







Some of the details. One of my best friends bought us the adorable onesie. I can't wait to put it on our baby one day.







The side table was repurposed from a garage sale from years ago. It was pretty tall so we cut the legs down, stripped it and painted with hi-gloss spray paint.







The chair the bear is sitting in is also a really old garage sale find that has moved along with me all these years. We just stripped it (i think it was like 17 colors) and painted it the pop of yellow.






Now all we have to do is wait for our baby to find us. :-)

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Thanks so much Rebecca. A lovely space that any baby will be snoozing in in no time.