Nursery!

First of all, thank you to all those who volunteered to help with the nursery! We definitely appreciate that. Sorry we didn't use you too! :) Because we work such odd hours, most of this work was done late at night or in the mornings before work, so really it just would have been too hard for people to help, but thank you for wanting to! Also we just wanted to get it done as fast as possible as we're actually going to be putting our house up for sale here very soon, so this may not even end up being a nursery, but hey. It's still more fun to think of it that way. :) Here's our finished result!

Okay, so this isn't the real picture of the nursery, this is our "before" picture from when we first bought our house. We changed out that wonderful (cough cough) pink carpet three years ago, but you can still see what we had to start with. Pink Tulip Wallpaper!


Here's a closeup so you can see better. As much as I really hated the wallpaper, luckily it was a really good quality, so we were actually able to rip down entire sheets at once, only leaving a few tiny scraps behing that we under baseboards or ceiling boards. That definitely saved a LOT of time (anyone who's ever had to destroy wallpaper before, you know).



So this is the room after we have the wallpaper down. There's still glue on the walls, but before the pink tulips there was just...well pink. It wasn't a terrible shade, but not what I wanted either.


First thing we had to do after scrubbing the walls free of all of that wallpaper glue was to fix any small holes from nails or what-not. Ricky wasn't very happy with this because he couldn't come in the room with us, so we let him peek in through the window. Even with the window open it got very dusty in there, so Jon was very careful to make sure I was wearing a dust mask at all times in the room. He's very sweet!



After fixing and sanding all of the little spots, we retexturized the walls, and to do this we had to tape off the whole window, which took out a lot of the ventilation. That wasn't too bad because, well there really wasn't anything I could do while Jon was spraying texture on the walls, but once we got to painting, I had to upgrade my mask...



And just in case you were wondering, no I do not put on makeup to paint. That's just silly. :)



And now, our first color! We decided to keep the 2-tone idea (less the wallpaper), so we used our Nimbus Cloud gray to put on the top (mostly because we still had 2 1/2 cans of this paint from when we painted the rest of our house. As you can see from the top picture, Jon is very detailed. We decided to go with a darker color on the bottom, and opted for a maroonish purpley color. I think this was called some kind of Plum color...


Yikes! When we got home and opened the paint up, we held our sample up next to it and saw that the paint we had was BRIGHT purple, not the maroonish purpley color we had hoped for. But, we decided to try it anyway, and luckily when it was dry it was the right color. :)


Jon was VERY VERY happy about that, as you can see. :) (This is why it's good to paint at 1AM - you get all slap happy and goofy!) This is right after we finished the purple and before we painted the trim.


This one just shows the trim painted and finished. The colors turned out wonderfully! I held up some light pink and light purple things next to the wall, and both look good with this color, so if we still have our house when Baby Girl arrives, then it will be a wonderful nursery! And if not, well then it's a cute room. :)

We are so excited to be done! Jon is trying to show this excitement by puffing his cheeks out, but I was making him laugh so it turned out like this! Ha ha, I sure love this guy! Anyway, we're tackling our other basement room next, but it might take longer to do because Jon is studying to take his PCAT a week from Saturday! (the 22nd) Fun times!

Anyway, that's our update. As for Baby Girl, she's still kicking up a storm and growing nice and big. :)