welcome to ben's room

As a welcome to the new site i thought i'd finally post some pictures of baby ben's room. i am well aware of the fact that i tend to be great at starting projects and terrible at finishing them. however, in this case i really wanted the nursery to be ready before Ben arrived. When Will was a baby we were living in a tiny apartment and so i couldn't do much in the area of nursery decorating and with the girls, they were born a month early which meant we ended up closing on our new house the day they were released from the hospital and barely had a pack n play set up in time for them to come home to!

  So even though i had badly procrastinated, was induced a week and a half early and only had a day's notice of the fact, andrew, my mom, sis and i were able to put the final touches on his room just in time for me to go to the hospital. that said, Ben turned 4 months old a few days ago and i've just now finally got around to posting some pictures. :)

here's the lovely "before/ in progress" shot:

And now....... the "after"


* take notice to the orange shelves- i took pictures on a couple different days which captured the ever-evolving shelf displays. In fact, i just added to it again today. :)

Here's a rundown of the what and wheres:

Paint color: Made by Me :) from lowes. this old post chronicles our attempts at finding the perfect blue.

Rug: Target on clearance

Crib: Thrifted

Changing Table: bought for my oldest child (5years ago!)from Target. I repainted it using zinnser oil-based primer (best stuff.ever.) and then a nice gloss white latex on top

Green Storage baskets: Target

Chair: old rocking chair with a new slip-cover made with the help of 2 sweet and talented friends

Bumper pad: found it new at goodwill but is an earlier model of this one

Crib skirt: made by me using this girl's fabulous tutorial

Curtains: made by me using this fabric from fabric.com

Foot stool: one of these cubes with a reupholstered top and a white skirt stapled around the outside. Most of this work was compliments of handy andy

mobile: made by me here 

shelves: spray-painted with gloss pumpkin orange

pole lamp: Target clearance with a recovered lamp shade made here

Dresser: Given to us from my dad with new knobs from hobby lobby

Clock: Target 

Green Elephant: Clearance at Hobby Lobby painted with a curtain color matched green

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