Lately I’ve been busy trying to get baby girl’s room ready for her arrival. I feel like I’m making progress, but there’s so much left to do! The past couple of weeks, the hubs and I have been moving furniture out of the room that used to be our guest room into the room I have been using as an office. The double-duty office/guest room actually works well for me right now…long conference calls + nearing 3rd trimester = happy mama to have a bed to prop my feet up on. But I digress… 🙂
Aside from moving furniture out of the way, we repainted the room in a really pretty greige color by Behr called Doeskin Gray. Depending on the light in the room, it appears gray or beige, which means it’s perfect for coordinating with both the dark brown furniture that I have combined with the gray chair that I’m obsessed with and hoping to get fairly soon.
Since the room isn’t very big and the furniture I have is fairly dark, is was important to keep everything else in the room much lighter so it doesn’t feel too dark and heavy. I’ve picked out some white sheer curtain panels to pair with some adorable pink blackout curtains that will be hung on a gold curtain rod. I also have two rugs picked out that I need to revisit in the store before I bring one home – one is a white shag-type rug and the other is a light gray rug with a white quatrefoil design. I really like the white one, but I’m just not sure about the rug type as far as ease of keeping it clean, so it’ll definitely be a crunch time decision. I haven’t picked out many other things for the room yet or even done any DIY projects (which I planned on doing TONS). I’m trying to do a little at a time so I can see how things look and make some decisions at that point. I know I definitely need some more gold accents in the room, as well as some more pink. I’m completely obsessed with the pink and gold and I can’t wait to have the room done and ready for the little one. And I must say, the hubs has been more than accommodating in letting me decorate however I want. I’d like to think it’s because he trusts my home decoration abilities, but really I think it’s because he has NO IDEA what to put in a room for a baby girl! 🙂
Here’s what I’ve got so far, or what I hope to have in the very near future. The crib and bookcase/shelving unit are already in the room, the curtains and curtain rods are on their way here, and I’m hoping to get a rug, chair, and pouf sometime soon. Over the next couple of days, the hubs will be putting in the new closet system and hanging new closet doors that will work better for the room than the ones we had. I’ll also get the curtains hung and hopefully we can get a rug picked out this week so next weekend I can take inventory of what else is needed and get back to shopping or DIY-ing. 🙂 Pics of the real room will come once everything has been completely pulled together – at the rate I’m going that’ll likely be when the baby is close to celebrating her 3rd birthday! 😉 Hopefully I’m just kidding…I’m actually hoping to have it all completely finished by early April to give me a few weeks to relax before the little one arrives. So check back in a few weeks to see how it all turns out! 🙂
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