Baby Room Pictures!

38 Weeks!

Things are shaping up around here! I finally feel like I'm starting to feel more prepared for this little guy to arrive! Good thing, since I have just 2 weeks left! The baby's room is finally complete, minus a few little things. Yesterday I was able to get our neglected living room clean and most of the kitchen. Let's not even talk about the basement though which is quickly filling up with boxes of stuff that need to be sorted, thrown out or stored.

I was finally able to get our printer out of the crawl space and set it up....yea! This has been in it's unopened box for well over a year now and somehow ended up in the crawl space before we had some people move in with us. Access to the crawl space is through the guest bedroom closet, so we've been without a printer for as long as we've had people living with us. You never really know just how much you need a printer until you don't have one.

Anyway back to the baby's room! Here are the completed pictures!

A few months ago I had found this wall decal on etsy with a tree and an owl that I really loved, but couldn't justify spending the money on. I then decided to go with an owl theme, until I got this super cute elephant picture (you can kind of see it in one of the below pictures) in the mail from my good friend Sara (yes, out of my 7 seven closest friends, 3 of them happen to be named Sarah - it can get kind of confusing). So, I decided to switch the theme up to elephants. These little wall decals are so cheap and add so much to a room! I'm really happy with how it turned out!

I've never been a person that prefers polka dots and stripes together, but since I needed an area rug and already had this one sitting around (fall clearance at Target 2 years ago for $5.00) I decided to see if I could make it work with the polka dot crib sheets and throw pillow (also clearance from Target) and think it actually doesn't look so bad! Definitely forcing me out of my box, and I still can't say that I prefer it 100%, but it still works!

Changing table - you can kind of see the elephant picture I mentioned. The changing pad cover was also clearance at Target from a totally different line than the crib sheets, but somehow the colors still match perfectly and they look like a set that goes together!

Other side of the room.

You all know I'm a cheap wad, but I actually spent more money on the baby's room than I think I have ever spent on any room of any house we've had (see our guest room for under $100 here ) .

That being said, I think we still got a pretty good bargain on this room considering how much new furniture we bought for it. I spent a total of $450 on baby's room, but that includes the crib, crib mattress, dresser/changing table, glider chair (which was originally over $500 in itself until we found it on clearance), wall decor, crib sheets, changing pad and covers, area rug, curtains, curtain rod, throw pillow and paint). One of the dressers -the one that looks a little beat up (above) and the lamp we already had.

I'm happy with how everything turned out - mostly I'm just happy that we were able to finish it before our little guy arrived! I'm also pleased with the green paint. I was nervous that it might look bad with all the other different greens in the room, but I think it turned out okay.

Here's a before pic taken before we moved everything out so Steve could start painting. It's amazing what a little paint and TLC can do!

Check out the hideous curtains (all wadded up). Those were courtesy of the previous owners - I was very happy to throw them in the trash!