Nursery Updates #2

So here are a few quick updates on the nursery for ya!

Remember our blinds/curtains?

Well can you see the massive amount of light coming into this space? I love it, and it might not be an issue if Cole wasn't crazy sensitive to light...sound...pretty much everything! So, we need blackout curtains. We got some excellent ones recently, however they are pretty bulky and take up a lot of space in the room. We came across this post on Honey & Fitz and are going to try their technique to fix up the blinds this week! We'll be posting the results soon.

Cole has become a ninja when we change him, so that cute little "prints" picture that we mounted about his change table is going to have to come down. He literally almost rips it off the wall when we are changing him. So, I'm on the hunt for something else to fill that space.

Lastly, when we first found out we were expecting, the first thing I bought were the Blabla Dream rings for the nursery. I loved the natural/hand-made feel of them, and was super excited to put them in the space. We were then given another beautiful handmade mobile that also looked gorgeous in the space. In the end, this mobile won out (especially since it was a handmade gift to us):

Lately though, Cole has been loving the handmade toys. He loves his handmade Blabla dolls:

so we thought the Blabla dream rings would be a hit above his crib:

When we tested them out, he preferred the original mobile. I think he likes to watch all of the moving pieces, and so we're now on the hunt for a good place for the dream rings. I found a pin on Pinterest where a clever idea was to put them in front of the window or even a mirror, so that might be the next idea!

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We also want to thank all of you who have pinned or asked us questions about our Nursery! This room was incredibly special for us, and it means so much that you enjoy it as much as we do. We truly put our heart and soul into that room to make it our own...the perfect space for our little guy. So thank you for pinning- it means a lot to us!

So those are the small updates we've got going on around here right now...along with a few other, more involved projects. Take a peak at our Facebook page to see what else we have going on. We posted a picture a few days ago to give you a clue as to what else we're working on!

Melissa and Ian

Nursery Idea Board

I've had a lot of people ask me about the "theme" or style for our nursery. The funny thing is, I've had a hard time answering that question! We've known what we wanted for our nursery for a looooong time, (we had both "boy" and "girl" nursery designs planned out), but I don't think we really ever had a theme in mind.

We looked at a LOT of nursery's online and collected a lot of ideas but we also wanted it to have our own style. The concepts we liked were calming, vintage, relaxing, natural, eclectic, rustic and warm. We wanted the nursery to have a put together, just not "matchy" feeling to it and we loved the idea of incorporating neutral colours and injecting vintage, rustic and contemporary pieces into it.

The main piece we used as inspiration, was an old rocking horse I picked up at a second hand store...for a mere $12.00. Its one of our favorite finds to date and we just loved the vintage feeling from it and the fact that it was handmade. I was also given this little guy from a friend and loved his rustic look.

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We also come across this adorable car from Indigo kids, and knew it was perfect for the nursery. We had some wonderful friends and family go in together on this gift for us, and it looks absolutely perfect in the nursery space:

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So you can see our nursery is really a mix of many things. Basically we ended up with a variety of different textures and materials in the room. I designed an idea board incorporating ideas we had found online along with my our inspiration and ended up with this:

There are still a lot of aspects to the room that we did not include on this board, but that we have added along the way. The nursery has been coming together very nicely, and we can't wait to show you all the finished product :)

Have any of you been designing a nursery lately?! Did you have a theme in mind?

Melissa and Ian