The work day is dragging. My lower back hates this office chair and it's hurting (I need to find my lumbar support chair attachment). I'm wearing uncomfortable fancy pants. I'm bored. This is a recipe for a blog post to kill some time. Lucky you. ;)
This post is inspired by a reader, Kiara. I recently asked to hear what you readers wanted to see us discuss. Kiara asked about what I'm excited about next in this baby making process. Well, now that Sonia and I know the baby is a boy we can begin working on the baby's room. We are pretty excited to pick a theme, go shopping, and start decorating.
First task is to clear out the room. The room is a spare bedroom that has turned into a "dump miscellaneous stuff in this room" room. So there is a ton of random stuff in there. Lots of wedding stuff, books, magazines, stuffed animals, CDs, photos & frames, our old bed, an elliptical, RockBand drums and guitars all clutter this room. Before the junk room it was Milo's, our cat's, room. Therefore the room still has a slight stale odor of cat. Once we de-clutter the room, it will be disinfected from top to bottom. The room has hardwood floors which may require some work. Although we plan on using an area rug in the room, like a 5x5.
Next we will be selecting some paint colors and picking a design. We don’t want to have just plain white/colored walls. We will have patterned paint and/or vinyl cut outs of stuff like animals or something. We've found some cool themes like safari with vinyl trees with monkeys on them, elephants, giraffes, zebras, etc. It looked really cool. There is also the sea turtle theme. Sonia loves sea turtles and we've been collecting a lot of turtle things for the baby. Another theme idea is something with sports. We are still looking for themes and should be picking one soon.
Once we have a theme, we can paint and stick the vinyls, with the clean floor and empty room, we'll be able to fill it with furniture. Which means shopping! So we'll need to pick a crib, a rocker/glider chair, a dresser, changing table, or dresser and changing table combo, an area rug, maybe a lamp, and maybe a bassinet. There is also a "california closet" is the room. Its one of those creative space closets. We'll be setting the closet up too with all the baby's clothes. We will also be removing the venetian blinds and doing some different window coverings.
I just have this awesome vision in my head of what the finished product will look like. I wish I could post this mind-photo on here for you all to see too. =P
We are starting "Project: Room Resurrection" this weekend. It's gonna be a lot of work but totally worth it. If you have any suggestions, tips, or tricks, please let us know - we appreciate the help. This room is going to go from forgotten part of the house to heavenly sanctuary!
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ReplyDeleteThough you didn’t request them, here are some helpful hints:
ReplyDeleteChanging table: Ikea has a line of dressers called Malm, they come in different colors. The smaller one is the perfect size for a changing table. Changing pads come with a strap and a screw to secure it on to whatever changing table you have, and it works perfectly with the Malm. It will run you $60-$80 depending on whether they are on sale, a much better deal than a $200 changing table elsewhere.
Crib, rocker/glider, car seat, etc.: Walmart.com -quality products at much more affordable prices than Target and Babies R Us (BRU), often with free shipping or free site to store for pick up.
Bedding: We got the fancy bed-in-a bag that came with a crib sheet, crib skirt, comforter, and decorative bumper. The problem is babies aren’t suppose to use blankets, so the comforter is thrown over the back of the glider as decoration. Also, the bumper is super cute, but we took it off when we actually started putting babe in the crib, the bumper is just too puffy and looks like a suffocation hazard. I recommend buying the crib sheet separately, since you are going to want more than one anyways. I also recommend the breathable bumper, it keeps baby’s limbs from getting stuck in the crib slats, but they can still breathe if they end up with their face smooshed against it.
Closet: I like to fold clothes rather than hanging, particularly tiny baby clothes, so I now have a closet full of empty baby hangers. Do not buy any or register for them, you will get plenty with the clothes you and other people buy for the babe, and if you do end up wanting to hang stuff I will gladly give you all the one’s I have!
Have fun, post photos for us!
Perhaps I should have written this as a post on my own blog? Hmmm, I think I will!
And Tony, can I just say, after reading the first paragraph I thought I was writing a post written by Sonia? Back pain...uncomfortable pants...who's the pregnant one? :-)
ReplyDeleteReading, reading a post by Sonia, not writing!
ReplyDeleteLucas' room was "my" junk room before. It reminded me of one of the rooms from those hoarders shows....lol.
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