The reason I have not posted any nursery pictures is that I am a damn perfectionist, and because the room does not look like one of those “Us Weekly” Kelly-Ripa’s-exclusive-nursery photo spreads, I have been putting it off. After all the hours BC put into the refinishing, I wanted to have breathtaking photos that would elicit gasps of envy. But I don’t. Also, we still haven’t got the crib back from our friends, whose baby is still using it, but the deal was that they would transition him out of it, and besides Kaitlyn will sleep in our bed for a few months anyway. O-KAY! So here is what I’ve got so far.

The room originally had beigish-tan walls and dark brown carpet. Under the carpet? Beautiful, original hardwood floors soaked with dog pee. That’s right, we signed the papers and bought the house, funky smell and all, not realizing that the previous owners’ dog had been using our future nursery as a toilet.

We debated over re-carpeting versus painting the floor versus installing laminate. Laminate won. But first BC rented a floor sander and removed as much of the finish as he could, then primed and painted the walls so that any drips would be covered up by the laminate. Ryan and Nathan helped with the priming.

Next came two coats of “Ballerina Gown” pink wall paint, and a wallpaper border hand-picked by BC. There was paint leftover so they even painted the inside of the closet.

Nathan helped install the flooring. The lighting is bad here.

Here’s the view looking at the closet, you can see the flooring and the border. I saw one of those celebrity-mom-nursery photo spreads where they had taken the doors off the closet and I thought it was a good idea, especially since this is a small room already.

That’s all I have so far. Once we get the crib back it will go on the opposite wall from the closet, the changing table is to the right in the picture. We still need a rug to go in the middle of the room but so far we haven’t seen anything we like that we can afford. If anybody has any suggestions about cute rugs please post a link!

Oh yeah, it’s still missing one thing- the BABY!

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