Wednesday, December 10, 2008

'Tis the Season to Have a Baby: Nursery Tour

(Not us.)

Sterin! Excitement is in the air for us and our good friends Steve and Erin as they await the arrival of their first child, Carter. He's due next week and can come literally any day now! It feels like just yesterday when they told us!


{the adorable bump full term baby in front of our tree}

When Erin started thinking about the nursery, she came to me for help (yay!). I immediately showed her one of my favorite nurseries, and she liked it as well. It's the perfect inspiration because in CA you can't gamble with putting anything that can fall above baby because of earthquakes. So I told her we can nail the art to the wall with picture moulding, and thank god Steve is the handiest guy I know!

He built all the mouldings in this room and also cut the plexiglass for the frames.

Inside the square they used the lightest color of paint in the room, and had Lowe's lighten it by 50%. This is an easy way for you to make your own custom color.

As for the art, it was done by yours truly. I took the bumper and squared off four sections with painters tape and copied the shapes onto paper - this is an easy way to see something "zoomed in".

I loved this project because it is so special to the couple - Steve spent a good part of their early marriage overseas in the Military, so this is a special way the couple and their new baby can honor his time over there. (Thank you for fighting for this country, Steve!)

The second reason I loved this project was because when I copied the camo shapes onto the wall they turned from camo into abstract art - I especially love that one of the shapes I copied turned into looking like a little duck... do you see it? :)




This rocker is COMFY!


We made this side of the wall's picture molding the same size as the other wall. I love that there is so much extra room inside of the square; I imagine when Carter gets here and Sterin takes all the adorable pictures of him, they can put them up in picture frames and create a picture collage inside the picture moulding.

And speaking of babies.... I have a little baby (read: project) in the works for my 1 year anniversary of blogging! Nothing too exciting, but I'm pretty excited about it!

17 comments:

  1. Hi Bryn! Love this nursery! Will you post instructions on how to make the picture molding? I'm sure it's a lot easier than I'm imagining, but for some reason I can't figure it out! Thanks!

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  2. I LOVE painted moulding like that. It looks great!

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  3. Aww, the nursery is gorgeous! I have the furniture from your inspiration room and I the same glider that your friend has (and I LOVE both!) I also have a 4 month old son named Carter ;)

    Congrats to your friends!

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  4. Hi! I've been a lurker on your blog for quite some time. I love all your ideas! I HAD to comment on this post. My baby's nursery walls are completely bare because for that same reason...we live in Cali (the earthquake state)! This is such a great idea! I'm emailing it to my husband right now! =)

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  5. This painting looks awesome :) Great job!

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  6. Love this! Turned out so perfect, just like the shower you had for her!

    And just FYI - your post is up at Jeune Marie, in case you wanted to send your readers over for a peek!

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  7. Great Job! I'm also interested in the picture molding.

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  8. the one on the bottom left looks like dog too! cute nursery!

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  9. So cute! I love the subtle reference to Steve's military service. My husband spent the first 14 months of our marriage In Iraq also. Their little one has A LOT to be proud of! Thanks Steve and Erin!

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  10. what an awesome idea! looks so great :)

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  11. Beautiful Bryn... I love the abstract pictures - what a great idea for California! Well done!

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  12. The abstract images look great. Do you have a pattern?

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  13. The abstract images look great. Do you have a pattern?

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  14. Beautiful Bryn... I love the abstract pictures - what a great idea for California! Well done!

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  15. So cute! I love the subtle reference to Steve's military service. My husband spent the first 14 months of our marriage In Iraq also. Their little one has A LOT to be proud of! Thanks Steve and Erin!

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  16. Great Job! I'm also interested in the picture molding.

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  17. This painting looks awesome :) Great job!

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