These days I'm into decorating my home. I've been reading tons of interior design blogs and websites and perusing Pinterest when I have down time. I plan on sharing my house in its original state and the changes I've made over the next little while. I don't really have any natural talent for decorating, but I'm doing my best to learn and to make my house feel like a home.
So, this post takes us back to the first room I ever really decorated from scratch. Sigh. It really doesn't seem like very long ago.
Laney's very first nursery was in a rental house, so I wasn't able to make any changes to the room itself. I was very happy with how it all came together, however. We did find out that Laney was a girl before she was born, so this room was off limits to our family and friends as we kept it a surprise until birth.
We bought our first house when she was about six months old. I was so excited to decorate a house for the first time. Laney's room was the very first one we finished. Mike installed the chair rail around the room and I painted everything. I chose this light green, (Behr Disney- Skipping Stones) for the top half of the wall and a warm white for the bottom as I didn't want the room to end up looking like a pink explosion. I wanted to be able to change the colour scheme easily in case I ever had a boy.
The curtains I made from a children's themed pink toile fabric I ordered online from fabric.com. I used very basic online instructions to make them lined with blackout fabric. Laney has always been a light sleeper so being able to make the room as dark as possible was necessary. My regret about the curtains is that I should have made them bigger and hung them so that they were higher and wider. Like
this. When I did my second nursery, I hung my curtains high and wide and even though the window is the same size as Laney's it looks twice as big.
The picture with the Amish girl is something we bought in Pennsylvania to honour Mike's roots. His mother's side was Amish. I had it framed at Michael's when they had a sale on.
The painting was done by Mike's grandmother and I love it in here.
The dresser is a family antique passed down to me from my grandmother. It isn't super sturdy and I would like to have a professional fix it up a bit down the road.
The Peter Rabbit picture was found by my mother-in-law at an antique sale. I love it.
I really wanted a traditional looking nursery with soft soothing colours. This was probably my favourite room in the house (and still is even though a lot has changed in there). The kids' rooms are definitely the only rooms I feel are "finished."
I love using old and new things when I'm decorating and since I'm a little sentimental, it is nice to use items that have been passed down along with adding new things I love.
