Nursery Finished... Almost!

We have finished the nursery, finally! Well except for the mobile that I am procrastinating making. But it's complete enough to share nonetheless. We've loved creating our dream nursery for Carolyn Jo! We were fortunate to receive many of the items you see as gifts or find a really great deal. And I've even surprised myself with the amount of color I've let enter this room. So happy with how everything turned out!

Painted curtains in action! The yellow glider and ottoman were a Craigslist find and complete steal!  Not to mention it's the most comfortable chair ever. Hence why the nursery has already become our gathering spot!

 My favorite little sign above the closet, and so true!

Beautiful window pane transformed by my sister's sweet best friend and her mother! Can't wait to put Carolyn Jo's monthly pictures in the panes. And the perfect dresser made by my talented daddy! IN LOVE with it (more on this later)!!!

Carolyn Jo's crib

 

Her bookshelf is already full! We really lucked out that this built in was already here.

 

You can take away his room but not his window! His favorite spot in the house as the guard dog.

 Love these sweet monogrammed gifts!

 Seth gave me the canvas on the left on Valentine's Day when we found out we were having a girl! Fabulous Mother Teresa quote about life. And another friend of my sister's made the cute 'You are my sunshine' canvas on the right!

Her closet. Thank goodness for all this great storage! Pink is quickly taking over our house. And we wouldn't have it any other way!

You heard right... painted curtains!

I had this vision in mind for the nursery curtains. I wanted pink and white thick horizontal stripes. I could not find them anywhere in the perfect color so I planned to make them one way or another. My first thought was sewing the stripes. But seeing as how I can't really sew a straight line, I kept looking. Then while flipping through BHG one day I found them! Exactly what I was looking for. The solution -- painted curtains. Not to mention a step by step tutorial (find it here). After gathering up the supplies, I was ready to tackle them.  

Measuring and taping off the lines really was the hardest part. I think the entire project took about 3 hours! 

 So excited to get these up! Just what the room needed!

Did I forget to mention it cost less than $40 for the pair? What a steal! 

I might just have to go show this picture to the paint man. He was shocked to hear that I was painting curtains and even discouraged me from purchasing the paint! Can you believe it? More pics of the nursery to come soon! 

The Nursery

I hate I haven't shared very much about my pregnancy or the excitement of our sweet little GIRL! Yes, we have known for 6 weeks now and I haven't even shared that important little fact on here yet. But most of you already know that! I do, however, get lots of requests from family and friends of belly bump pictures and nursery updates so I promise to do better about sharing!

Let's start with the nursery! Once we found out that Baby Rohling was indeed a girl, we (well mainly me) were anxious to get to planning for the nursery! I love pink for little girls rooms! BUT I had a bad bad personal experience in High School with my pink room. After begging my parents to let me paint it pink for years, they finally gave me the go ahead and I HATED it. Lasted two weeks before I begged them to let me repaint again. Anyway, I couldn't bear the thought of purchasing pink paint! So we decided to go with grey and pink accents. I think Knox was happy we opted out of pink for his room, too! Thanks to pinterest I found so many beautiful nurseries and ideas!

I love the board and batten look and considered it for a while! 

The pops of teal are too cute!

Classic and relaxing nursery!

Loved this one with yellow instead of pink! And the stenciled wall. Looks like such a happy place!

This is my inspiration board for Carolyn Jo's room! It has taken a little different route than I initially envisioned but I love it! We picked the color right off the bat (thanks to Tina's co-worker Suzy) and the bedding from Land of Nod not long after. Then we've just been working to find cute, fun and inexpensive items to coordinate or replicate. Y'all know me and I'm doing this on a budget so we've enlisted my wonderful and talented dad to build this RH Baby dresser look-a-like and will of course have some DIY projects along the way! More details and room pictures to come!