So, I've been waiting to add any pictures of the nursery until I had it all put together, but let's face it, Rome was not built in a day. We have most everything ready. Still have a few things to hang on the walls and Chuck is still going to build shelves in the closet, but we got the furniture in on Wednesday. I had already washed all his bedding, because I couldn't wait any longer. So Wednesday evening I had all the bedding in, we had arranged the furniture the way we wanted and I had his letters hung above his bed.
It was a work in progress though and lots of love to get it all ready. We started by clearing out the room. This room was always used for a playroom when our friends came over with kids. So we took the bookcase out and moved it to the guest room, which was good because we now have the TV in the guest room sitting on it. Then we sold our bookcase we had in the guest room to make room for the treadmill that was in Holden's room.
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Once we cleared everything out, Chuck and Uncle Bo installed the chair railing and in the weeks ahead Chuck spent his day off painting. We didn't have to paint the top portion of the walls because they were already tan from when we painted after we bought the house. But we did get 4 green paint samples trying to find the one that looked just right. Then I had to run all over town to find the paint that the builder used on the trim, because we were not able to paint all the trim again and I couldn't have one room of trim not matching the other rooms. But luckily I found it. And just so you know, oil based paint sucks! Not only does it stink to high heaven, but it is definitely not good for pregnant mommies to be. But that's what the builders used, so that's what we used.
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| Uncle Bo and Aunt Ashley installing chair rail |
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| Making sure it's level |
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| Paint samples |
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| Chair rail done and first coat of primer on. |
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| Surprise! Came home to painted walls. |
Once everything was painted, we just waited. Then finally the past Wednesday the furniture was delivered. I cried. I had it delivered that morning, but had to go to work once they got it set up. I really wanted to stay home and get everything set up. But it was much better to wait because Chuck and I were able to do it together.
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| Yea! Furniture. |
It was really nice having everything somewhat set up for Thanksgiving. It's rare that my in laws get to visit, so when we hosted Thanksgiving for the first time this year it was perfect timing for them to see the nursery too.
