Noel's new room is FINALLY done & she is sleeping in her new "big girl" room :)
We are transitioning her by still sleeping in her crib for a few months and then hopefully going to get her in her new toddler bed.
We scored an adorable toddler bed on a HUGE markdown @ the Pottery Barn outlet in the early spring. It was marked down because it was missing some lock-nuts..and to my rescue...my handy hubby saved the day! After a few runs to different hardware stores he found the solution with some new thingy-majigs (if you want the full scoop you'll have to talk to him).
We made/refinished/reused nearly everything in her new room.
Being that I feel like I barely have time to breathe, I'm going to break up her room into a few posts, so I can get some things posted in spurts.
Lets start with the paint job conversation
Me: Lets do STRIPES!!! it will be so much less work because we can do them so we don't have to do the trim & cutting in around the ceiling and floor boards!!! (thinking I'm so clever)
Keith: but that's going to be a lot of laser leveling, chalk lining, and taping
Me: ahh it won't be that bad!
Keith: (keep in mind he loves me) ok
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Here is part of the tape job up. We did 2 walls of stripes and 2 walls of solid...this took quite a few hours and some sore forearms from Keith balancing the laser level over and over and over again!
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and now all the tape was up and ready to paint!
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So I don't have any pics of just the painted room..oops! But here are some sneak peaks of the new bed and the finished stripes
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Noel checking out the new bed (prior to mattress)..and a sneak peak at the duvet cover I made |
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helping Daddy put the new screws in |
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Hopefully you can catch a feel of the stripes from these shots. |
So since it is actually making its debut in this post, I'll tell you about the comforter I made too. Since we spent a good buck on Noel's nursery bedding, which included a comforter (which is silly because you don't put blankets on babies to sleep). I decided to recover her existing bunny comforter with some fun graphics.
First I did this...
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I took my new tree/fuscia fabric and made 4 panel front (with lots of help from my momma, since I am such a novice sewer) |
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so then the front looks something like this (note my model of Keith's legs underneath) |
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Then I took some brown jersey knit fabric (which is HORRIBLE to work with..mental note) and hemmed it up all around, folded it over the edges to make a border leaving lots of fabric for the opening at the bottom to make it a duvet cover that can be removed for washing. I then added buttons (and button holes..oy!) |
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Here you can see the "pocket" at the bottom with the buttons and Noel and I (and baby b) enjoying the finished product |
I got all the fabric at JoAnn's and with a 20% off coupon spent a grand total of $20..yah!! reused/recycled the old comforter and put some green in our pockets!
More of the room to come soon!