Landon’s Nursery Tour

Before

This room was Jonathan’s hobby room from the time he moved in and he graciously gave it up to be his baby boy’s nursery. It needed a lot of work done to it. A previous owner had cats that used this room as their toilet and it reeked. We would need new flooring and along with new flooring figured we might as well paint to give everything a unified look.

 

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After

We painted the walls gray and got this beautiful (although disappointingly NOT durable) hard wood flooring. We decided to go with neutral colors for our baby boy just so that if we were to ever have a baby girl down the road everything would transfer easily.

I made this hanging star wall piece for decor over his crib. It’s as easy as it looks. I just cut out different sized stars out of cardboard, coated one side in gold glitter and hung them from a stick with string that I also used to tie a loop on the stick so the whole piece could hang from a nail. I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out.

After going to Ireland, where we got both of these little lambs and the beautiful green hills were spotted with SO many adorable little fleece fluffs, I decided that a counting sheep theme was what I wanted to go with for the nursery. There are so many little sheep around the room and you can see little star and moon embellishments here and there as well. The bigger sheep in this picture was a last minute snag from the Shannon airport before we headed home. Jonathan ended up lovingly carrying the sheep with him as a carry on item for the remainder of our trip home.

When it comes to expensive baby items, I can’t stress enough the importance of thrifting. And maybe not ALL baby items of course for obvious reasons, but seeing the price of a glider at Babies R Us is something that will take your breath away. My mother who is an absolute wonderful woman found this glider at a garage sale for five dollars. She then spray painted it white and reupholstered the cushions covering them in this beautiful, soft, gray fabric that matched the room perfectly. (She also thrifted our changing table and spray painted that white – go mom!)

The reading nook is my favorite part of the room aside from the crib which I am also in love with. We are starting to collect a bunch of baby books for Landon’s own little library. He will be a very smart cookie.

I did a little video walk through of the nursery that you can watch below if you’d like to see more details from the room. Let me know if you’d be interested in seeing more updates and posts in regards to Landon like maybe a What’s In My Diaper Bag or Baby Products I’m Loving.