AW: Nursery Art/Decor

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DH came back a little earlier than I thought he would be and took me to lunch so he's off my crap list.  And I also got to open the package of nursery art I ordered that came while I was out of town.   And I am in love.     Here they are with our crib dust ruffle & curtains.  Each one is 8X10.  I think I'm going mat them in white and then put them in 11X16 frames, painted a medium gray. Walls will be a pale grey & the furniture is oak toned.

Feel free to add pics of your own plans so I don't feel like such a snowflake.

[Bluedaisy]

That is super cute! I love looking at nursery stuff!

[kemdupuis]

Love it, jimbobcooter! I finally made a decision and bought fabric for our nursery bedding today. I am making it, so it may be a little while before I actually have something completed to show off- haha. I am having a page from Shel Silverstein's book "the Giving Tree" painted, but that's all the nursery decor we have so far. Hoping to paint and set up furniture by the end of the month. Here's the fabrics I'm working with:

[megeliz1]

Those are so cute JBC! I ordered bedding on Tuesday after we got confirmation of girl. This is the bedding I went with...

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Feb 7, 2015 19:13:03 GMT -5 @kej0004 said:

Right now our nursery decor is Dexter theme: covered from floor to ceiling in plastic sheets while we redo the ceiling. I could post a picture of the 10,000 blue/aqua/purple paint swatches we picked up today, but I'll spare y'all until I narrow it down some more.

Narrowing swatches down is painful.   I must have looked at 1000 different Etsy vendors with 12 and more swatches to choose from for each bedding set and it was so confusing.  I finally found someone whose sample photo was mixed and matched exactly in a way I loved and just bought it exactly like the picture.  

[Girlymama79]

Feb 7, 2015 18:13:56 GMT -5 kemdupuis said:

Love it, jimbobcooter! I finally made a decision and bought fabric for our nursery bedding today. I am making it, so it may be a little while before I actually have something completed to show off- haha. I am having a page from Shel Silverstein's book "the Giving Tree" painted, but that's all the nursery decor we have so far. Hoping to paint and set up furniture by the end of the month. Here's the fabrics I'm working with:

I'm sewing our too. So much work! I saw the cutest wall decal on amazon today of the giving tree.

[baileybaileybne]

Feb 7, 2015 19:59:44 GMT -5 @bubbs119 said:

Bought this after the A/S confirmed it was a girl. Still have my eye on a bunch on Etsy.

I love this! I've been looking at etsy for prints too. I bought a 'x' is for 'x...' print of our LO's name with a floral border on etsy so once that arrives I can get a few more to go in a collage.

[pghtruelove]

It is killing me not to order anything right now! We are moving to Fairfax from Tampa in less than a month with no place to live yet. Also don't want to move with a shit ton of stuff if I don't need to. We have decided on yellow and gray themed and I bought this the day we found out she was a girl.
www.etsy.com/listing/65797843/butterfly-mobile-nursery-mobiles-crib?

[turtletyme]

I just saw this on Pinterest today!

[carolyngrace]

Feb 7, 2015 20:22:08 GMT -5 pghtruelove said:

It is killing me not to order anything right now! We are moving to Fairfax from Tampa in less than a month with no place to live yet. Also don't want to move with a shit ton of stuff if I don't need to. We have decided on yellow and gray themed and I bought this the day we found out she was a girl.
www.etsy.com/listing/65797843/butterfly-mobile-nursery-mobiles-crib?

Oooohhhh I love those! Is a cream butterfly mobile for a boy ok you think?? 

[megeliz1]

Feb 7, 2015 19:27:52 GMT -5 @bubbs119 said:

megeliz1 LOVE that bedding!!

Living63.com....it's the sparrow set

[tiffbot]

I love your colour scheme @jimbobcooter !

DS still lives in the nursery, and I admit we didn't do a lot to decorate it but I plan on going out a little more for his bedroom when he moves into that, now that he has interests in things (specifically-anything farming, especially tractors haha). But since we don't plan on changing the nursery, I'll be an AW of a few of my favourite things that we did do

From Etsy:



We refinished H's old childhood dresser.  Well, my sister and H did because my sister loves painting anything.



Printed some pro newborn pics:



And picked this up off a local buy and sell page for a great price!



The crib and the glider/ottoman are also white, and have a small white rug under the chair/ottoman to keep it in place.  It's simple, but I like it all.

[billyhorrible]

Everything looks great! DH has asked me a million times if I've ordered the nursery prints yet and...I haven't. I haven't got anything. I think I figured out the bedding - there's a set I love, but basically only for the crib skirt. The crib skirt is perfect. We wouldn't use the sheets or quilt, and it only comes in a set. But the whole thing is less than $50, so I think I'm just going to order it, even if we don't use the other two pieces.

[sully326]

Feb 7, 2015 21:23:05 GMT -5 billyhorrible said:

Everything looks great! DH has asked me a million times if I've ordered the nursery prints yet and...I haven't. I haven't got anything. I think I figured out the bedding - there's a set I love, but basically only for the crib skirt. The crib skirt is perfect. We wouldn't use the sheets or quilt, and it only comes in a set. But the whole thing is less than $50, so I think I'm just going to order it, even if we don't use the other two pieces.

You could always sell the sheets & quilt. Might be an option.

[carolyngrace]

Feb 7, 2015 21:49:20 GMT -5 pghtruelove said:

Feb 7, 2015 20:34:37 GMT -5 carolyngrace said:

Oooohhhh I love those! Is a cream butterfly mobile for a boy ok you think?? 

I think that would be cute for a boy! I'm obsessed with these. We just waited because if we wre having a boy we were going to do green and yellow for a girl!

Nice Yeah my nursery is going to be pretty neutral, which I'm happy about, but I don't want people to walk in and think I'm in denial about having a boy, either!

[ladysif]

I love this! I am still struggling with DS2's nursery. FWIW for those looking at living63.com, a few of their patterns are actually on gilt.com right now on sale. Not the Sparrow though, sorry.

[megeliz1]

Feb 7, 2015 20:48:32 GMT -5 @bubbs119 said:

Feb 7, 2015 20:34:47 GMT -5 megeliz1 said:

Living63.com....it's the sparrow set

Oh I definitely stalked it! Have you ordered from there before? Never heard of them. 

I haven't but I ordered on Tuesday and it
has been shipped. They were at the big ABC kids expo in Vegas in the late fall and pictures from the expo on Pinterest is where I first saw the bedding. I'm in love!

[amber311]

These are off my phone so apologies if they are huge and/sideways. Thanks for sharing everyone! @jimbobcooter‌ I love love love your colors!

[cwatmack]

We picked our theme out this week! DH and I are both gators so it was pretty much the only choice. We were able to find the sheets and quilt on eBay for much cheaper than on the PB Kids website.

[sully326]

Feb 8, 2015 7:55:51 GMT -5 cwatmack said:

We picked our theme out this week! DH and I are both gators so it was pretty much the only choice. We were able to find the sheets and quilt on eBay for much cheaper than on the PB Kids website.

Where do you live?

[cwatmack]

In the Orlando area , what about you? sully326

[nicolec78]

Really cute ladies! You've got me excited to start looking for a few Star Wars items for our nursery.

[sully326]

cwatmack I'm an hour south of Jacksonville, so about 2 hours North of ypu . When you said you were a,gator I was like, "Wait a minute..." lol. I was born at Shands so I always,say I was born a Gator :-)

[erbear]

Question - where did you guys find drapes? I'm on a limited budget and I found some gray and white chevron ones I like, but they're 84" - entirely too long. I can't sew, so hemming them is likely not a viable option for me.

[veggiemo]

Feb 8, 2015 9:33:30 GMT -5 erbear said:

Question - where did you guys find drapes? I'm on a limited budget and I found some gray and white chevron ones I like, but they're 84" - entirely too long. I can't sew, so hemming them is likely not a viable option for me.

You could use fabric glue? No sewing required and it would still look good!

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Feb 8, 2015 9:33:30 GMT -5 erbear said:

Question - where did you guys find drapes? I'm on a limited budget and I found some gray and white chevron ones I like, but they're 84" - entirely too long. I can't sew, so hemming them is likely not a viable option for me.

You could also easily have an Etsy vendor make them for you fairly inexpensive.  The chevron is all over the place there and they can do custom measurements.   We got our bedding and curtains on Etsy.

[turtletyme]

Feb 8, 2015 9:33:30 GMT -5 erbear said:

Question - where did you guys find drapes? I'm on a limited budget and I found some gray and white chevron ones I like, but they're 84" - entirely too long. I can't sew, so hemming them is likely not a viable option for me.

I have been looking too and I also don't sew. I am told there is an ikea fabric/hem tape that works really well, and I also saw some shorter lengths on Amazon (in the 60s). 84 does seem to be the standard length. If you find something cheap on etsy please share, because I need 4 panels!

[jcprn]

Feb 8, 2015 11:36:37 GMT -5 @jimbobcooter said:

Feb 8, 2015 9:33:30 GMT -5 erbear said:

Question - where did you guys find drapes? I'm on a limited budget and I found some gray and white chevron ones I like, but they're 84" - entirely too long. I can't sew, so hemming them is likely not a viable option for me.

You could also easily have an Etsy vendor make them for you fairly inexpensive.  The chevron is all over the place there and they can do custom measurements.   We got our bedding and curtains on Etsy.

I second this. Etsy is amazing.

[erbear]

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll check out Etsy and the hem tape, too.

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So I sent that picture to my mother and she responded with an email that said "Those are unusual colors for a baby, but I guess it's ok for a boy." WTF?