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Our Baby Boy Nursery!

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Fashion & Style

We finished our nursery a few weeks ago, but I wanted to save the big reveal until after our son had arrived! He'll be sleeping in our bedroom for at least the first few weeks, but I am so excited at how beautiful his room turned out.

As I've written about before, when we bought our house, furniture was a bit of an afterthought -- we were moving from a small apartment into a big house, and our first six months as homeowners were focused on saving up to put in the pool (not an easy task when you just put a down payment on your first house!). So I had a very limited budget for furniture and decor -- I tried to use what we already had, and added accents where we needed them.

But for the baby's room, it was a different story. It started as a complete blank slate -- at one point, the room was supposed to be an office for me (the "Sugarlaws" room), but I was working full time and never ended up using it. So it became... a junk room.

And if you think I'm exaggerating, I'm not. I'll try to dig up some "Before" photos so you can see the transformation for yourselves, but I'll tell you, flat out, this room was in bad shape.

Garbage bag full of clothes we don't wear? Throw it in the Sugarlaws room. Random furniture that doesn't work anywhere else? Sugarlaws room! Bulky photography equipment? No need to clean it up, we can just close the door! No one goes in there anyways, so who cares?

Yup... not exactly a beautiful, serene baby's room.

So when I found out I was pregnant, the first thing I did was to throw away or donate every single item in that room that wasn't necessary. The rest, I organized carefully into the closet, so that the room itself was completely empty.

Blank slate.

And then I started to have fun.

I had two Pinterest photos as inspiration for this room (here and here), but I knew from the first moment that I wanted the color scheme to be turquoise. After searching through tons of bedding (and even flirting with the idea of custom-made), I settled on the Harper pattern from Pottery Barn, and then built the rest of the decor around its aqua tone.

And then I did a crucial thing: on Black Friday, I took advantage of every sale I could find, and ordered everything in one huge shopping day. I ordered the rug, the crib, the bedding, and the glider all in the space of maybe 3 hours, taking advantage of the best deals I could find. Then, I filled in the details with some personal touches: my sister gave me a beautiful lamp from Restoration Hardware, Chad's old Care Bears and Popples, and too many more to name (including so many wonderful registry presents from our friends and family, which I am so grateful for!).

All in all, I'm in love with this little room, and it's given me a bit of the decorating bug for the rest of our house. There's something so exciting about having an idea and bringing it to life -- especially when you know that you're doing it for someone you care so much about! As much as I adore this room now, I know I'll love it even more it belongs to our baby boy.

And yes, if you're curious: you can't see it in the pictures, but the room definitely still has the drama-laden ceiling fan.

Wall Color: Benjamin Moore Serenity

Crib: Serena & Lily Liberty Crib

Bedding: Pottery Barn Kids Harper Nursery Bedding Collection

Throw Blanket: Target

Rug: Rugs USA Moroccan Diamond Shag Grey Rug (they have amazing sales -- I got this for 70% off!)

Dresser: IKEA Henmes (check out my DIY on how the dresser was customized)

Glider: Little Castle Cottage Glider from Wayfair

Monogrammed Pillow: Pottery Barn Kids Harper Nursery Collection

Side Table: Ikea Henmes (we swapped out the knobs to match the dresser)

Baby Monitor: Motorola MBP36 Remote Wireless Video Baby Monitor

Rocking Horse: Restoration Hardware Baby & Child