A Day in Our Life: Nursery/Guest Room Phase 1

What could all of these odds and ends possibly have in common?

So one important thing for us while preparing for the baby is maintaining the space we have to be able to host family and friends for overnights, but also have space for baby stuff. This has meant converting our guest room into a nursery also. The important thing to me in this transformation is not having a typical "baby themed" nursery. I completely respect other people's interest in cute little animals or Pooh Bear bedding, but our nursery needs to function for adults and children. I found some bedding on Target.com and have decided to use it as the inspiration for the room. It's based on mostly primary colors with some browns mixed in, which makes it great for either gender of baby and since the colors are a little muted they lend themself nicely to a modern feel. I scoured every baby bedding website I could find and wasn't able to find anything that I loved more than this set.

I have had the hardest time trying to come up with ways to fill up wall space in the nursery, however. I don't like to have up random artwork and wanted something that would complement the baby bedding. After spending hours looking online, and some inspiration from Pottery Barn kids (which I love but simply cannot afford), I decided to do a homemade art project. Luckily, Hobby Lobby was having a sale on their painting canvas and I picked up a few other things there like paint, wooden die cuts, and some fabric to help complete the project. In the future, when I do these kind of projects, I'll remember to show step by step photos. But anywho, it took a couple days, many coats of paint, hot glue, a staple gun, and lots of patience, but the finished product was worth it.

This is my favorite letter of the set. I love the color combo and the way the polka dots turned out with the circular sponge, they have that worn, antique look to them.

He is the only cute little animal that will be in this room (besides stuffed ones when baby is a little older). He was also the inspiration behind using the word SMILE- plus, it is pretty non-gender specific.