A room to call his/her own ...

Yay!  The major work has been completed on the nursery and now it's just a matter of finishing the room's color scheme by adding wall decor, accessories, bedding and window treatments.  Unfortunately, we won't have a truly "finished" product until the occupant itself is "finished" growing!  But for now, you get the idea with these pictures.  The picture to the left is a "before" shot.  The rest are pics of the semi-finished result. 

 

The room was painted with two different shades of brown/tan and all moldings were painted in a creamy white.  

I constructed and hung a book bin below the chair rail on the wall in which the closet door swings into (and will add one more above the chair rail on the same wall).  The idea with this was that since the room's size prohibits a lot of furniture (including a book shelf), I wanted the baby to have some place to put his/her favorite books.  

I made french message boards (2 boy, 2 girl) to hang

 over the changing table as a place to put notes & clippings and to add a touch of the accent color to the wall.  I'll use the extra fabric from that project to make accent pillows to put on the glider rocker.  I've hung a nice ledge shelf above the crib to place a few frames and keepsakes and to add a focal point to the wall.  In a few weeks, I'll add a phrase in vinyl lettering above the shelf and  a monogram of the baby's initial's below the shelf after he/she is born.  I have a few other ideas for bringing the accent color of either pink or blue into the room but for now, the room must be as it is.  I really think once it's all "put together" it'll be the perfect place for our little one to spend time!  :-)