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!  :-)

Looking for opinions

I've spent hours looking online for decorating ideas for the nursery (mostly viewing others' ideas on www.roomzaar.com), and I really like the idea of using vinyl lettering on the wall.  My current vision is to have the crib & a ledge shelf centered on the longest wall in the room.  Below the shelf will be a monogram of the baby's first initial along with the first name written in a different color & font over it (see photo from roomzaar.com at left).  Then I want to place a phrase on the wall above the shelf.  My question is, do you think that this font is too girly for a boy? (see below) 

I plan to use the same font for the phrase text and the baby's first name (like shown in the picture to the left).  But since we don't know if it's a boy or girl, I need to make sure that whatever text I use is suitable for both.  Also, which phrase do you like the most for both genders?

Let them be little ...

Play, Laugh, Giggle ...

A dream is a wish your heart makes ...

We made a wish and you came true ...

Honest Opinions/comments  (even if they're negative)?

UPDATE - Getting ready for baby

Okay, so here's an update on our adventure of getting ready for the baby.  This past weekend, we slowly continued our attempt at moving things out of the office and to, well, whatever place we could find for the stuff.  Tim spent at least 2 hours moving and cleaning the freshwater tank from the impending nursery to a relatively permanent location in our bedroom.  I actually think this will be a better place for it, since he (we) may actually look at and enjoy watching the fish from our bedroom more than the glimpses we were getting while passing the office before!  The next step is to figure out an appropriate location for our computer server and to run the wiring to that location.  After that, Tim will patch a couple of spots in the wall and I can finally begin painting.

Which brings me to my next topic.... painting.  Emily and I spent some time this afternoon at Home Depot looking at paint swatches in an effort to determine which shade of brown would be the best for the baby's room.  As I mentioned in my previous post, I had two bedding sets picked out (one boy-centric, one girl-centric).  After hours and hours of searching the internet for just the right combinations of blue/brown and pink/brown, I thought I had it just right with the bedding that I mentioned in my last post.  Originally, I had anticipated that the manufacturers of the bedding sets would be able to provide me with fabric swatches.  However, I've been unable to get them and when it comes to picking paint colors, I feel most comfortable when I have a fabric of inspiration to work from.  Not to mention that, in this case, I need to pick a color that will go with both bedding sets!  UGHH!!!  So we trekked back up to Babys'RUs in hopes of finding something that I could live with.  I still love the girl bedding that I'd chosen and since that's available at the store, I'm sticking with that choice.  However, the "Baby Noah" design that I choose for the boy bedding is only available online so I've settled on an altogether different bedding set, which still has the brown tones but MUCH less of the blue (boo hoo).  I'm hoping to make the blue more noticeable by using a coordinating blue crib sheet and other blue accents throughout the room.  The latest selection in baby boy bedding is called "My First ABCs" by Kidsline.  Here's some pics: