Nursery for Baby Dos Equis (not a reference to gender or beer. Really.)

Preparing for a second kid is so much easier than the first. We already have nearly everything we need for the room ... it's just a matter of wrestling it out of Liam's room.

Step one was to paint it. When the room was the upstairs guest room, the walls were painted a pretty fantastic elephant gray. D and I both loved the color, but wanted something brighter for the baby. Plus, a lot of the furniture we already have is brown. A big brown rocker/glider and ottoman in a gray room? Sounds like we're setting the kid up for some hefty therapy bills down the road.

Then I found this pillow and the rest is history. The walls are now the aqua blue of the leaves, we have the brown chair and changing table cover, and I just bought ~20 orange T shirts at Goodwill that I am going to make into a rag rug.

Enough preamble. Picture time.

D prepping the room. The swan song of the gray.

New vs. Old with bad color all around. The new color is not that blue (it's more of a turquoise) and the old color looks like the weird brownish purple that you get when you try to dye Easter eggs with food color. 

Painting is finished, crib is reassembled. 

Left to do:

• New crib mattress. The one Liam used is now in his toddler bed. The one in the picture up there came with the toddler bed and is covered in loud, crinkly plastic. 
• Make the rug.
• Some sort of window shades. What you see there is an emergency trip to Target so the window would be covered for guests.
• Get LD a new dresser so we can swipe the dresser/changing table from his room.
• And, probably the hardest part, talk LD into letting us move the chair out of his room.