Our Nursery...

For the past week, my husband and I have been finishing off painting our house. We have only the tiniest bit to go and its very exciting cos gradually as I have put my stamp more and more on the house, the more I've grown to like it. Its certainly not the style of house that I ever imagined myself in before I was married and I never imagined living so close to the beach. It feels like "our House" now and not just the house the my husband lived in and I moved into.

Today, I'm going to share with you my absolute favourite room of the house!   Its our nursery. When Jubilee died, I knew that while I was off work, I wanted to set it up, just like I was going to when I commenced my maternity leave. I'd been planning it my head since we moved in here and so it gives me so much joy and hope to see it all finally come together as I had imagined.

I've been waiting to share this for a while, but wanted to have it almost finished before I did. Only a couple of really small things left to do- I want to make some bunting to hang across the window and I've got to properly make the change table cover but I didn't get time to do that this week cos we were too busy with all the other painting. Also, I'm in the process of buying a custom made night light from Etsy.

I've loved decorating with old world things. My favourites include toy wooden blocks and soft toys from when I was a child, my shabby cupboard (in the wardbrobe-it was the present table at our wedding and its got baby clothes in it), the shelf with wrought iron book ends and vintage books on it and the Replogle Globe. 

This is my Leander Cradle- another blessing (but thats a whole other story). At the moment, I have the two teddies that Jubilee recieved sitting in it and the blanket that was wrapped around her in the hospital. Its going to go in our room, when our next baby is a newborn but I just wanted to set it up and have it in the nursery for the time being anyway cos I love it!

This is my toddler bed from IKEA. I've had my eye on it for a very long time- at the moment it is on its smallest setting (which is shorter but a bit wider than a cot) but it is extendable to a full size single bed. I love the old fashioned suitcase tucked underneath the foot of the bed.

This is my change table, which is actually my grandmothers desk. I have fond memories of her using it at the farm house when I was a child. Just over a week ago- it was completely cream. It was originally going to be completely white and shabbied like the other cupboard but it came up so well and so I changed plans a bit- I got to it with some paint stripper, sand paper, stain, varnish and paint and ta da!! I used the same brown from the wardrobe cupboard to tie it all in. My aunt gave me the idea to decoupage the draw fronts and I expanded on that by using the paper doilies (that were pinned to navy napkins instead of place cards) from our wedding. I love the shabby top too.

So there you have it: our nursery. Empty. But will be used (soon!!! pls!)