From storage room to baby room!

For the first two years of us living here our "spare bedroom" was used as a storage room.  It was filled with buckets of food that was a make shift guest bed with an air mattress on top.  I also kept my elliptical machine and other random workout equipment in there.  I also kept all of my craft stuff in there.  It was a DISASTER.

When I found out we were expecting I knew I had to get busy transforming it into a nursery.  I started by finding a place for all of those buckets of food (not an easy task for an extremely exhausted first trimester prego).  Once that was done I went to work rearranging closet space to fit my craft stuff, and measured out our bedroom to find that the elliptical machine would fit perfectly.  By the time we went to find out if it was a boy or a girl the room was a blank canvas.

As we were leaving the doctor's office I decided on a paint color and Todd started painting that weekend!  The crib we got for free (Wes never had a crib:( ) from Josh and Jamie so we decided to paint it black and Todd had that done super quick too.  Next I set to work making the bedding.  I'd still like to make a couple extra sheets but other than that it is done. 

This is a picture of the quilt before I bound it in the green fabric.  It's all done now, I just haven't taken another picture!

I had my mom cut this tree out of vinyl to put beside the crib.  It took a few hours to get it all put together but I LOVE how it turned out!

Finally, I designed and sewed a simple valence.

We also got a dresser from my mom that we are in the process of painting black to go on the other side of the room.  

ON a completely random note.  I had Todd build me some new shelves for our bathroom.  They turned out just like I wanted them too, and now we have some extra storage space in there!

Todd sure has done a lot around here lately!