Last week I shared our plans to decorate our baby girl’s nursery for the spring edition of the One Room Challenge, hosted by Calling it Home. If you are joining me for the first time, then welcome! So glad to have you along for this nutty six-week makeover ride.
In case the title didn’t tip you off, we are decorating with a Harry Potter theme! You can check out my ORC week 1 post HERE.
Before I get down to the details of this week’s advancements, I’d like to thank everyone for their kind and thoughtful comments on last week’s post. Progress for progress’ sake has been encouraged! (Can’t believe I just made a Professor Umbridge reference. Shame on me. The entire HP fandom just shuddered. Although, ten points to whoever actually GOT that reference.)
We actually made a lot of progress this week! My handy husband has been hard at work finishing up the painting, and we are almost done with that part of this project. He had some help from my dad, which was also really appreciated.
As I said last week, three of the walls have been painted “Snowfall White” by Benjamin Moore. What I didn’t tell you last time was that our focal wall got painted “Newburyport Blue” (also by BM). I am just completely, head-over-heels, knock-me-over-with-a-levitating-feather in love with this colour!
It’s deep and rich without completely overpowering everything else (although I’ll admit that it certainly makes a splash, particularly in a – currently – empty room). The contrast between the white and blue is just so crisp. Totally yummy.
Now, we have some work still to do on the trim and doors, and we have a few touch-ups to do to the edge of the focal wall, but we’re about 9 3/4 done with the painting.
I wanted to share with you a few of our furniture and decor choices. These all come from Ikea, AKA the muggle world’s Forbidden Forest. If you’ve been to Ikea, you know exactly what I mean. My mother and I spent a morning shopping for some baby things, and believe me, it is a place of both ingenious beauty and dark evil. Plus, you can so get lost in it. But, here are a few of the things we picked up:
Hensvik crib from Ikea
Himmelsk rug from Ikea
Sanela curtains from Ikea
Sanela cushion cover from Ikea
We also purchased a mattress for the crib, so all in all, our budget so far is pretty reasonable.
Hensvik crib – $129.00
Vissa Vackert crib mattress – $99
Himmelsk rug – $49.99
Sanela curtains (pair) – $79.99
Sanela cushion cover – $9.99
Miscellaneous – $10
Paint – $100 (includes two colours + paint for the dresser)
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Total $477.97
A lot of our other items and pieces of furniture are from my favourite second-hand store, the Shop of My Parents’ Garage, so we’ll be saving some money on those pieces. They’ve already given us a rocking chair, bookcase, and dresser (which will double as our change table). Thanks, mom and dad!
So, our to-do list is now a teensy bit shorter.
Nursery To-Do List
Prep the room (including filling holes and an old cable outlet)Prime the roomPaint three walls “Snowfall White”ÂPaint the focal wall- Decorate the focal wall
Paint the ceilingPaint the closetPaint the trim and doorsShop for a crib and mattressShop for an area rugBuy or make curtains (bought them)- Prep and sand the dresser
- Paint the dresser
- Hardware for the dresser?
- Repaint the rocking chair
- Throws and pillows for the rocking chair (started!)
- Artwork (started!)
- Side table?
- Bookcase
- Accessories (started!)
- Organize the closet
- And about a million things I have forgotten due to baby brain
I hope you’ll come back next week for part three of our One Room Challenge nursery. I’m hoping to share some progress on the aforementioned dresser, and maybe even a tentative layout. Slowly but surely, this room is coming together! If only I could wave my wand, shout “finite decoratum”, and behold a perfectly finished nursery.
Don’t forget to check out the featured and other guest participants of the One Room Challenge. There are some lovely makeovers in the works! And be sure to follow along with me on Facebook, where I’ll be posting little tidbits as we make progress on our nursery.
Have a great week!
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Spring 2016 One Room Challenge | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6
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Fall 2015 One Room Challenge | Reveal
Oh, I like the blue wall!! We just spent a few hours this past weekend at Ikea searching for a few pieces for our son’s playroom. My gosh how time can fly in that place! LOL! I ended up feeling ridiculously sick from being around so many people, and spent the rest of the day miserable, but we found the pieces we went for, so that’s a plus! Haha! I’ll be checking in next week for more progress here. I can’t wait!!
Ikea can be both a an adventure and a trial. I totally feel your pain!
I love that navy wall, so pretty! Your Ikea finds are great too! And you got a ton of stuff for your money, I love Ikea prices!
Thanks, Amanda! Ikea really is hard to beat, price-wise.
Lovely idea! I’m jealous !
Thank you so much!
I love all your HP references! I can’t wait to see the end result.
Glad you enjoyed them 😉
LOVE the wall color! It looks so great! I was thinking of you yesterday when I was writing my ORC #2 post! The Etsy shop that I ordered my son’s Star Wars artwork from has some cool Harry Potter artwork! The castle is the one that made me think of your nursery, but the rest are fun, too. You should check it out! https://www.etsy.com/listing/264113151/harry-potter-hogwarts-castle-print-harry?ref=shop_home_listings
Thanks, Samantha! And thank you for the tip about the shop.
Wow I love the blue wall color, especially paired with the white! It looks great already!
Thanks, Roxanne!
The colors are soft and magical, the blue has a relaxing effect on people so its the perfect choice for a baby! I like how you check off items on the to do list. Congrats
Maria
Thank you, Maria. I feel the same way about blue. People always comments that blue is a main colour in every room in our house, but we just LOVE it!
Sarah I adore the direction that your room is headed towards! You did SO much better than I did in my room this week.
I would love for you to share this post at Thoughts of Home on Thursday. I think our readers would really enjoy it!
Good luck in the upcoming week!
Love the dark blue and white contrast! Our bedroom walls have a very similar color of blue on the top half with white on bottom. We’ve always really liked it.
Thanks, Debi! We just love blue… It’s so relaxing and calming.
It is going to be lovely! Not a colour I would have even considered, back in the day when I was preparing a nursery. Sure beats pink!
Thanks! Yes, pink definitely wasn’t doing it for us…
I’m really liking those accessories from Ikea – and I had no idea they had a whole section for “baby rugs”… now I’ll be checking all those options for our nursery too. Good progress so far 🙂
They’re definitely new products – they only appeared on the Canadian Ikea website last week (but I bought them a few weeks ago).
Sarah, I absolutely love that accent wall. You’re right, it looks so bold and rich AND crisp alongside the white walls. I’m excited to see how you decorate this room to make it baby girl – and yet Harry Potter at the same time.
Thanks, Carrie! I’m pretty excited to finish up the painting this weekend so that we can start baby-fying the space. 🙂
I love the blue wall…I would throw some mustard hello in the mix. I think it would complement the dark blue and light blue nicely. love what you have going on so far.
I love yellow! If only my husband did… We made an agreement that I got to use yellow in my music room, and that’s it for our house. Maybe I should pointedly show him your comments! 🙂
I am LOVING that blue wall in there. Looks like IKEA treated you well 🙂
Thank you, Erin!
love the wall color!!!! I always have a fond of dark walls and this color is amazing. I am a big Harry Potter fan so I’m so excited to see your progress for week 3.
Thanks, Steph! I can’t wait to show off some of the details and furniture next week.
I love the feature wall! It’s the perfect backdrop and feeling for your design! I so wish we had an Ikea closer – the closest one for us is about 1.5 hours away. It might be a good thing though.. We probably need to spend at least some money on food! LOL
Ugh, an hour and half is definitely a long drive just to go to Ikea!
I really like the crib you picked out. And love the blue color for the accent wall. I’ll also be visiting IKEA soon. I’m just hoping I only have to make 1 trip this challenge since I do end up getting lost within the store!
Hahaha definitely try to do it in one trip if you can!