Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Nursery Preparations

One quick trip over to Rona on Saturday, and our colours are chosen! Daddy's job for the new year is to paint the nursery...we'll see how that one goes! He definitely doesn't have confidence, but I told him that it's just like painting primer! One the base colour is done, we can get to taping off the horizontal stripes and voila - our nursery will be painted!

Here's the before picture of the lovely mossy green (yuck) - view from the door. Around to the left is the closet and to the right there's about maybe 3ft. more of space, so it's not really a tiny narrow room like it looks in the picture.



The colours will be.....



Almond Cream is the base colour for the walls, and then about 3ft. up from the floor there will be a 1" Amalfi Coast (darker turquoise on the left) stripe, 1" Almond Cream, 6" Rich Mocha, 1" Almond Cream, 1" Amalfi Coast.

The Amalfi Coast colour is more green turquoise than blue turquoise, so if we need to add a little pink here and there the colours are still coordinated (Split Compliments with neutrals to throw out an artsy term!).

The light fixture is already on a dimmer and matches with everything else in the house, but I sort of want to change it to something a little funkier so it matches with the elegant decor we're going with for the room (ie: the baby's name will be spelled in Alphabet Photography over the crib, black and white maternity pictures will be framed and on the wall over the dresser, a black and white picture of their Poppa on the dresser).

Maybe something like this...



We'll see what Daddy says! I'm so excited!!

3 comments:

b said...

i am so jealous, i am just starting to get my hubby to help me clean out the spare bedroom, i cant wait to pick out colors!

Sara said...

Love the colours, can't wait to see the 'after'. What's alphabet photography? Sounds like something I'd be into.

Shan said...

It's really awesome photography, and actually definitely something you could do since you're so skilled!
www.alphabetphotography.com is their site - we have the word LOVE that we got from a good friend at our wedding, and I can't wait to spell the baby's name over the crib with it!