Baby Steps
Today is a holiday here, Family Day, and what better way to spend it than
working on the baby's room. Our weekend has been a flurry of trips to Home Depot
and Lowes for materials to build the window seat and filler panels to make the
Ikea cabinets look like built-ins. Dumb mistake on our part... we could have
saved ourselves alot of trouble and cost by pushing the wardrobes into the
corners of the room and having a longer banquette in between. The window would
have looked off-center - but once we install the curtains you won't even notice
the difference. Ah well, live and learn.
We're scrambling to get it all done - wardrobes installed, banquette built & painted, filler panels built and painted - before carpet is installed on Thursday. HandyMan is working so hard... I fall in love with him even more when I see everything he's doing for this little baby :) A few pics of our progress:
...the Ikea wardrobes and the rough banquette frame. You can see the pale yellow walls and blue ceiling too.
...the closets. I can't wait to fill them with Baby HandyLuster's tiny outfits!
... and a close up of the wrapping paper we backed the closets with. We went with something a bit more subtle & sweet than what I originally considered. We found the paper at The Paper Place; they have such a wonderful selection of papers.
It's all starting to come together - and so quickly too! Seeing the room and feeling the bigger movements of the baby more lately...its all seems much more REAL. Ohmigosh - we're having a baby in two months!!!
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