Nursery Reveal

Okay, let me preface it by saying this: my goal for this project was to do it as cheap as possible. The main reason being that this will probably be a temporary nursery for us. I KNOW if we have a little girl I'm going to want it to be more feminine than a gender neutral nursery would allow. There were a few color palettes I could have gone with that would have allowed me to take the nursery either way once we learned the gender of the child we'd be getting, but I decided against that for 2 reasons. A.) I wanted something that would photograph well for the Life Book, and 2.) Everything else I had found as possibilities was either too girly, too boy-y(how do you spell that? boyee?), or was really nice, so it would have required spending a lot more $$ now, and like I said...I wanted to wait to make a full commitment to how our nursery would be decorated. So without further ado, here it is:


I set a budget of $75, and was actually able to come in under that. (I'll price it out below.) The room was inspired by the canopy, which I found at IKEA, and then when I saw the little quilt that matched, I thought it'd be perfect! They actually had a show room at IKEA using this canopy in an adorable shabby-chic girls room (and an amazing chandelier!), so I think it can definitely be taken that direction too.

So back to the goal: a big bang for a little buck. I saw the idea to use scrapbook paper to decorate your wall at Spearmint Baby. I thought this would be a great way to add some color without painting and committing to a color scheme. So I decided to pull 4 colors from the quilt, which at the time I thought were pretty subtle. Now that I have them on the wall they are much LOUDER than I anticipated. :) Though the colors do match the quilt perfectly.

Pricing Details:

Crib - FREE (thanks Mom & Dad!)

Bumper - $14.99

Green Blanket - $9.99

Sheets - FREE (thanks Rach!)

Quilt - $14.99

Canopy - $19.99

Mattress - FREE (thanks Jen!)

Scrapbook paper & glue dots - $15

Grand total: $74.96 (and now I've got 4 cents burning a hole in my pocket.)

Soo...what's the verdict? Love it? Hate it? Dizzy? Is it too much going on at once? Sometimes I love it and sometimes I'm not so sure of myself. If you were a birth mom, would you want your baby to live here? Sound off below please!