Nursery Furniture

I always thought nursery décor and furniture would be the fun part of having a baby.  Turns out, I find decorating anything, even a tiny, adorable room for a tiny human, exhausting.  There are tons of cribs out there but I didn't like any of them.  There are tons of gliders but none of them are comfortable.  There are tons of changing tables but none of them MAKE ANY SENSE.  So.  We have finally purchased a glider, which means we have the last piece for the nursery purchased.  The crib and glider should come in the next few weeks, and once the sink moves out of the nursery, we should be in pretty good shape. 

So here is what we ended up going with:

Pali Imperia Crib - I didn't like most of the cribs that had a higher back and a lower front, or a lot of extra fanciness going on. The extra fanciness takes up a lot of extra space when you are filling a 7x9 room.  We were deciding between the BabyLetto Mercer, which has storage drawers, and this crib.  We ultimately picked this one because it had way less flex in the rails, and we are hoping the material will hold up to teething a bit better than the Mercer, but I've already pinned some teething guards. 

Haverty's Patrice Glider - I checked out Babies R Us and Great Beginnings for gliders, but generally felt underwhelmed.  We bought our couch from Haverty's and I was really pleased with their selection of reasonably priced rocker/glider recliners. Plus their sales staff tends to be really nice and not pushy and their delivery lets you stalk the truck all the way to their house and they have a good return policy.  This was the narrowest glider we could find that still looks like a proper armchair and will hopefully work in our living room later. 

 

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Kallax Changing Table - we bought an Ikea Kallax 4x2, added three sets of Captiva Legs (we = husband), and will be putting a changing pad and other changing supplies on top. 

Dresser - We still have to sand and paint the dresser, or at least clean it up.  The coloring might actually work with the "mouse" colored glider, so I'm not 100% set on painting it anymore.  We'll probably have to wait until we get the glider anyway, so then we can make a decision. 

Hopefully I can get started on our mobile and some other projects soon, but right now most of my weekends have been taken up with errands and cooking all of the produce we are getting from our CSA and garden plot!

Progress

As such things go, we began the process of converting our guest room into a nursery.  Once the books were downstairs, the bed needed to go. The frame and mattress both went to different friends and yesterday M. started to assemble some of the furniture we got.  We decided to go with an Ikea Kallax unit to use as a changing table, so that has three sets of legs to raise it to a better height for changing.  The color scheme for the room is yellow, aqua, and white, with a sea life theme. 

On top of the Kallax unit are the drawers for our new bathroom vanity.  We decided, after getting extremely high quotes to redo the bathroom in it's entirety, that since the bathroom is in mostly good shape and we really just want a new vanity, to put in a new vanity.  First we have to have a plumber come in and insulate the pipes properly, and then we will need to install the vanity.  (I'm using the term "we" lightly, I think my responsibilities will include keeping M. company.)

So the big to-do list between now and October includes the following:

Nursery:

• Assemble crib (one it comes in)
• Make mobile
• Paint dresser
• Hang artwork
• Purchase glider
• Check windows/walls for lead paint
• Hang Elfa

Bathroom

• Clear out storage cubes
• Call plumber, have them repair pipes
• Install new vanity and sink

Office

• Install new Elfa desk
• Get rid of old desk
• Move old Elfa out
• Purge and organize crafting supplies

Misc.

• Radon inspection
• Make room for upright freezer in the basement
• Clear out shelving between closets
• Bolt everything to the walls

That's all that's on the list that I can think of for now, but things are starting to get awfully cute around here: