A Home For Hank

After much procrastination, I finally got around to starting, and nearly finishing, work on Hank's nursery- with a ton of help from my parents. This bedroom used to be our office. Over the past week, we have moved out the humongous table we used as our desk, a filing cabinet, and lots of pictures. We had a painter come in and paint the ceiling a lovely shade of light blue (which you can't see in any of these photos) and gave the baseboards and trim a fresh coat of white. We repurposed an old dresser from our guest room, added a changing table rail and had it painted white as well as two end tables that were in the guest room. All three red lamps were collecting dust in the attic and the couch was already in the room. The crib was purchased from Craig's List, was thoroughly scrubbed down and graced with a brand new mattress.

On my last trip to California, Ann and I found this fabulous fabric (seen in the quilt hanging on the wall) that has both helicopters and trains so we had a quilt custom made and found some bedding from Pottery Barn Kids that had a similar enough stripe to look cute but not be too 'matchy matchy.' We had lots of extra fabric, so we cut out and framed a bunch of little pictures in hand painted frames.

Finally, we got this great rug from Pottery Barn Kids as well- it really helps to pull all the colors together and finish up the look.

I'm still on a quest for the perfect pair of white floating shelves to flank the window. We're planning to use them to display our train and helicopter collections. It feels great to have the bulk of this project completed though. I just hope Matthew and Hank like it! Thanks Dad & Ann for all your hard work!