The Nursery Part II: Painting

In Part I, we removed the current closet system and moved it into our bedroom. Now it’s time for a fresh coat of paint.

Now-a-days you have to worry about everything, including harmful paint fumes. The Freshaire Choice from Home Depot is a line of no VOC paint (Volatile Organic Compound) paint. The base paint and the pigments are free of VOCs which pollute your interior air as you paint and for years after.

So armed with a no-VOC paint and the added protection of a face mask for Mommy (just in case), we set out to paint the baby’s room. We choose a rather bright Citron color for the back wall and an eggshell white for the other 3 walls.

We decided that the “theme” of the nursery would be an eclectic “cool stuff that we think our baby would like” instead of something like trucks or jungle or anything like that.

nursery

We spent the entire weekend deconstructing and reconstructing our closet system, moving it from the nursery-to-be to our bedroom. Yes, the baby is going to sleep in what was the master closet but it is really a cute little room. It has windows and lights. See:


I wouldn't say it is a nursery, yet, but we have a room that is mostly empty (I still have a few things to sort) so that we can start the fun part when it is time. And we couldn't help but put a few baby books and decorations in there for a start. I promise the pictures will get better to look at as we go!

After Donavon uninstalled and reinstalled this whole system, the next most herculean task was sorting and hauling all of the winter clothes to the basement or to the donation pile, in order to whittle it down to what you see here, as we no longer have an entire room to house our clothing.