(Ahem. For those of you keeping track, yes, I am late -- by 11 days. My goal was to have CC in her new room by the end of July, but I failed miserably. The whole thing came together in the last week -- an incredible transformation!)
My mom helped me make the curtains (store-bought with custom-sewn trim), and I covered the cornice boards myself. In the process I gained a sewing machine and a staple gun, both sure to be useful at some point in the future.
Eventually we will get a nice chair/glider for this room, but for now an extra dining room chair with a slipcover will suffice. And in real life, the letters of her name are framed above her crib, but (as usual) I removed them for the blog.
An old bookshelf I'd forgotten we had in storage is the perfect addition. Thank goodness I hadn't given it away! Look how much more room CC has for books now!
The only remaining things to be done: put family pictures up in the frames (already ordered and on their way), and add some nice baskets with liners on the dresser to hold diapers and other necessities.
I couldn't have done it without our parents, who deserve a huge thank you!
I've been calling it her "big girl" room, but to be honest, it's not any "bigger" than her nursery. It still has a changing table and a crib, as appropriate for a newborn as it is for an almost-16-month-old. However, it is the room we intend for CC to have for a while, and eventually she'll have a matching big girl bed instead of a crib, so I still think of it as a milestone for her.
1 comment:
Wow! The curtains look awesome - by far my favorite part of the transformation. I am sure CC approves. You should be proud of yourself for all you did in such a short period of time.
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