New Rooms!

We've been working hard the past couple of months trying to get everything ready and make room for this new baby. The first item of business was to clean out the study which was a HUGE project. We finally got it cleared out and then were able to decorate it and make it Jake's new room. I was worried that giving Jake his own room would make him feel isolated or left out, but fortunately he was so excited about it. For the first few days he would just sit in there with his big bucket of animals and line them up on the dresser and shelves! Jon and I made the frame around the big animal map and I found the dresser and bed on Craig's List so the whole project was fairly inexpensive which is always a plus! We had the room wired for a ceiling fan so as soon as we get it installed we can lose the ugly floor lamp!

We then moved Max out of his room and into Nathan's room so they now share together. We didn't do much to this room except to add pictures of Max, his letters and some new sports pictures. Max is obsessed with sports so this is the perfect room for him!

We moved our big Ikea cube organizer out of the study and into the toy room. It's nice because it fits so many of their toys and so far everything has stayed organized- we'll see how long it lasts!

Jon and I collect fun frames from all of the places that we visit so I put those in the hallway and bought this mirror for the wall.

Across from the mirror and frames is this big desk/hutch system that we bought to organize all of the stuff that used to be in the study. I was amazed that we fit almost everything in it. I did buy a big four drawer metal filing cabinet off of Craig's List that we put in the garage for all of our paperwork.

Once all of that was finished, we were finally able to start on the nursery! It was another huge project, but I'm so excited about how it turned out!!!

This is what you see when you first walk in...

I ordered the circles and birds off of Etsy so that they coordinated with the bedding. I of course had to get a chandelier just in case the room wasn't girly enough already!

I found this headboard on Craig's List (can you tell yet that I love Craig's List?!) and painted it green to match the dresser.

I painted these frames that used to be brown and am going to frame Maggie's newborn pictures in them.

I love this Pottery Barn bedding and the coordinating pink polka dot curtains!

I painted the dresser green and splurged on these light pink knobs at Anthropology!

And now all that's left to do is wait for this little girl to get here!

Five more days and counting...