I am super excited with how Kate's room turned out! The only things missing at the moment are her decorative comforter (in the mail!) and the dust ruffle for the crib (which my wonderful grandparents are hunting down on Saturday since Babies R Us decided to discontinue the pattern and sold out of it in every Utah location). Now all I have left to do is wash and sort her clothes and toys some time in the next 7-10 weeks and we will be all set and ready for her to come!
I just love this crib! We went with a convertible style crib so that it will transition to a toddler bed and a full bed when the time comes, although I realize that by the time she is ready for either of those things there will more than likely be a new baby to go in the crib- which is also why we went pretty traditional and gender neutral on the style and color.
The dresser matches the crib, and weighs more than I do. It's huge. But you can never have too much storage when it comes to baby stuff! I've had that lamp for a while but it had this awful, tacky 1980's shade on it. After hunting for a while and realizing that it was going to be hard to find another lampshade to fit that particular lamp I ended up just ripping all the decorative ribbon off of it and painting it out with leftover paint from the letters that spell out her name.
I originally had planned on getting a double curtain rod for Kate's room since the drapes are from my old apartment, where I needed total black out curtains- that way we could hang sheers behind them and have some soft light without having it be all or nothing. But then I was wandering around Lowes one day and spotted this curtain rod and fell in love with it. Her bedding is dahlias and there are paintings of gardens above the dresser so I figured a little bird in a garden themed room never hurt anyone.
My grandpa actually found this sign for us and sent it with instructions that it go in Kate's room. My favorite book as a child was Guess How Much I Love You and we said this to each other every night before I went to bed.
Speaking of Guess How Much I Love You- that is actually the copy from my childhood (same with all those books, that's why when people offered us books I declined!) The Willow Tree was a gift from my grandma and the bookcase is something I got from a neighbor I was nannying for when they hadn't sold it in a garage sale. It was a sage green when I got it, and it stayed that way for a while, then I moved it into our laundry room at our last apartment where I painted it white and pumpkin spice orange. It was our TV stand for a while in this apartment while we looked for the perfect stand to fit and now it is coral and the perfect bookcase for her room.
The middle sign, also a gift from grandma and grandpa, is a Winnie The Pooh quote and was the first thing to go into Kate's room. The garden scenes were my grandma's- I remember them from growing up but couldn't tell you where they were in her house. But I found them in a closet before I moved out and decided I wanted to hang them in a baby girl's room some day. Lucky for me it worked out and they went with the theme of her room.
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