I decided to put up a few pictures of Graham's Nursery. This picture below was taken right after we got our crib and before we really started working on the nursery. It turned out pretty differently by the time were done. Enjoy!
We painted the walls a bluish grey below the chair rail and a grey on top. We took a few decorations from elsewhere in our house and bought a few to create his little room.
The boat in this picture we bought a few years ago at Target. At the time it went very well with our nautical theme we were planning to implement in our attic, but it fits much better in Graham's room. The rocking chair was given to us by my parents, and is the same chair that my parents used to rock me in when I was a baby. The table was a black end table that we didn't think went very well in the room because of it's color. Instead of buying a new table at $50+ we decided to re-vamp this one by covering it in some leftover fabric and bought some rope from Lowes for $0.47 p/foot. (4 feet was just long enough despite what I thought we would need).
The photo collage was a mixture of new and old frames. Some of these we had sitting in our attic and we bought the silver ones to make a cool combination of old meets new. The rectangle and oval frames and the mixture of styles makes it an interesting focal point. The light we made from an old wire basket and used fabric to sew a liner for it. We then attached the liner with kitchen string and a large-eyed needle.
My mother in law helped us when she was here by making these awesome curtains (which I didn't take a very good picture of now that I am looking through them - hopefully I will take a better one soon). They reminded us of sail cloth when we bought the fabric and we used the extra fabric to make the liner for the light fixture in the picture above this one. The globe, mirror, and moulding squares were all elsewhere in our house.
This dresser we found a year or so ago at an antique shop in Roanoke. We painted it with the same paint as the chair rail and moulding in the room and we really like how it turned out. We also found the oar for $5 at a shop in Salem. I used a staple gun and some wire to make hangers on the back to put it up.
The shelf was given to us and we painted it with the same paint as the dresser. The oil lamp was another decoration we took from elsewhere in our house. The blocks we found a year or so ago and I had to buy them - I love blocks! I actually made the sock monkey as well (my first attempt at knitting in the round) and we bought the little candle sticks and round frame.
The 'G' hook Alisha found in Charlottesville at Anthropologie. I wasn't sure about it at first but really like it now (she was right). On the floor (you can barely see it in the picture) we found an amazing wooden alphabet block board for about $3 in Appomattox. Again, we bought this about a year ago and have been holding on to it since then. Alisha wasn't sure if we would use it for a girl's room, so I was pretty excited that we were having a boy as I thought it was so great.
This has been a lot of fun and we saved a lot of money by doing so much ourselves and repurposing furniture and decorations. We are so blessed and thankful for God's provision and abundant blessings in allowing us to decorate this nursery for our boy.
