The Nursery Progress!

This weekend was a fun one at our household, stressful, but FUN! After thinking the nursery would be painted last weekend, we finally had it confirmed with our painter that Saturday was the day! Luke woke the three(four!) of us up so early Saturday morning, he was so excited, he felt like Christmas morning he said! The painter arrived and started painting after discussing the color, which I was still not sure of, but I decided to just trust it. He started with adding the crown molding, and eventually painting all the trim, baseboards, doors, and beadboard.

Sidenote: When we moved into our home, we thought it would be a few years there, then move on to a bigger, newer home, but as the economy has changed, we are still here. We were very lucky that our house was renovated a few years before we moved in, but the previous owners were "do it yourselfers". Which is great, if you are good at the "yourself" part! They were not so much. So we have done very little to the house, not wanting to put too much money into it, to not see a return on our investment. The neighborhood has gone down hill since 2008 when we moved in, lots of forclosures and just lots of homes built in 1979 that have never been renovated. We really only painted our bedroom and bathroom and added crown molding there, because it was painted a forest green color when we moved in. I guess we also painted a guest room, but it was a powder blue color with star stickers on the walls! The rest of the house, even though we don't love the colors, we have kept the same. Not to mention they painted it all themself, so if you are ever at our house during the day time, don't look up too much, they weren't good painters! The room we chose as our nursery, had beadboard already in it, but was painted an ugly brown color. So we couldn't wait to change it! It has always been my favorite room in the house, and when we moved in I remember my Mom and I saying this room will be perfect for a nursery- cut to 4 years later and we are painting it for our baby! So exciting! And basically I say all this because any improvements we make to our house are so fun and exciting!

He is coming back today to finish a few places, and touch ups, and then we will be able to move the crib in tonight! I am so happy with the result, he is a great a painter, and is so reasonably priced, If anyone needs a painter message me or Lucas. They are very clean too, which I LOVE!

Here are a few before pictures: (the green paint on the walls was a complete hormonal imbalance on my part, I was thinking it would look good painted like a Frog!)

(Daddy watching as his son's nursery is being painted!)

Here are some AFTER pics!

Lucas had his first Daddy Duty too! He put together the crib! He was so excited to put it together and he was super quick and seemed like a pro! We can't wait to put it in the nursery!

And just for laughs, here is what my big butt is looking like now at 22 weeks, not 34! Oh well, what can I do!