Nursery Room - Painted Trim!

Last night Chris and I spent a few hours after our walk and dinner to paint the trim in the nursery.  We might go back and do a quick second coat on the bottom of the baseboards.  I primed the baseboards before we ripped up the carpet, so the bottom of the baseboards didn't get primed too well.  The tough part though, I'm thankful to say, is over.  Painting the top of the baseboards, where it lines up against the wall, is a pain in the rear.  I look like I'm in timeout when I do it because I put my forehead against the wall so I can lean over and look straight down, and trim the top.

It makes me so happy to see the difference in the room though!  It REALLY brightens it up!  Here's where we left off on Wednesday :

And here's what it looks like after the trim got a fresh coat of white paint:

Minus the slight tilting of the picture, what do you think?!  Amazing what some white paint can do, huh?!

I used Behr's Ultra Pure White, just straight from the shelf, in semi-gloss for those that are interested!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!  We've got a full schedule lined up...but of mainly shopping, doing some work on the rental property, and spending time with friends...so we might have to actually take a breather from the nursery for a weekend.  Minus, that is, shopping for flooring in here!

Happy Friday!

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Nursery Room - Paint and Fan

When I left off on Monday, we had installed a new window, painted the ceiling, removed the old carpet, and primed the walls.  I normally would not waste the effort at all to prime a wall.  In the paint world, I'm the kind of gal that gets anxious to get the second coat on before the first coat has really fully dried.  By the way, I don't recommend this!  But I wanted to go a light neutral color, and I wanted it to be it's purest, truest color.

Most of the walls in my house are beige.  I have a beige that I've found that I love, so I stick with it.  I like to add color to the rooms with accessories because I really don't enjoy re-painting walls.  I love the way a freshly painted room looks, but the process itself?!?!  No thanks!

The nursery though, I wanted to be a little bit different.  Still relatively neutral walls that I can pair with whatever colors I'd like, but not beige.

So we went gray.

And we installed a new fan!  Woo Hoo!!

The closet was the part I was the most excited about.  I have big plans for in there (I really hope they all work out!!!).  It's the first time I've ever picked out a color from a swatch, and fell in love instantly.  No tester needed for me.  I was really nervous putting it all on the walls, but I absolutely love the way it looks!

Chris was gone on Sunday when I painted the closet.  When he got home he said "wow, bold.  I LOVE it!"  Yay!

And just because I love to see how much progress we've made in here over such little time, here's where the nursery started out two weeks ago:

Junk Room, Before

Here's where it was before we started this weekend :

Primed walls, empty room

And here's where it stands today :

New window, ceiling painted, walls painted, new fan, carpet removed

Next up on this list is getting the trim painted a bright and shiny white so that we can install flooring.  What flooring?  We have no idea...that's also on the to-do list!

I know these colors aren't typical 'girl' room colors, but I'm not a typical girl.  I do plan on accenting the room with pops of a bright, deep pink...almost like a purplish pink, to add a little more feminineness to the space.  I've got big plans...if only I can keep up my energy level!

Hope everyone's having a fantastic week!  Happy Wednesday!

Oh...paint colors...the gray is Benjamin Moore's Moonshine, and the blue is Benjamin Moore's Lucerne.  Love, love, love!

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Nursery Room - Window Intallers

If I took the time to write everything we did on the nursery this weekend in this post, I'd be here for an hour, and you'd never pay attention long enough to get to the end of the post!

Friday night we had a typical date night at Home Depot to get everything ready for a buzillion projects.  Saturday morning, bright and early, we got to work on the nursery.  Here's what it looked like when we walked in:

During the week, I had primed all of the trim and lower part of the walls, and Chris primed the upper part of the walls, and for extra credit, he primed the closet too.  You can see a swatch of my tester color on the wall.

Saturday morning, I got up and primed all the way up to the ceiling (initially we were going to do crown molding in here, but after project after project cost wise kept adding up at Home Depot, we nixed that idea), and then got to work on painting the ceiling white.  While I was doing that, Chris was busy doing this:

Chisel, chisel, chisel, bang, bang, bang.  After the ceiling had one coat of paint on it, we actually made another run to Home Depot to grab a larger chisel, and then I painted the second coat of white paint on the ceiling while Chris chiseled away at the window with his larger chisel.

And after about another hour or two of chiseling and trying to minimize the amount of stucco work that he was going to have to repair on the outside, Chris got impatient.

And he got the window out.  Can you see the missing glass?!  Wonder where it went?!

Here's a better shot.  Ahhh, yes...all over the floor next to the closet that I was just getting ready to paint.  Nix that idea!  We went ahead and cleaned up the bedroom and removed the carpet instead of vacuuming up a million glass pieces, and then went on our way of installing the new window.

And...tada!!!

Yep, we can add window installers to our expanding resume list of home improvement things we can do if this whole Engineering gig doesn't work out for us in the long run.

And here's a picture of my pretty while ceiling:

Yes, I know it's not as exciting as the new window, but my arms and shoulders still hurt from it, so I have to show it off.

Just as a reminder, here's where we started off Saturday morning:

And here's what we went to bed with it looking like Saturday night:

All in a days work!

Primed, painted ceiling, goodbye old carpet, goodbye old window, HELLO new window!!  Oh yes, and if you look closely, you'll see the tiny bit of closet paint I got on the wall.  I was determined to at least some color there before the day was over.  I tried to convince Chris to let me go ahead and paint the closet after dinner, but he made me take a shower and get in bed instead.  I was fast asleep before 8 p.m., and I didn't wake up (cept to do the normal pregnancy pee thing) until after 8 a.m. on Sunday morning.  It was a long, but very productive, day!!

All day on Saturday, we sang "That's the sound of Chris and Kara working on the nursery, uursery, oh don't you know, that's the sound of Chris and Kara working on the nursery".  You've got to sing it fast to make it sound right.  Good times!

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!!  Stay tuned to see the more 'fun' update to the nursery progress.  Things like primer, painted ceilings, removing carpet, and replacing windows are more of the necessities, not the fun part.  But the fun parts coming soon, I promise!

Happy Monday!

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