For my first son, I was so excited to be a mother that I began nesting very early. Andrew’s nursery was completely designed and ready to go when I was five months pregnant. This time around, it wasn’t so easy! First, I thought that the boys might share a bedroom, but that quickly disappeared when I felt guilty about making my big boy give up “his space.” We decided to turn our guest room into a nursery, but then the biggest challenge was deciding what theme I wanted to go with. It was so hard to choose the bedding, decor, and overall look of the room this time around. I don’t know why, but I found it much harder to make decisions during pregnancy number two.
After a quick chat with a good friend and a lot of Pinterest-ing, I decided upon an adventure theme with gray, aqua, metallics and wood. The next step in the plan was to paint the walls a very light mint green color, which is hard to see in the photos but is actually so light and fresh. It gave the room a great clean palette to start building decorations around.
I didn’t want to choose a room that was already pre-designed for us. Instead, I wanted to piece together things I loved to make it all work in one room. I chose his bedding from Babies-R-Us after looking at what felt like a million different quilts and bedding sets with arrows, teepees, foxes, bears…you name it. I just loved the cute little fox on this quilt and the color scheme was beautiful as well. From there, I went to Hobby Lobby and found the wall decor that would hang over his bed – a big, distressed letter “T” and some gold arrows. While I was there, I stumbled upon these cute little prints of a fox and a bear dressed in aztec-wear, and I just had to snatch them up because they matched perfectly with the bedding theme! 
There’s a great little alcove in the room that seemed to scream “changing area.” Adding aqua baskets for organization on the first shelf of our changing table was first on the list because storage for Thomas’s diapers and extras was a must. I found the fancy safety pin at Hobby Lobby and knew it would look great in that space. Adding a hanging pendant light from Amazon to give us some light during those late-night changes made a great finishing touch.
The little play area is going to be a work in progress as Thomas grows. I started with a cute basket with arrows from K-mart for all of his toys. Right now, there aren’t very many but I’m sure that will change! Then, I ordered some wooden spice racks from Ikea (because we don’t have an Ikea close by..booo…) and my hubby attached them to the wall for our little guy’s books. We added a bold striped rug in front of the dresser and changed all of the pulls on the drawers to give it a more rustic feel.
The biggest piece of art in this nursery was actually made by Moi! The electrical panel to the entire house is located on the wall in his room. It seems to be the craziest place to put a panel like that and also makes for a great big eye sore. Since it’s so oddly shaped, nothing I found was big enough to cover it up. I bought the canvas from Hobby Lobby and painted this quote on it from Peter Pan. Bonus: it pairs with a hand-painted map of Neverland given to us and painted by one of my dearest friends.
Overall, I’m so pleased with how the room turned out. There are a few little things here and there I’d like to do, like organize his closet, but the nursery was ready for when our little peanut came home, which was really important to us. How do you like it?
