Nursery

Baby Teddy's nursery is almost done!  We completely redid what we called the blue room in our trailor.  The previous owner redid this room prior to us moving in, and I can't say it was for the better.  It used to be a pastel blue with a victorian wall paper border around the ceiling.  The sheetrock on the walls was never seamed together correctly, so there were humps and crevices where they came together.  They also didn't texture the walls, so the paint was directly on the sheetrock and made the imperfections even more noticable.  When we tore the wall paper off, we saw that the sheetrock didn't reach the ceiling, leaving a 1-2 inch gap in most places.  Ugh!  So, not only did the room need trim around the floor, window, and door, it'd need some around the ceiling as well.  Needless to say, this room was somewhat atrocious!  I wish I would have taken a before picture to give you a good idea what it really looked like.

When we found out Baby Teddy was coming, we decided this room would be his, since it's closest to our room.  We decided to go with a western/cowboy theme.  Originally, Zach would only accept a John Deere bedroom, with green walls and yellow trim.  He wanted to put up his John Deere tractor collection on the walls and a giant tractor mural/sticker on the wall.  I was ok with a John Deere room, but I did not want a green and yellow room.  After some coaxing, I got him to like the idea of a western/cowboy theme.  Thank goodnesss cuz it looks so cute!

But, before we could do all the fun decorating, we had to fix all the problems in the room.  First, we tried puttying up all the cracks and seems in the wall.  Most of the major seams for the sheetrock couldn't be fixed unless we tore out the sheetrock, so we tried blending and sanding it down as best as we could.  Then we textured the walls.  This helped to hid a lot more problems.  In addition to adding all the trim, I thought it'd be cute to have a chair rail going around the room and split the colors of wall.  After cutting all those out, Zach was ready to be done with the room.  It was supposed to be an easy project, but turned out to be somewhat tedious.  Finally, with that all done, we could get down to the fun part, PAINT!  After the John Deere debacle, we decided on doing blue, cream, and brown for the colors.  The top half of the walls are the blue, the bottowm half and ceiling, cream, and brown for the trim and railings.  I was going to put cow spots on the bottom half of the room in the brown color, but Zach was against it and I never got to it, so it stayed cream.

At last the decorations and furniture!  The best part in my opinion.  I still have one project to finish as far as the decor.  I'm making a barnwood frame for a picture of Baby Teddy when he gets here.  It'll look like the picture we already have in the room.  I couldn't find any wood around the ranch that was big enough to work so I'm aging my own wood.  Hopefully it turns out ok.  Overall, I think the room looks amazing and is the best room in the house!  Teddy's going to live in style!

Here are a few pictures of the (almost) finished project!

The picture frame will go inbetween his hat and rope and spurs.