DIY Nursery

Have you ever sat down to Pinterest and planned the most gorgeous room then realized that you couldn't even afford the lightbulb in that room? Welcome to my world! Planning on what to do for Wendy’s side of the nursery was frustrating at first because I had a very, very limited budget to work with. However, having a small budget forced me to be creative!

I’m not big on theme nurseries especially since Owen and Wendy are sharing a room so I decided I wanted to go with fun and colorful patterns for Wendy’s side instead.  Husband and I always do house projects together which can be frustrating and ridiculously fun at the same time. I’m always in awe of how he can see a project completely differently than me, and come up with creative ideas that mesh well with my own ideas. So ladies, let your hubby’s be involved if they want to! The projects we decided to do for the nursery were: paint an accent wall grey, hand paint feathers on the wall, create a budget friendly wall design with fabrics, and figure out how to not spend $400 on Wendy’s baby bedding! Why is baby bedding more expensive than redecorating my entire master bedroom!?

Husband and I spent a day painting the wall grey and hand painting the feathers onto the wall. Then we went to Hobby Lobby and picked out some colorful fabrics we liked and multiple embroidery hoops (aka: cheap wooden sewing circles), then some plain wooden letters. We cut the fabrics to the size of the hoops, painted the wooden letters, used thumb tacks to put them up and we were done! Then we found a $100 quilt from Cost Plus World Market that we loved the pattern of (and is thin so the material breathes easily for the bumper) and decided to use that for the baby bedding! I can barely sew a button on pants so I called in reinforcements, my mom. She cut the quilt up and made the bumper, a quilt, AND burp cloths!! Plus there is still a ton of material left over! I couldn’t be happier with it.