Final Reveal - Our Finished Kid's Room

Like another major project I can think of, this project ended up taking longer, being more difficult,  sometimes painful and exhausting, and time-consuming than I originally expected. As of today though, we are calling this project done. (The other one should be wrapping up soon.)

the original office

Let's take a minute to remember where this project started- with an overly-crowded office that had accumulated lots of stuff that really didn't belong in an office but had nowhere else to go. So we started by removing everything, including our cookbooks, and organizing it. Next we started on what became a huge project to touch up the trim and paint in order to have the floors refinished. Once they were done, we started moving in all the furniture and fun stuff we had purchased. We refinished a dresser that we found on Craigslist. I got my sewing machine humming and made baby blankets, floor pillows, a crib skirt and curtains. And then we finished it all up with a little floating shelf.

Here's what we ended up with:

the right side of the room - crib and glider

closeup of the crib with map and mobile

the map and mobile

view of the mobile from below

the glider with a poof and new lamp

the left side of the room

the floating book shelf and boat kite over the radiator

boat kite at night with its fairy lights on

closeup- the boat is pretty awesome at night

closeup of my floating shelf with its little bitty plants

closeup of the dresser and changing table - love the knobs!

wall art grouping above the dresser

the little blue table will be multifunctional

floor pillows hang out by the dresser- ready to be sat on

The intended resident of this room has not arrived yet, but the unintended ones definitely have. The cats love this room. Not only have they started stockpiling toys on the rug and playing under the crib skirt, they both love to nap in the room. Wally prefers the chair (hence the towel), while Syd prefers the crib.

getting ready to nap in the morning

cribs are just way too big, even for cats. 

So - here's a reminder of the original plan. We wanted light and bright, and gender-neutral. We wanted something kid-appropriate that would be fun and interesting for a baby, but could also work for a growing kid. We wanted it to fit into our house, without being too themed or matchy. I wanted lots of patterns and pops of color. What do you think- how'd we do?