Our Nursery

     Here's a peek into our nursery. When we first painted it, my goal was to keep it gender neutral so the walls are a light apple green and our main accent color is blue. We had our daughter first so the other accent color  was pink. When our son was born, we switched out the pink for orange and I put up the maps and other boyish wall art.
     These colors are pretty much throughout my entire house. I love the fresh feeling they give. I want my house to be cheerful, relaxing, and promote creativity. I also want it to be a fun place for my kids to grow up in.

Here's a list of most of the items in the pictures and where we got them.

Passed down to us or bought second hand:

Dresser cabinet, rocker, bookcase, dark brown basket, bird pictures,

lanterns, map, crochet blanket, and most of our children's books!

 Ikea purchases:

Rug, blue wall shelves, blue chair, and mobile.

 Target:

Orange baskets and polka dot pail

 Photographs on the wall:

Nelson Fotography

Pretty much everything else was given as shower gifts. 

We are so blessed to have such generous family and friends!

$36 Laundry Room Makeover

I have always loved the idea of a pretty laundry room but have never justified spending the money to do anything with mine. That is until I had the idea of doing it on the cheap. And I mean CHEAP. Those mis-tint cans of paint at home stores have always beckoned to me but I've never actually bought any. That is until now! I crossed my fingers and found a wonderful grayish green for only $5. You obviously can't be picky and I wasn't. I just wanted a neutral.

Once I found my paint I looked through my scrapbook papers for color inspiration and found these designed by Amy Butler. So my pink and blue accents were drawn from these

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 A couple weekends ago, I found a fun set of ceramic canisters at a yard sale for $3 which hold my laundry bags, gloves, and laundry soap (labeled to avoid confusing it with any food item).

All the other storage items and a pink clipboard were from around the house either being underutilized or not used at all.

The wall art was made by me for free. I reused an old canvas of mine and the other supplies were already on hand.

I wanted to do wall hooks so I had the guy at Lowe's cut some decorative trim to fit pre-cut planks ($2.91 each). The hooks were on sale for $2.39 (originally $5.97 each) as was the trim (sale price $4.79). So these little hook projects only cost $28 for both racks. I probably could have found hooks at the dollar store, but I thought these were super pretty. They are the jewelry of my room.

My daughter and I painted and decorated an empty diaper box to hold party supplies. I borrowed this idea from another blog, but for the life of me I can't remember where I saw it.

So here are the before pictures. For your amusement, I left it in all it's messy glory!

...and after!

The grand total for my fun little makeover was only $36! I no longer need to be embarrassed to have people see it, assuming I keep it this way!