Nursery- Trellis Walls

Baby girl's nursery is finally DONE!  What a relief.  There's something so comforting about knowing we have a place to put baby when she arrives.  Even if she doesn't have a name... at least she has a place to sleep and be fed and loved and cuddled!  Who really needs a name anyway?! :)

I thought I'd spend the next couple of days showing you some of the fun projects we did in her room.
Starting with...........

The Trellis Walls

I loved the result of our board and batten in the living room so much that I decided I wanted to do some sort of wainscoting in the baby's room too.  Only, I didn't want to do the exact same thing.  That would have been much too simple. Nothing can ever just be simple.   I wanted to do something I hadn't seen before.  That's not to say it's never been done, but just that I hadn't seen before.

So, one day I was thinking about it and I had this image in my mind of big diamonds.  Feminine and perfect.  Immediately I knew there would be a lot more wood, cutting, and nailing than the last time, but this is my baby girl, no amount of work would have seemed like too much.  Although, if I had realized how much math would be involved, I likely would have changed my mind about the whole thing. :)

I pre-painted all the mdf and walls.  Only I was a few boards short, and more than a little short of patience, so for the last few cuts I just stuck the primed board in there.  So here it is all up with wood filler on.

I did a lot of the manual labor in this room while my husband was at work because I felt self-imposed pressure to get it done by a certain date. Not totally sure why I did that, but I'm glad now that I did because this was a tricky little project. You know, the kind you shut the door on and forget about for a few days at a time to keep your sanity. I'm already a little crazy though, so I figured may as well forge my way through the crazy and get it done.

Although, I did leave the sanding entirely to my husband. He sure loves his baby girl too! Who else would spend so much time sanding down the walls of a room just a few hours after a bottle of peaches exploded in his face, a trip to the ER, and six stitches above his eye! Scary. Such a good daddy.

For this wall, I decided not to add a ledge to the top.  I think I've mentioned before just how small the bedrooms are in our house, and I didn't feel like I could give up even an inch more for the ledge.  Instead, I decided on just a clean and simple 1x6 for the top trim.

I love how it turned out.  Feels so calm and comforting in her room, which is the feeling that I was going for.

I had originally planned to paint the top part of the room in a super pale blush pink, but somewhere along the journey decided that I wanted to keep it tan and just accent the room in pink.  I'm not going for pink overload here, just simple calm elegant.  I guess I'm trying to get a lot of feelings out of such a little space.  It seems to be working though.

Check back soon to see my DIY Baby Bedding!