I have been wanting to write this post for quite some time. The easiest time to take pictures and write a blog post are when my kids are napping. That poses a conundrum when your baby boy is sleeping in the room you want to take pictures of, but the other day I got the opportunity take some pics of his finished room.
When we found out that we were expecting a baby boy, we knew that we wanted to go with a vintage sports theme with some aqua and orange accents. The previous owners had some very bold taste in colors and the room that we wanted to make Beau's nursery was burn your retinas bright pink. Not appropriate at all for a boy, or anyone with eyes for that matter. Below is a picture. You may want to put on some sunglasses first...
This picture is actually from when the house was listed for sale. It is actually a cool room with great angles and a big beautiful window. But all that was overshadowed by the loud color and the oversized vertical blinds. We painted it the same gray that we used in Chloe's nursery and it is so much more calming...
This is the view as you step in the room. Please ignore the blade-less ceiling fan. We plan to get that replaced sometime before Beau goes off to college, but preferably this summer. It's on Kyle's honey do list.
Kyle and I have enjoyed using decorations in our kids' room that not only match the theme, but are also meaningful to us. Three of the baseball gloves were from Kyle's childhood baseball days. The glove sitting on the shelf holding a baseball is from the 1950s. I picked it up at a local antiques store. The solid orange ball cap also belonged to Kyle as a child. The orange and white ball cap on the far right was Kyle's Granddad's and is from the 1970s. He bought it when my mother in law was attending OSU.
On the left side of the room is Beau's crib. Chloe used it first and then we passed it on to Beau.
My mother in law painted the letters for Beau's name.
I just love how it pops against the gray wall!
My grandpa built this bookshelf for Beau. Like I said before, we love the touch of having
meaningful pieces from special family members in our kids' rooms. We want to stain it darker, hopefully also before Beau goes to college.
My good friend Leah had the verse Ecclesiastes 4:9 beautifully handwritten and framed.
It fits so well with our theme!
On the other side of the room is Beau's changing table. We like to use dressers for this purpose instead of a dedicated changing table so that our kids can still get use out of them as they grow out of the baby stage.
The artwork above the dresser are copies of vintage OSU program covers. They came from a wall calendar that I gave Kyle for Christmas the first Christmas after we were married. We kept the calendar so that we could frame the pictures in a nursery in case we ever had a boy.
This is what hangs on the wall to the left of the changing table. My mother in law painted the canvas with Beau's birth stats. The other canvas is a print that I purchased off Etsy and then Mod Podged to it a canvas. The scripture is Joshua 1:9.
Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.
Both times I was pregnant and planning my babies' rooms, the Lord impressed verses on my heart to hang in their rooms. I didn't realize it at the time but the Lord was also giving these verses to me because He knew that I would need them in the weeks before birth and in those early newborn days. Chloe's verse was Jeremiah 29:11. That verse reminded me that the Lord had plans for Chloe's life and that He was right there with me in my motherhood journey. That greatly calmed my first time mom fears of not having any idea what I was doing. In the weeks before Beau was born, I would have waves of nervousness about being mama to both a newborn and a toddler. But then I would remember the verse hanging in Beau's room. Again I was reminded that God was with me and that enabled me to choose to be strong and courageous and not be fearful.
I hope you enjoyed the peak at Beau's room transformation. The next room I plan to blog about is the formal dining room turned play room.
I mean really, who needs two places to eat?
(Picture is from when the house was listed for sale.)
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