Bubs' Nursery

Let me start this post by saying that I have an amazing husband and Bubby (and Jilly) have an amazing Daddy!  You see, when Julian found out he was having a son, he immediately went into nursery planning mode.  In fact, it was the thing that prompted him to start a Pinterest account.  He developed a vision of what he wanted Bubs' nursery to look like and we got to work on it.

In May, I went to El Paso with Jillian so that he could get started on the rooms.  He was working on Jillian's room (a post of Jilly's big girl room will come soon) and Alex's room at the same time (and working a full-time job, no big deal), and so it took him a few months to get all the details into both of their rooms.  For Alex's room, we decided on an elephant theme using grey and white with pops of navy and yellow.  Julian wanted to add chair rail to the room, and to paint the bottom grey and the top grey and white stripes.  Sounds easy, right?!

First, he painted the room white from top to bottom.  Then he added the chair rail around the room.  

Adding chair rail to the nursery

 Then he painted the bottom part grey and taped off the chair rail to paint it white, like the molding that was already in the room.

Painted grey on bottom and taping to paint chair rail

 And last, he taped off the room to paint the grey and white stripes.  This was no easy feat because the walls are textured so he did lots of research on how to get straight, clean lines.

Panoramic shot of the room taped off for stripes!

I think he did an amazing job!  And here is the final painted room!

This was taken at night so the lighting is a little yellow...but I think it still looks amazing in this light!

We bought Bubs a new crib since it seemed like staining Jillian's old crib to become white seemed like more trouble than it was worth.

We put the crib together maybe 2 days before Alex was born.  We got the crib and all the bedding from Pottery Barn Kids.  I had his name embroidered on his quilt and his initials embroidered on his pillow, just like Jillian.  Jillian could not wait to see her baby in the crib!

Julian worked very hard on staining Jillian's changing table and dresser from the cherry/espresso finish they were to this white finish.  We also took off the door on the right side.

Instead of the door, we added bins from Restoration Hardware Kids and got his initials on one of those too.  

And his amazing wall art was done by my good friend, Meredith, and given to us at our baby shower.  I think it is the perfect addition to his room!

Julian put up the valance in his room to make the room look more finished.

Now all the room needed was a beautiful baby boy to call it his own!  We brought Alex to his nursery the day we brought him home.

His first glimpse of his room

Sweet boy sleeping in his crib

Alex, I hope you know how much your Daddy and I love you, and how hard your Daddy worked to give you the nursery of his dreams!  Your Daddy worked tirelessly for months on giving you (and your sister) a room that any kid would dream of!  Daddy did all the hard labor...Mommy did all the shopping!  But every last detail in your room was hand-picked just for you with love!