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A little update, and how the nursery actually turned out

February 2, 2018

Oh, hey there! What’s been going on for the past 11 months? Not that much over here, just few highlights:

Modern nursery

We finished up the Nursery for our impending arrival. The yellow crib ended up being a no-go. (remember the plans?) Do you realize how hard it would have been to paint all those little rails?! And we were going to have to do oil based paint to get the finish we needed, which was going to be even harder to work with. At the end of the day we ended up with the Hudson Crib  and it was definitely the way to go. Continue Reading…

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Nursery Plans

March 6, 2017

As soon as word was out that I was pregnant, people have been asking what the nursery is going to look like. And don’t get me wrong, I’ve been thinking about it for a while now. We always planned on the office becoming a nursery. We purposefully didn’t do too much in there and just got some simple Ikea desks to tide us over until the day came that the room would be transformed for a new tiny human. Here’s our plans for making the room worthy for the new babe: Continue Reading…

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Our home on Design*Sponge

February 14, 2017

photo by Megan Barnard

Wayyy back in September we had our house photographed to be featured on Design*Sponge. It forced us to finally add the finishing touches we never got around to doing, like adding pillows, hanging up some artwork, and just trying to make the house look Design*Sponge worthy. I’m still not convinced it is worthy of such a high profile blog, but it is such an honor to be on it! Check out the full article and all the photos here! Click through to see a few of the photos that didn’t make it to the post:

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Nursery Inspiration

February 9, 2017

Part of our baby prep these next few months is going to be getting Baby P’s room in order. That means saying adiós to the office and welcoming yet one more (small) renovation project. You know what, I shouldn’t even call it a renovation, just a small transformation. The plans are still in the works, but here are some nurseries that I think are pretty cool: Continue Reading…