Our home is a traditional Cape Cod style house from the 1940s. Although it’s fully equipped with cute, quaint characteristics—it’s also filled with two very small bedrooms on the second floor. Turning one of these tiny rooms into the dream nursery I built on Pinterest? Challenge accepted.
Aside from the major parts of the renovating—painting, staining and floor installation have been consuming the last several weeks. Now that all of that stuff has been wrapped up and finished, this small space has become the perfect canvas to create this farmhouse, shabby chic nursery.
Remember when I referred to my husband as being a lumberjack? I wasn’t kidding! This soon-to-be papa insisted on building his little girl’s crib and changing table, and I wasn’t about to argue with that. Not only would this be a huge money saver, but it’d make her room all the more special.
I’m not sure how many of you have a similar quaint Cape Cod style home, but when you’re trying to get a crib up to the second floor … those adorable curved stairs aren’t so cute anymore. After ripping out an entire stair tread, the crib was finally upstairs and ready to be put together.
There have been a few times over the past week I’ve found myself wandering upstairs, for no good reason other than to take it all in. That’s not weird, right? As each day passes, it’s becoming more and more real that this pair will soon be a family of three, and I can’t wait!