This past weekend Tim and I made some major progress on the nursery. The nursery was previously our guest room, so we had to clear it of all the old furniture. We kept some and sold some on Craigslist, which by the way is super easy and convenient. Furniture sold the same day and someone came buy to pick it up for us! On Saturday, Tim re-painted the room because there were several areas where the paint had chipped from our previous paint job. We decided to keep the color as chocolate brown. I like that it's neutral and will let us do whatever we want with the colors in the room. We bought all of the nursery furniture (crib, armoire, changing table, other cabinets) at Ikea on two separate trips, one to Chicago for Christmas and one more recently to Atlanta. All Ikea furniture comes in flat cardboard boxes and requires a good bit of assembly. At the store, you find the boxes yourself in a warehouse-like room based on the location on the display tag. Enter our big mistake... We were so excited to get the boxes out and start assembling on Saturday only to find that the two boxes that we thought were the changing table were actually a chest of drawers from the same collection. This was soooo bad because we had driven twice to buy all of the furniture and shipping from Ikea usually costs twice the amount of the piece of furniture that you want. So, now we are changing crib-less and have one extra chest of drawers that cost $250. If you want to buy it from us, let us know! It is in brand-new condition. Maybe this will be our second Craigslist sell. Anyways, the rest of the furniture looks great and we can't wait to arrange it all and start working on decor, etc. Here are some pics of the furniture so far.
Armoire
Cabinet
Armoire and Cabinet with empty space for missing changing table :(
Sheepskin Rug
Crib
