I know I’ve promised this posts for weeks now, but trust me, it’s worth the wait because I’ve got even more to show you now :-) I have done little projects to keep me occupied and customize Jaxson’s room in ways I didn’t get to do with Savannah, and I’m loving the results!
First off though, I have to give some credit to my husband. See, my Mom let us have her old childhood furniture (and mine) to use for Jaxson but it really needed some lovin’ before it entered his room. The stain/paint was chipping off, the hardware was falling off and scratching the wood, etc. Plus it just looked…outdated…and needed a new look. I originally was going to re-do it myself because I am the more handy person of this O Couple, but one weekend while I was visiting family he surprised me by taking on the task of sanding and refinishing one of the dressers. He even picked out cool modern handles! This picture doesn’t do it justice (it’s darker, less red, in person), mostly because this is me trying to take a picture from across the room, in the corner, with my back pressed to the wall (Dear Santa: I need a different camera lens for these kind of things!).
Then, a few weeks later I added this mobile over the changing area. I bought this decoration at Hobby Lobby for my baby shower with the thought I could reuse it as a decoration in his room, too. However, it originally had a toile pattern on some of the dots so I bought a inch and half hole punch (scrapbooking section!) and punched out orange scrapbooking paper to tape on using scrapbooking picture tape squares. Super easy, but so time consuming. It took hours to complete, but I love doing that kind of stuff. However, it does need to be shortened because it would be in the way of Mark’s head when changing diapers or baby clothes.
Lastly, because of the sanding done earlier, the inside of the of the drawers had some powdery-orange-red old stain that I couldn’t get to wipe away and thus it was getting onto Jaxson’s sweet newborn clothes. I decided to line his drawers so that it would resolve the issue and remembered this easy DIY project one of my favorite blogs did a few months ago (tutorial here). I already had the Mod Podge and foam brush so I went in search for the perfect paper to use. I wanted to use wrapping paper as Young House Love did but I could not find anything cool enough, so I decided to find cool scrapbooking paper instead. For these drawers, I used 3 full scrapbooking papers to cover it (the VERY back has about an half and inch it doesn’t cover but who will ever see that?)
The fun colors and patterns make me happy to open his drawers, it is a shame I have to cover these with clothes and diapers, huh?
And that concludes our tour of the diaper changing area all completed :-) Still left to do: hang art work, find another pair of white tabbed curtains for his other window, and stain more furniture (ah hem, Mark). And even if those don’t get done, we’re pretty much set for his arrival. Tomorrow (October 5th) marks my due date one month away, whoa!
