our home: miles' room

first of all, i always grew up learning a name like miles or charles (ending in s) meant that the possessive was miles'.  but in the last couple of years i've been seeing names ending in s (possessives) as s's - like miles's... anyone out there know if the rule i grew up with has changed?  weird.

anyway, as you know if you read my previous post about the girls' room and their move this summer, you'll know how much rearranging went into getting the boy's room ready.  lots of trying furniture here, moving it there, getting rid of this, adding that... on and on.  but it's finally finished!

it started out with me wanting to do as little as possible - i don't know about you other mom's who have waited and waited for that energy surge that comes with the second trimester, but this time around it just never came.  i'm kind of still waiting for it...  so i was looking for a nursery that would be as low maintenance as possible (without feeling like i did absolutely nothing).  i had the green block wall from when the girls were in here, so i decided i would go with a green and gray color scheme, maybe throw in some orange here and there.  the first thing i did was get moving on the crib bedding - specifically the quilt.  i need to get some better photos of the quilt, but this will give you a taste:

greens, grays, a bit of orange.  the back is solid gray and the stitching is part gray, part orange, in a square grid.  i kind of loved doing a boy's quilt for my own child.  the bumper pads came after... i debated not doing them at all (zero motivation, remember?) because i really have only ever had them for decoration - not because i feared my child would bump into the crib bars.  and isn't it the latest in child-raising philosophies to do away with bumpers, blankets, and toys of any kind in the crib?  who knows, that stuff changes every few weeks it seems.  so, i set out to find some fabric for the bumpers and, while i tried to avoid chevrons entirely, i ended up with it in orange.  i'm just kind of over chevron on principle that it is everywhere! but the lines and geometric esthetic kept calling out.  i did one side in the orange and the other side is in a light gray/white polka-dot (again with a simple, clean pattern)

since i had enough fabric left over, i made a lumbar pillow for the chair.  ahh the chair... it has actually been a happy accident - what i mean is that i had planned on getting a new chair altogether.  i sold my nursery rocker that i recovered when i was pregnant with kate with the plan to get a new, sleeker chair. before running out and buying something else, i moved this one from the living room into the nursery to see where the chair should go (just for furniture arrangement).  i left it for a few days and decided i liked the size of it in the room and i even liked the color - i was already thinking it wouldn't "fit" in there because it was blue and this was not going to be a blue room.  but the color grew on me regardless and now it lives here.   the mobile was a gift from my mother in law (who didn't know what colors would be in the room) and with the addition of the chair, it couldn't be a better match :)

i moved the dresser from our bedroom into miles' room - i got rid of our changing table and opted for something with much more storage.  it turned out weston and i still needed a lot of the drawer space in here but there are four baby designated drawers, drawers equal "things stay hidden", and it provided a welcome change to our bedroom arrangement (i.e. freeing up a bit of floor space in a small bedroom).  this was a positive move but one i tackled on my own - it was a beast to move out of our room, through the small hall, and don't forget the doorways!  

i repainted 2 of the colors in the wall - after finishing the quilt i realized the colors in the wall were quite pale in comparison and it needed just a slight punching up.  it was kind of annoying to do, but definitely worth it.

the globe and animals were pilfered from elsewhere in our house, but the letter M i made and was pretty excited about the outcome.

it was one of those projects that, while you are working on it, you wonder if it is going to look as ghetto as it feels... i almost tossed it a few times while stitching.  but when it was all finished, and especially framed, it all came together and it's one of my favorite things in the room.

i made these prints in illustrator one afternoon . again, i wanted something that was linear or geometric, and this way i was able to use the color palette - as well as toss some blue into the mix.

the last thing i did was make curtains - this took me the longest to getting around to doing.  the reason for this was because i was hoping to just be able to find something i liked.  fat chance, apparently.  why does that always happen?  anyway, i gave up and gave in and headed out to the fabric store.  i had decided to find more of the gray with white polka dots and do a panel in the white tablecloths i bought for the curtains - yes that's right :)  i hope they don't read too badly as tablecloths :)  haha.

i used what i had of the gray to make a valance to top it off.

 

and there you have it!  i actually love this room - just enough "stuff" to feel like i've made a welcoming room for baby miles to call his own... you know when he's two or three and realizes he can call it his own ;)  weston and i keep doing what we've done (and i'm assuming everyone does) with all three pregnancies - finding ourselves tucked away at night in the nursery, talking about bringing another baby into the family and what that will mean.  i'm still kind of in denial about how this is going to rock my world and this is the easiest time i've had not wishing away these last few weeks, hoping for an early baby.  i'm realizing just how easy it is to take care of this third child while he is still in me, rocking and rolling around :)  ready or not, november 12 is coming and i'm glad i feel settled about his room and what we've added to it!