My husband and I started on this house project back in March of this year, and was finally completed on July 29th, when we had our baby boy Grayson. Enjoy some of these before and after photos of my baby's nursery.

Before starting to design this nursery, I had to research what I wanted to do with it. At first, I didn't even want to turn it into a nursery. I wanted it to be a guest bedroom and just have Owen, my oldest, share his room with his baby brother. But I realized that baby stuff can take up a whole entire room and since our house is limited with storage space, I decided to just turn this room into Grayson's very own bedroom.... and just so I have more room to store all of his baby necessities. It's a tiny room, so I knew I was going to be limited with what I could and could not do. I made a sketch of how I wanted the room to look like and sorry, excuse the horrible drawing. I'm not a true artist, as you can tell. And then I went ahead and did some online shopping to find the finishing touches. I got pretty much everything in this photo except the pillow case cover, I decided not to get it. Forgot why? ... as I'm looking at it now, I think I'll just go ahead and buy it for my baby.

The navy blue 5x7 area rug is from Target. I got it for $60.00 with free shipping. It took almost 3 weeks to arrive, not sure why it took so long since Target is known for their super fast shipping, but it did. The hanging mobile is custom made, I ordered it from Etsy from this one shop called, MadebyKateDesign. It cost $60.00, with shipping, total came to $70.00. I know, $70.00 for a dang mobile? quite pricey and my husband was pretty upset at how much it cost, but hey, I fully support creative artist's on Etsy, so I will pay for the price. These mobiles are unique, they're not mass produced and it's not what you would typically see in stores or in big nursery market these days. It's super cute too, I love it and my son Owen loves it too. When it first arrived, Owen thought it was a toy for him, but had to tell him that it's not a toy and it's baby brother's since he has his fishy mobile one in his own bedroom.

Here's my cutie son Owen. As you can tell in this picture, the baseboard was not installed yet. Husband did all the handy work in this work- the basebaord installation, the sanding, priming, painting, and putting all the furnishing's together.

The hardwood floors cost $400.00, and the base boards cost $50ish.

How it looked like during the process... it was a total mess! :(

Before the renovation process, this room was a storage dump. It took me several weeks to deep clean and declutter all the mess.

Bought the curtains from Target for $20.00, it was $10.00/panel. 

Unfortunately, my stuff is occupying my son's closet. Since Owen have the double closet in his room, Grayson's stuff is in his room.

White curtain's from Ikea, $30.00. They're the same ones in mine and Owen's bedroom. I absolutely love these curtains, so worth the buy and money! The storage bins are from Ikea, they're $5/bin. The plastic bins for my shoes are from Dollar tree, $1/bin. They're super cheap and I honestly would not recommend any one to buy them. The lid doesn't even stick/click to the bin. In otherwise, it sucks. The self adhesive paper lining for the closet shelf is from Amazon, $25.00.

Here it is, how it looks now. Got the dresser from Walmart for $160.00. The manufacturer is call South Shore. Its' the exact same dresser as Owen's and Grayson's, featured in the next photo.

And, here's my Owen and Grayson's closets in Owen's bedroom. Owen's is on the left and Grayson's is on the right.

I was kind of disappointed in the height of these mountain wall decals. I thought it was going to be bigger but I guess it was my fault for not measuring it before purchasing. I ordered it from Etsy, it took about 1.5 months to arrive because it was custom made and it was shipped all the way from Poland! Total was $100.00. My Owen loves it.

I forgot where I bought the white book shelf storage bin from, sorry, I'm just having a brain fart. But I remember it cost only $20.00 total, the gray bins I bought seperately and they were only $5 each.

A complete mess. This was right before I had my baby Grayson.

An overview of what this room went through...

And, here's the final look!!

The canvas I got from Shutterfly for a total of $110.00, I used all of my coupons and discounts to knock off $70.00. Yay, go me! :D

To end this blog, I leave you all with this...

That's all, thank you all for reading!

Read about my son Owen's nursery project here: Owen's Nursery

Love,

Choua, Natural Bliss Photography