Nursery Mode Activated – Final Phase

I wrote my first blog (check it out here) on my first shopping trip and how it made me feel included in this whole having a child thing. It made it more real, to me at least, when buying things for your future devil child, however since taking on the task of decorating the nursery, I have felt even closer to the little bundle of joy happily chilling out in the wife’s belly. Looking at the room, and though we both decided on the style, color and ‘theme’, it was me who did most of the decorating. It’s my first ever gift (apart from being an awesome dad) to my daughter.

My previous blogs (Phase one and Phase two) detailed the transformation from a man cave/den into a room with bright colored walls and some IKEA furniture, along with some Shakespeare on the wall. Since then, we have bought some decorations for the wall, curtains and a black out blind (pink of course), an awesome (if I do say so myself, which I do) rug for the floor and also two cute nightlights.

Let me show you the final phase of the nursery, the completed room.

Nursery Mode Activated – Phase two

So Phase one is complete, the painting is done. Not the best painting I must admit but I am not that good at cutting in, my other half (who actually is now my wife, so will now call her this from now on) is better at the cutting in than me, so may have to get her to do some touch ups. Phase one (Nursery Mode Activated – Phase one) involved painting the walls bright colors.

We believe and agree with the fact that bright colors and shapes stimulate your child and help promote intelligence, or something along those lines. We also just like bright colors over plain and boring colors, but that’s just us. So two walls are bright yellow, one wall is blue (the wall with the window) and the last wall is bright pink (the wall with the door). We also have put up a pink black out blind (the second one after buying the first which was too short and didn’t work. Lesson learned) and still need to buy some blue curtains.

So on to Phase two – furniture.