Baby Scrugg's Room

Nope not ours!!! Our brother and sister in law are expecting a baby girl in January. They've been preparing her little room for months. Mamma Tine isn't much for sissy pinks and pastels, she likes it bold and happy, so she picked a color scheme of teal, lime green, orange, and a splash of yellow. The challenge for the tiny room was to make it as cheerful as possible because as renters, they were not allowed to paint the ugly murky wood trim and the tiny window let's in a pitiful amount of light. 

BEFORE:

Thus began Brainstorming sessions in which I put together in photoshop some ideas for Christine. 


IDEA NUMBER ONE: tapestry from Lebanon, white graphic prints, orange rug, brown crib (we didn't think we were allowed to paint it) Original bookshelf painted white.

 IDEA NUMBER TWO: Christine decided that she wanted to go with the changing table and dresser on the far wall and keep the bed in the room for company. So the tapestry went off the wall onto the bed. We added a mid-century modern dresser which we were currently on the look out for. Opened up those closet doors and added colored poof balls for a "mobile" (you're my hero Martha Stewart!).

 IDEA NUMBER THREE: Then we realized we could paint the crib white and we started finding all of the furniture to be painted white, we scrapped the picture and imagined filling in the space.

I suprised Mamma Tine by painting the room while she was at work. The bed went in, and the new baby stuff...and then later moved back out again.
Mamma tine was so so cool to think of doing this for art: She cut little elephants out of cardstock and pretty paper and glued them on a paper. 


They lacked the area to work on all of their DIY projects, so our garage became "project baby world". As a group effort, the crib was sanded and stained, evaluated, sanded again, primed and then painted. A rocking chair was re-coiled, foamed and painted white. They also painted a small table white  that was once a lovely dino-the -dinosaur-shade-of-purple. 


BEFORE/AFTER on the Crib!


BEFORE/AFTER CHANGING TABLE: