one room challenge linking event week three: construction zone

Oooph. This week was rough, but luckily not because of Calling It Home's One Room Challenge Linking Event! My husband and I spent the latter part of last week into the weekend sick with a horrible bug, but we are back at it and hopefully this blog post will make some sense...

For the first week of this spring's One Room Challenge Linking Event, I revealed my plan to design a nursery for our baby girl, who is due right after the room reveals next month!

Last week I discussed problems picking out the paint color and difficult decisions while choosing furniture, but alas, I found the perfect paint and I am happy with my furniture choices, so without further ado...

This week the nursery was somewhat of a construction zone, as the crib finally arrived, so we got busy assembling said furniture!

As I mentioned last week, we chose the Babyletto Hudson Crib in the "Washed Natural" finish, which was back ordered until about two weeks ago. You can imagine my relief when I was able to order it and when it arrived in time for the One Room Challenge...and, of course, the baby!

Yippee! I almost ran over it! But I didn't! So onto assembling:

(If you are very observant, you can see that our glider arrived last week, too!)

I took advantage of the somewhat assembled crib to think about the layout for my Little Darlings prints from The Animal Print Shop. I registered for (and received!) a variety of prints, which I framed on my own using Sharon Montrose's framing tips. Ultimately I chose the following frame for my 8.5" x 11" prints:

Pottery Barn

After removing the mat and a little trimming, my prints looked great in their Pottery Barn frames!

I will wait to reveal how the prints turned out once on the wall--gotta leave a little something to the imagination! In the meantime, here is the crib assembled--I still need to find a skirt and style it with linens, but so far so good!:

I assembled our Honest Dresser when it arrived (in what seemed like a million pieces) a few weeks ago. With some help from my husband, we got it put together pretty fast! Now to figure out how to put on a diaper...:

For the space above the dresser, I wanted to recreate a dress display like the following one by Paloma Contreras over at La Dolce Vita. My mother kept most of my little smocked dresses, many of which she sewed for me, so I want to feature them as a special focal point in the nursery: 

via Babble

To build my clothing rack, I found a floating shelf that would be long enough for the towel bar I bought, and deep enough for the little wooden hangers I found:

Home Depot

Lowe's

Amazon

After the dresser, this project was a breeze!

As you can see, I have also mounted the curtain rods and was testing out the new curtains before potentially destroying them sewing on the yellow pom pom fringe, which will be my big project this week, along with hanging the paper lanterns. So be sure to come back next Thursday to see how we all survive!