Welcome to My Nursery!

This weeks featured nursery is from Melissa over at Mama Monoblogs.

Melissa’s Bio- I’m a Preschool teacher turned stay at home mom and love it. I have two girls, ages 3 and 16 months, and would love for God to bless me with at least two more. I’m a newbie at natural and healthy living and am continually learning all sorts of things about it. I love God, reading suspense, my family, blogging and a strong cup of coffee. I blog about my family life, mothering and my journey to a more natural, organized, simple and green lifestyle at Mama Monoblogs.

On to the tour……

Ok. So right off the bat I have to tell you that this is a new look for my daughter’s nursery. I asked my husband to a) please hang a picture on my daughter’s wall that’s been needing to be hung for quite some time now and b) fix the border that was falling off. He decided to go ahead and rearrange her furniture, and make some other changes in the room as well. What you are seeing for the first time in these pictures, is also new to me. I’ve done some tweaking but I’m still not sure if I’m crazy about the new set up. But for now, we’ll go with hubby’s vision for the room and go ahead with the crib tour.

This is standing from the doorway looking in.

(Yes, that is a mountain of my daughter’s unwashed laundry you see in the corner. Oh, you didn’t notice it? Oh, well. Now you do.)

We live in an older colonial built in 1936. The rooms are on the smaller side but have a lot of antique “charm”. I especially find the tiny closets very charming. So to add more storage space to this room we hung some shelving and have an “open air” storage philosophy.

This is the view from the wall opposite the doorway where you can see the crib and armoire.

I love the nursery bedroom set we received as a gift from my generous in laws. It’s very well built and should last us through all of our children(and possibly grandchildren!!)

The theme I chose was one sold at Babies R’ Us. I’ll admit I’m a girly girl and I love pink for baby girls. So I found a theme that was pink enough and that could grow with her without being too baby-ish. This nursery was set up for my first daughter and pretty much stayed exactly the same (until today) for my second. We use a standard changing table with baskets underneath. I keep my cloth diapering supplies in the pink rolling storage bin to the left of the changing table. I also keep a few days worth of clothing under there. Once I run out I take the clothing from the armoire and put a few more day’s worth in the baskets. I do still use disposables at night so I have to keep a diaper hanger and diaper pail in the room.

Reading and Rocking Corner

This is our reading and rocking corner. It is also our storage corner. Although I have a perfectly good, large shelf to keep all the books on, I keep a basket of books next to the rocker since I’m too lazy to get up while reading to get more books off the shelf. I also keep storage bins for outgrown clothing there, ready to be taken up to the attic once full. The rocking chair was a hand me down. Many a cozy cuddle time has been spent in that rocking chair. I’ve always meant to get new cushions for it but never got around to it.

Baby Shrine Corner

This corner is next to the closet. I call it my Baby Shrine. I’ve done this for both my girls. I hang a small shelf on the wall and put a newborn picture of them on it along with, what my 3 year old daughter calls her “ born hat”, the little newborn hats put on them right after birth. I also keep any special gifts given to them or mementos from their birth. I hope to carry on this little tradition with any future children and hope it will be special to them as they get older.

So, there you have it. The grand crib tour. I hope you enjoyed it. Thanks to Donielle for hosting this and for all you wonderful readers for reading it.