I have been a good student of the Internet over the last two weeks, gathering pictures from Google Image search and all my favorite baby websites to try to find inspiration for the baby’s room. After concluding that none of the premade nursery sets were really up my alley, I undertook the difficult task of designing the room from many disparate elements, and hoping all the colors and patterns match. This all for a room the baby couldn’t care less about being cute and coordinated. Is there a place to sleep? Check. That will be the extent of his standards. So why do we torture ourselves with finding just the right window valances, crib skirt, the cutest glider and matching ottoman (red with contrast piping – for an extra charge of course)?

Here is my position – it’s for our own sanity as parents. I will be spending a whole lot of time in that room in the coming months and years and I need to love it. Call that shallow, materialistic, whatever, but it just has to be pretty and that’s all there is to it!

So after much research in a fantastic, lifesaving book called Baby Bargains, this week I decided on and ordered a Munire crib, dresser and bookcase in black.  Progress!  I also found a picture of a room online that serves as my inspiration room (pic above).  We’ll paint the walls a pale, sky blue and add elements of lime green and bright red to the room.  I am not much of a “theme” person, but I may include some cute little touches around the room – wall hangings and maybe lamps – that include animals to give it more of a little boy look vs. the flowery girl look of my inspiration room.

So now as I wait the approximately 800 weeks it will probably take to get my furniture (backordered!  I fear it will arrive just in time to see my child off to college), it is time to clear out the room, hire a good painter from Kudzu and get started bringing all those fun little elements together that will make this room the best little nursery I, um I mean my little boy, could ever ask for.