{Baby Holt #2} Nursery Plans

When Kevin and I found out we were adding a little man to our family, there was no doubt in our minds what direction we wanted to go when it came to designing and decorating our little man's nursery. Knowing I love all things vintage and Kevin was and still is an avid baseball/softball player, we knew we wanted our little guy's nursery to be a vintage baseball themed space. 
When I first started working on an inspiration board, I had all intentions of creating a neutral room with pops of red. I was envisioning a space with burlap, linen, and touches of crimson ticking fabrics. I was thinking of using old Coca-Cola crates, cracker jack boxes, and a pair of red converse sneakers to tie in that vintage feel. So when I stumbled across the most adorable bedding on Etsy, I knew I could make my vision come to life.  And so I did when I created this little inspiration board. 

After showing Kevin my inspiration for Boston's nursery, he agreed that he loved it and told me to start making some purchases...starting with the bedding. Which is when we got some very bad news. The bedding that I had fallen in love with and used as the basis for my entire inspiration board was currently no longer in stock on ETSY and sadly, the seller would not be able to make another set like it. Can you say major bummer?!
After scouring the internet for hours on end, I just couldn't find any tan and red bedding that I liked enough to work with my vision so I decided to start over from scratch and come up with a new plan. After relooking through hundreds of bedding options, I stumbled across Restoration Hardware's bedding and fell in love with this gray and navy striped ticking bedding. The ticking stripes definitely gave a vintage vibe and I thought,  hey, let's see if I can make this work. So after an hour at my computer, I finally created another inspiration board I loved just as much as the first. And you know what? Kevin loved it even more! So without further ado, here's our plans for Boston's nursery. Fingers crossed the bedding doesn't sell out before I can get my hands on it... I don't know what I'll do if that happens!

What do you ladies think?! Is it fit for a future baseball player?! 

Nursery Reveal

Over the weekend, I finally got around to posting the tour of our home that I had been promising to post for months. If you happened to check out our home tour, you realized that I left out pictures of Harper's nursery and promised that they'd be coming soon. I'm sure you probably expected to see Harper's nursery reveal about the time you'd see her first birthday posts since I'm so bad about making blogging promises and not sticking to them. But, I was so excited about revealing her room, that I decided to blog about it right away and not make you wait until she's getting ready to upgrade to toddler bed status. haha On top of that, our baby girl is due tomorrow and what's a better day to reveal her room then the day before she's expected to make her big debut?!

So without further adieu, welcome to Harper's room!

Her room is by far my favorite room in our entire house. I've definitely put more effort into decorating this room than any of the others in our home. We still have a few things we need to do to her room like add storage baskets to her chest, place her baby pictures in the wall gallery, find a lamp we like better for her room, and find a picture to put above the cube shelf. But for the most part, the room is complete and we're in love with it! I hope you like it as much as we do (:

Nursery Sneak Peek

Over the weekend, Kevin and I worked on Harper's nursery. Saturday morning, we got up early and moved the bedroom furniture out of her room and moved it down the street into my brother-in-law's apartment for him to use in his spare bedroom. We were so thankful he had room for it and could use it since we had no where to store it! 

After we got her room cleared out, we headed to Greensboro to pick up her baby furniture. Thank the Lord my father-in-law volunteered to drive his SUV to Greensboro in case we needed him to bring anything back because when we got there we were amazed at how big the furniture we had ordered really was in actuality. When the people brought the boxes of furniture out both mine and Kevin's eyes popped out real big! The furniture boxes were huge! They were so big in fact that the only way to get two of the three in our truck was to stand them straight up! Thankfully the smallest box was just the perfect size for the back of the in-laws Explorer. Had the box been an inch longer or wider, we'd have had to have made two trips to Greensboro that day! lol And after driving home on the highway going 15 under what I usually go in fear of the furniture flipping out of the truck, my nerves were shot and I wouldn't have made it back to Greensboro for a round #2! lol But in the end it all worked out. 

Thanks to Kevin's family's help, we got Harper's furniture set up and her bedding on her bed. I was so excited to see how well all of the pieces worked out in her room and seemed to just fit perfectly where we wanted them. I was hoping to do just one overall nursery reveal post but it's going to be a while before I have everything the exact way I want and I'm dying to share some of it with you guys; so for now, I'm going to leave you a sneak peek of the main pieces in her room! 

Here's her bed and bedding! We love how great the two go together!

What do you think?

Nursery Inspiration

One of the things that I've been looking forward to since I found out I was pregnant is decorating our baby's room. Shockingly enough, it's one of the things my husband couldn't wait to do either since he found out he was going to be a dad. Might I add, this is the first time he's ever shown interest in how the house is decorated other than he's the one who picked out our living room furniture because "he knew exactly what he wanted but just couldn't find it anywhere". lol So the fact that he was excited about it fueled my excitement even more.

Before we knew Harper was a girl, we picked out the furniture and chose the bedding sets that we liked for both a girl and a boy. Unfortunately, by the time we found out she was a girl, the bedding we had picked out was out of stock everywhere. So we had to start hunting again for something that we liked just as much. After surfing through hundreds (no lie) of bedding sets, we still couldn't find anything we liked. Then I started looking on roomzaar.com at baby nursery's in hopes of finding some custom made bedding that we liked. Lucky for me, I landed on this adorable nursery and fell in love with it. As soon as I saw it I showed it to Kevin and he fell in love with it too. He loved the use of the red as it's his favorite color and he felt like the colors blended with the rest of the colors in our home. So we decided that was the bedding for us. So then we started hunting for it; only to discover the bedding was two years old and wasn't sold online anywhere except for a store where it would cost close to $400! On a whim, I decided to check on ebay to see if anyone had a set and lucky for me, someone did. I was fortunate enough to find a lady who had bought the bedding set but hadn't used it. So after getting in a bidding war, I grabbed that bad boy for $65! Score!

Since her furniture and bedding were ordered last Friday and are officially on their way to our house, here is my inspiration for Harper doodle's nursery!

1. Here is Harper's gorgeous bedding. The set is called Delilah and is made by Cocalo Couture. It is just what Kevin and I were looking for. Both of us did not want a nursery that was "babyish". We wanted a nursery that was sophisticated that would grow with our child. We absolutely love the idea of using rich colors such as red, teal, yellow, and brown in the nursery instead of the traditional pink (which I'm not a fan of!).

2. I absolutely love her mobile! I think the birds are so cute and thankfully birds are a huge thing right now so it'll be easy to incorporate little trinkets and what not's into the room's decor.

3. I love floor length curtains so I definitely want to add them in Harper's nursery. I've been debating on what color to accent her room with but I think we've finally decided on red since it's her Daddy's favorite color!

4. For Harper's furniture, we chose to purchase the Simmons Adele Caffe collection from Babies R Us. I saw it back in November after I stopped in one day to kill some time before meeting a friend at a nearby restaurant. As soon as I saw the set sitting in the middle of the floor, I knew it was for Baby Holt!

5. I saw this cute monogram wall decal and I think it will be the perfect addition to go above Harper's bed! The bird will pick up perfectly from her mobile!

6. As a last minute decision, I chose not to purchase the lamp that matched Harper's bedding set. I was afraid that if I had too much of the bedding pattern in the room it would ruin the look. So I decided to look for a simple red lamp. I happened to find this one at Target and I thought it was simple, modern, and cute! I haven't purchased it yet but once we get the nursery together, I think I might just have to see if I can find a place for it (:

Well there's some of my inspiration. I got an email today that the furniture arrived at Babies R Us and Harper's bedding and mobile will be here by tomorrow according to the tracking number from UPS and FedEx. So check back sometime soon because I see lots of decorating in my weekend plans (: