guest room/nursery planning

so, if you read one of my older posts you know that i am planning on keeping the guest room for now but making it partially a nursery.  it won't be a full on nursery like z or ava had, but it'll be enough for now, and babies don't take up much space.  and also, this is #3 for us, so i have a pretty good idea of what i use and don't use and what's nice to have and what isn't necessary for us.  for instance, i have never used a changing table.  ever.  i just change the baby wherever i am.  i didn't want to have to take the baby upstairs if we were downstairs, just to change them.  so i have always just had some supplies in the places that we are the most often (like in the living room and in my bedroom), stuff like diapers, wipes, bum cream, a wet bag, and a fold up changing mat.  simple.  and typically the baby sleeps in our room for awhile.  z slept in our room for the longest, and we even co-slept with us, but that was not a great situation for any of us to get good sleep, so with ava we kept her in a rock n play next to the bed and then transitioned her to her own crib maybe around 5-6 months i think.  with this new baby i imagine we'll transition her to her own crib sooner.  after the initial SIDS risk period.  maybe 4 months or so.  but the rock n play next to the bed worked out so well, so we'll do that again.

anyway, the guest room will just need a little bit of tweaking.  the first thing we did was get the closet system set up, which i posted about previously.  then, hubby wants to scrape the popcorn off the ceiling, which is suuuuuuuuch a paaaaaain!  but we've (and by we i mean he has) been scraping the popcorn off one room at a time; the living room, ava's room and zabih's room.  then i'll paint the room, probably the same color i painted ava's room, it's a lovely light gray called moonshine.  then touch up the trim and doors and all that.  then the moving of furniture and decorating.

so i had purchased some solid wood nightstands from amazon awhile back, and planned on painting or staining them.  i decided to stain them because it might hold up better, painted furniture in our house seems to get chipped and scratched really easily.  i used two different stains and white-washed over the stain to make a faded look, i tend to like that style when i see furniture i like at restoration hardware and other placed that i cannot afford to buy furniture from.  but it worked out so well!  the plan is to move the bed over a bit toward the window, put the nightstands on either side, and then there will be plenty of room to put a mini crib on against the wall with some shelves and some artwork and stuff.  i still don't have every piece figured out but this is what i'm leaning toward, something simple, but pretty and neutral, since we will have guests in this room, too.

white mini crib like this

crib sheet like this and the llamas below

shelves like this

i like the general look of this nursery, namely the minimalism, simplicity, it looks clean and uncluttered, and i like the plant in there

i really like the idea of something like this above the crib

or this, it incorporates the name art and the pretty flowers and greenery

super cute mobile

i love this wall art

so nice

i like these triangle shelves, too

cute initial art

super cute mobile

so those are the ideas i have so far.  muted pinks and greens and natural fibers and textiles.  i always make the kids a name art and a mobile, so i'll do that for this baby, too.  for the next few weeks, i'll be trying to figure out the specifics in more detail.  we have a few more projects to finish first, and then i will have time to work on the guest room/nursery, but that's what i have in my mind for now.