Brady’s nursery is one of my favorite rooms, it is just so cheerful and gets a lot of afternoon sunshine (bad for nap/bedtime but that’s why we have black-out curtains).  Before he was born in our last house, we decided on a gray/yellow color scheme with a bit of an elephant theme.  But when we moved over to this house with him being a bit older (he’ll be two in September), we wanted to update it a little bit with a theme he could carry over to his big boy room one day.  So, we replaced his old yellow/white chevron print rug for a geometric print one with a lot of blues/grays in it, and have been adding some nautical themed prints into the mix.  I love yellow in a boy’s room so we incorporated a lot of the “yellow” items of decor mixed in with blues too so now we’ve got a blue/gray/yellow color scheme with a nod towards nautical. He still has an elephant side table and some elephant blankets (as well as his much loved “Ellie” elephant lovey), but it’s starting to transition into a bigger boy’s room instead of an infant one.

The biggest renovation in this room was a closet move.  Originally (and oddly placed) his closet was on the wall currently occupied by his dresser.  The wall is shared with the bathroom so his closet took up a lot of space inside our main bathroom.  Gavin knocked out that wall in the bathroom & his closet during the bathroom renovation and then moved Brady’s closet over to the corner of the room where it is now.  It makes the room feel more open, and it gives us at two walls large enough to put a crib on one and a dresser on the other without any windows or radiators to worry about blocking.  Gavin also replaced all the baseboard and door molding so you can see in the reno pics it’s all torn off.

Here’s how the room looked before & during renovation:

Here’s Brady’s room now:

Here’s a close up of the gallery wall. Two of the three prints I made, see more about that here, along with the B from Michael’s with the elephant (a carry-over from the old theme).  The other 3 prints I purchased on Etsy.  Mirror & Sunshine plaque are from HomeGoods & the oar is from Target.  Over Brady’s crib are two prints we bought at Su Casa and had framed at Michael’s.  One is of the Baltimore harbor and the other is of Annapolis harbor.

Still on the to-do list for this room is hang Brady’s book shelves (on the empty wall to the left of his window)…his old ones don’t work in this new room due to spacing, but a Facebook friend suggested a DIY tip that I can’t wait to try and then share with you all once it’s complete.

May 2015 – Brady’s room is no longer a nursery – here’s a few pictures of his big boy room including the Ikea spice rack DIY hacks we used for bookcases (and I think they were less than $5 each!).