Day 63 - 34 weeks, 3 days - 2 months + and my ideas for Cortlandt's room...

So last Friday was the 2 month mark.  2 months...8 full weeks of bed rest.  I have gone from 25 weeks, 4 days to 33 weeks, 4 days (as of last Friday that is).  Those weeks have flown by in some ways and just dragged in others.  Being at home has been a true blessing and I am able to help with Liam (get him dressed, watch him take a bath, play with him, all things that can be done sitting) as well as help around the house a bit, as in perfecting my laundry folding skills.  I have also watched a sickening amount of TV and movies, ohhh and Friend episodes and lived on the computer.  Like I said before, some days fly and others drag...The ones that drag leave me way too much time to think, and usually my thinking goes to all the things I can’t help with and do, especially Cortlandt’s room.  Many of you know that it is absolutely KILLING me that I can’t do anything in her room and that the thought of her being born and coming home to a room with just furniture is not sitting well.  Soooo, I thought I would use this post to share all my ideas and wants for her room as well as make me feel like I am accomplishing something in there, even if it is just sharing my ideas with all of you.  So here we go...

My desire is to create a shabby chic room, full of soft pinks, soft tans, whites and ivories.  The furniture we have had since Liam.  It is a beautiful espresso color...

Crib/toddler bed/full bed.  LOVE those convertible cribs =)

Night stand

Dresser - it has a 1930's-1940's feel to it with the middle of it being rounded out a bit.

The dresser mirror

The knobs that I would like to put on the furniture.  These are from Home Depot and I think it will make the dresser and night stand a little more girlie =)

We also have two corner shelving units that Joey has painted white that we will be using in her room.

Now, onto the fun stuff =) ...

Bedding -

I had a vision in my head of what I wanted my little girl's room to look like.  While I was looking for bedding, I stumbled across Restoration Hardware Baby & Kids and found this picture.  I had no reason to look any longer!

The bedding =)

Close-up of the pillows.  The edges of the ruffle pillow are not hemmed, so it really has that shabby chic look and feel to it.

I would LOVE to get this pillow and have Cortlandt monogrammed on it.  I think it will be a nice addition to the two other pink pillows when they are all in the crib (obviously when Cortlandt is NOT using the crib).

Walls -

Joey installing the chair rail =)

Pale pink for above the chair rail.  I wanted to match the bedding, but be a little lighter.  I also did not want the room to look like it threw up pink.  This was a perfect combination.

Pale tan for below the chair rail.  I'm hoping that once we get two coats on the wall it will be a little darker.  The swatch from Home Depot was darker then this...if not, I might be re-paining the bottom part of her room once she gets here.

This is a wall sticker from PBK, Pottery Barn Kids.  I LOVE it and might try to paint something like it on the wall around the top of the dresser mirror.

Decorations -

My main decorating idea, and the jumping off point for the whole Shabby Chic look, I thought of over the summer.  My sister had a Barbie calendar in her room which had vintage prints of Barbies in beautiful outfits.  I told her that if this kiddo ended up being a girl, I wanted to frame a few of those pictures and hang them in her room.  Well, I found the calendar on Amazon and that's exactly what I'm doing =)

Scan of the back of the calendar with all of the prints.  I can't decide if I want to do all long dresses or two long and two short.  Counting across from L-R, if I do all long I will use numbers 1, 3, 8, & 11.  If I do a combo I will use 1, 4, 5, & 8.

A close up of what they look like =)

The frame -  The pictures are 12inx12in, a hard size of frame to find.  This is the frame I will use.  The prints are too big for me to use the mat and the frame is too big for the pictures, sooo, I will have to have some custom mats made once I can leave the house.

I have had an image or picture in my head of what I wanted the Barbie prints to look like and where I wanted them.  I was doing a search for frames and came upon this picture.  LOVE it when the picture in my head looks so good in person =)  I'm only using 4 prints because I only have 4 frames.  I'm not sure if I want to will stack them in two rows or put them all in one line.  I will have to see once the room comes together more and once they are actually framed.

I LOVE this lamp!!!  This will be how I spend some of the Target gift cards =)

I originally saw this lamp in a Land of Nod catalog over a year ago.  Well it will soon find a home in Cortlandt's room =)  It's absolutely perfect...already distressed and it has little sparrows on it...LOVE IT!!!

Cortlandt received this as a shower gift from a close family friend.  It's a bird bank from PBK.

I have two of these from when Liam was a baby and we are still using them in his room.  Joey's Mom bought two more for Cortlandt's room.  One will hold diapers and the other will hold rolled up blankets.  They are from PBK.

The "My First Anywhere Chair" from PBK.  Liam used his until he could not fit in it anymore and now Cortlandt has one too.  Once I have driving privileges, I will take it to get monogrammed =)



Another PBK purchase.  I have this from Liam, with a sage lining.  I will get the pink gingham lining for Cortlandt.  This was a cute and handy way to keep everything diaper related in one spot.



Liam this large basket in blue with his name on it.  I plan of getting one for Cortlandt as well with her name on it.  Liam's was first used as a hamper and is now his toy basket.  Another soon-to-be PBK purchase.

This has to be the cutest piggy bank I have ever seen.  Cortlandt received this at her shower.  It is from Nordstrom's and it turns out that they will put pretty much anything you want on them in any color.  Soooo going to be a go-to baby shower gift from now on.  Liam wants one and he has informed me that it has to have his name in blue with blue airplanes on it.  Once I can drive I will get him one of his own.

I plan on ordering one of these in pink for Cortlandt.  Those are Liam's 5 month old foot prints =)  The company who made this is called Twelve Timbers.  Some of their banners and other decorations are sold at Lone Star Baby, but this one I ordered from them.  If you order from them, you are able to pick the color background and text you want.

Another Twelve Timbers order.  Lone Star Baby does sell this one in pastel colors.  I ordered Liam's in the dark blue to match the other banner.  I will get Cortlandt's in pink...and it will obviously say "girls" instead of "boys" ;-)

Yet another Twelve Timbers buy from Lone Star Baby.  Cortlandt will have a pink and white one with her initials "CGC".  Oh and for those of you who don't know, Liam's full name is William Joseph Coates III, hens the "WJC".

I LOVE these shelves from BPK!!!  I would love to find some like these and put have Joey put them on one of her walls.  In my opinion you can never have too many shelves.

Curtains -

Curtains are one thing I cannot decide on.  I don't know if I should go with plane white curtains or curtains with a pattern or strip in them.  Here are two that I love, one is a stripe with pink/white/sage and the other is solid white made from the same fabric as the bed skirt and ruffle pillow...

These are the stripe ones from PBK.  They are currently on sale, so I might need to decide fast.  I love that they will give some life to the windows and add a little sage into the.

These are from Restoration Hardware Baby & Kids and match the bedding dust ruffle and pillow.  I would only order the window panels and I would order them in white so they would not blend into the pale pink wall.  I LOVE the shabby chic look of the ruffle and that they match the bedding.

I think this is probably the longest post in history so I will end it here.  PLEASE leave comments about what you think.  Seeing as how the room is a major work-in-progress any thoughts and ideas would be greatly appreciated.

HUGS and love!!!

~Charlotte