the baby's room

We've given ourselves one week to get everything put away and in its place. I hung the curtains on Friday, and most of the pictures are up! So, the hub and I have taken to Baby B's room. We were originally going to do a chair rail and paint the lower portion pink. The idea of an all pink room gives the hub the heebie-jeebies and makes him think of pepto bismol. Well, standing in Lowes using my Blackberry to do calculations, we figured that the trim would cost about $100. Ugh. Then we figured out that once the crib, dresser, rocker-glider, and changing table were in place, you probably wouldn't see much of the pink. So, we decided to paint the whole room pink.

Off to Sherwin-Williams we went, and with bedding in hand I matched up the middle pink to "In the Pink." We got the paint home, taped off the room, and opened the paint can. It was seriously as pepto/cotton candy as it got! We figured that we had just sprang for the no-VOC paint, we might as well try it out (on one wall). One wall was all it took. There was no way we were painting the entire room in this bright pink! We retreated to let it dry and figure out what to do next. We came down to two options: paint the entire room a lighter pink, or leave the one wall as an accent wall. I grabbed the crib bedding and made the crib (sans mattress which is on order for delivery in 4-6 weeks....arghhhh.....) to see how it looked with the wall. It coordinated perfectly! So the accent wall stays.

Here's the room prior to painting, with our green biodegradable drop cloth, which made the pink putrid.



The hub enjoying the painting duties, and noticing that the pink looks kind of prissy.



But with the bedding (Country Cottage from Baby Gap) it looks great! So the pink stays, just no longer on every wall in the room.