The Domestication Project

For the first of my house updates, I’m showing off this little bedroom. We’ve decided to make it our combination guest room + nursery for now, with plans to later turn it into a room for both Eli + Sophia. At that point we’ll relegate the guests to the smaller bedroom (sorry, future houseguests).

This is the picture I took when we first walked through the house. It was a really difficult decision to finally get rid of the pink lacy curtains in this room, but we eventually decided they had to go.

Here are some before + after shots of the room…or really I should call them during + during shots, because the first of each photo is after Nathan started working on the house, and the second is what it looks like now — but we’re still decorating and putting on the finishing touches.




This is actually one of the rooms to which we’ve done the least. Here’s the breakdown of what we’ve done so far:

–refinished floors
–painted trim + walls
–painted ceiling
–installed basic (IKEA) light fixture
–updated electric wiring + added some power outlets
–brought in minimal baby furniture + guest bed

Most of what I’m planning on doing in this room is purely decorative and is definitely on the back burner until we finish more pressing projects around the house. But here’s the plan:

–find that piece of trim that’s missing from behind the rocking chair (it’s probably deep in the bowels of the shed)
–hang art on the walls and fabric bunting (similar to this) over crib
–turn closet into baby/kid closet (add an extra hanging rod and some shelves)
–add some sort of window treatment
–add a rug (probably just another IKEA sheepskin in front of the crib)
–come up with more appropriate lighting (one lamp doesn’t work and the other is huge — borrow from the living room)
–speaking of lighting, possibly replace $3 IKEA light fixture with small chandelier (down the road)
–replace bedding with what’s currently in the master — a pale green wallpaper motif duvet (it’s a little more sophisticated and will also be easier to coordinate Sophia’s decor with)