As such, it is my opinion that your nursery should be a bit of a dream come true, as well. Ponies and race cars come later. A nursery houses innocence incarnate. It holds your dreams. And it is a place you will likely spend a great deal of time.
Our nursery dream was for our little angel to spend time in a place where we found peace and comfort - the forest. We wanted a wide open sky and critters, trees and bugs, flowers and fun.
As it happens, nature-themed nurseries have grown in popularity over the last year - creating more material for anyone who would like to bring similar elements into their child's nursery, but who don't have the time to M-A-K-E it all.
A couple years before we got pregnant with our little Gremlin, I stumbled across a fabric that I ADORED! I purchased a quarter yard (small piece) to file away for 'when we were ready'. The fabric, of Heidi Grace designs, had all the elements we wanted to have surrounding our precious baby!!!
Fast forward a couple years and we were ready :)
By this time, the fabric was discontinued! I was beside myself.
I had planned out what I envisioned for the nursery. Mr. RC Homestead had started looking at paints... all that. UGH!
I went a little overboard in my attempts to retain the nursery of my dreams. A friend even offered to drive around to different fabric stores with me to search through their selvage/discount sections to see if we could find scraps. I contacted the DESIGNER (who was VERY polite, by the way... but sadly out of this particular fabric). She offered that she had seen it pop up on a couple occasions on Etsy, that I should keep my eyes out for it on there.
**The dream of parenthood will motivate you to do crazy things.
***The reality of pending parenthood will drive you to do things you KNOW are well past crazy :)
A miracle happened a couple weeks into my search, someone offered a couple yards of it on Etsy! Woo Hoo!!!
I emailed the seller and asked how much she had.. total. Because I wanted IT ALL!!! (this still makes me blush... I was a little intense about this dog-gone fabric)
She didn't have much, but I figured I could use it as a accent through-out the room and use the illustrations as inspiration through-out.
Here are the nursery pictures... I think it turned out pretty ok, if I do say so myself.
We painted a light blue around the entire room, then I ran a paint brush around the bottom and we painted 'rolling hills' below that line with a medium green tone.
We took trees and birds and bugs from the fabric and painted them all around the room...
I improvised a butterfly, because it seemed like we needed one!
We spent the chilly evenings of last winter picking away at little projects for the room. We must have spent a week of evenings working on this felt 'critter', grapevine mobile... but I LOVE it, and so does baby Gremlin
We refinished furniture over the summer, found a couple pieces, bought a couple on clearance. I found a sheep-skin-like fabric on clearance at the Walmart and covered a changing pad - looks great and no one knows its fake. In-fact, Gremlin couldn't care less :)
The lamp in the room was from Ikea, but they only had the shade I wanted in white... so I diluted fabric paint and brushed some color onto it. Tada! green!
We found an area rug at Gabriel Brother's for (get this) $50! That worked perfect for our 'dirt' floor.
We rearranged the room almost every week... the plight of the expecting couple.
By the time Gremlin was due to arrive, the room was just as we wanted it to be.
Here are a couple shots of the room 'assembled':
Inspiration can be found anywhere. :)
Don't give up, just because the fabric is discontinued. Any new parent in their right mind would chase that stuff down!
Happy NURSery-ing
--The Rubber City Homestead
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