A baby boy nursery reveal! I couldn’t wait to get started on his room and I wanted the nursery to be a place I would enjoy being day in and day out. I wanted it to be calming and open and airy, slightly “boy-ish” with an emphasis on books and blues and greys.  We live in a Cape house so the bedroom ceilings are slanted. It makes it tricky to design a space but he’ll be short for a while so he’s less likely to bump his head. This room was yellow. The same awful yellow as our entire house. We had a painter strip the walls and then paint the walls Moonshine by Benjamin Moore. All the trim is Decorator’s White. We also installed the ceiling fan/light since the room didn’t have any light at all.   Enjoy!  

Baby Boy Nursery Reveal:

Almost everything in this room was a gift or something that we had already. Except for the dresser. The crib is from Babies R Us and so is the crib sheet. The rug is from Overstock.

I tried to organize the IKEA dresser but only time will tell if it makes sense. The lamp, clock and shelves are also from IKEA. The Giving Tree book was the guest book at my baby shower and guests wrote sweet messages to Javi to read when he’s older. The el gato and the little prince prints are from Etsy. The metal J is from Michaels. I thought about getting all the letters in his name but I decided I liked the single J.

I really love the built-ins in this house and we have them in all the bedrooms. I wasn’t sure what to put on the little shelves next to the drawers but decided to put little items that people gifted to us. The blocks are nursery rhyme blocks, the stuffed animals are Star Wars characters (and Sean is very specific in NOT calling them stuffed animals). The sheep on the top left is a piggy bank we bought on our honeymoon in Ireland. The knobs are from Etsy, too.

I really wanted books to be a major theme for Javi. I love books and I hope he does, too. So I made sure the book shelves were low and I like when books face out — I think kids are more attracted to them when they can see the front of the book rather than just the book’s spine. The shelves are spice racks from IKEA that “we” spray painted white. My aunt made the pillow cases as decorations for my baby shower.

My mom got me the glider from a yard sale and my aunt covered the cushions with new fabric. The end table was Sean’s from when he was little and the ukulele is Sean’s, too. The window AC won’t always be there but it’s very hot and necessary now. The windows do all have black-out cordless blinds from JCPenney but no curtains. The framed print was a free download online.

The end table near his crib was in the house when we bought it. The elephant picture above his crib is fabric over a canvas. I hung the mirror low enough so he can see himself during “tummy time”. The door, which you can only see a bit of, is a screen door. We took off the regular door and put that on instead. Our reasoning behind this was to keep the cats out but still allow them to see in the room so he’s not such a mystery to them. It’s recommended by the ASPCA so we’ll see if it helps.   There are number of things I still have but aren’t up yet. I have a Montessori mobile and more decorations and prints that I’m just very indecisive about where to hang so I must wait. But all in all, I feel like his space is ready for him. Which is good since I’ll be 38 weeks tomorrow.