Where do I start?
So, back when I wrote
this post I was all jazzed about my gray sophisticated nursery. I wanted the nursery to flow with the rest of my house and look "designer". I wasn't going to have the typical pink girl's nursery because how boring would that be? Since I got the
crib and painted, I've been at a hault. I haven't been able to find anything {affordable} for the nursery that goes with the sophisticated neutral gray that I was going for. Then I had the shower. Home came TWO TRUCKLOADS of baby crap. Guess what I learned? 99% of baby clothes, toys, stuffed animals, affordable nursery bedding, artwork, and anything else cute and baby related is PINK. Can you say "REALITY CHECK?" I have spent 2 weeks stressing out about how to hide all of the loud colors and pink. Can I buy neutral bins to put it all in? Where do I find neutral toys that she can have out? What if she gets attached to a bright colored toy and it totally puts a kink in her beautiful room. Where for the love of god, do I find neutral colored affordable cute shabby chic stuffed animals? I have been searching for months...
As some of you know, my neighbor is pregnant with twin girls! How exciting right? I have been helping her decorate the rest of her house, so naturally, I am helping with the nursery. The first advice I gave her was what I recently learned. "Look. Everything that's cute for baby girls is pink and loud colors. Find bedding FIRST that you like and build the room around that. Don't try to do something outside of the box, because it isn't practical". As I've been thinking about her nursery, it has turned out cute {in my head} and WAY easier and cheaper to accomplish than the madness in my house.
So, that brings me to today. I'm at Babies R Us just doing the usual: browsing around totally overwhelmed trying to add the "last minute must haves" to my registry when I passed my 5th cute pink item that I thought would be perfectly suited for my neighbor's nursery {which I have designed to be pink, teal, taupe, and white} and I got that "feeling". You know that feeling when you're not about to cry, you're not mad, but you realize that....YOU WANT TO TOTALLY START OVER AND REDESIGN YOUR NURSERY AT 32 WEEKS?!?!?
I dismissed it thinking "I can make what I have work. Hide the loud stuff and continue on. Pink
can work with the paint color and gray/purple chair fabric. It's too late in the game to switch concepts". On the ride home, I thought about my sweet baby Annie sitting in her gray room, playing with her neutral colored toys {cannot find} that I searched for months for and probably paid 4x the amount of a regular baby toy so it would match her room. I thought about her laying in her bed and looking up at her neutral artwork {that I still haven't found} and wishing she had some fun loud colored artwork and could pick up a toy at Wal Mart and play with it without giving me anxiety. {Oh, the hard knock life of a designer and the stress we go through}.
Then I started thinking, all I would have to do is repaint and call the upholsterer ASAP to put a hault on the chair until I could find a more suitable fabric. I haven't been able to find bedding, art, accessories, NOTHING because of the current scheme which means...not alot to "redo".
I had a mini panic attack at first thinking about it, but then I realized...finalizing the design will be WAY easier if I just go with the mass market colors and baby girl will probably thank me for not having to reside in a boring room where the only way you can tell a kid lives there is from the crib....
Could I work in some color with the current paint color and chair fabric? Sure. Would it be as cute as if I started fresh? Hell no. So fresh start, here we come...
The new inspiration will be bedding that I can find at a local Target, Babies R Us, and/or Buy Buy Baby mass market retailer. It will be fabric that is fun and playful. It will be more colorful {lets not get crazy though...this is still the queen of gray we're talking about here}. It will have pink. It will be FUN!
Stay Tuned!
-jd
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