Plans for a Baby Girl Nursery

Hello! I am so glad you stopped by! Today I am sharing something that I’ve been planning for a while, and I absolutely can’t wait to get started. We’ve known we were having a baby girl for a couple of weeks now, but with Social Distancing, we haven’t been able to get out and do much yet as far as planning and buying things for the nursery goes. Lucky for me, I have a garage full of supplies, so I have some things I can be doing while I’m unable to go to the hardware store.

First, I want to show you the mood board I put together for the space, then talk you through the plans.

As you know, my favorite color is blue and I can’t stand the thought of not having blue in a room in my house, so I wanted the focal points of the room to be blue. I’m planning on painting the dresser that’s currently in our bedroom a light blue (we’ll be buying a new dresser for us), and the artwork I’ve picked up from flea markets is also in the blue family.

Thankfully, since this is our second child, we already have most of the big stuff. We will be reusing the rocker (no longer sold) and crib from our son’s room. Having a second child is SO much easier. 🙂

I’ve already ordered the rug pictured, and if you follow @rumfieldhomestead on Instagram, you’ve likely already seen it rolled out in the space. I’m not completely decided on curtains yet, I have these IKEA ones as a possibility. I don’t like to buy things from IKEA without seeing them in person first, and since I can’t go there right now with all the Shelter in Place ordinances right now, I’ll have to wait and see. I do want something of a dusty pink color though. Not too in your face baby pink, but something to tie in some of the colors from the large painting I have.

And then lastly, the walls. I knew right away that I wanted some blue floral wallpaper in this room, and I fell in love with this one from a small Etsy shop. I quickly realized I did not want to blow the majority of my nursery budget on wallpaper, so I came up with a plan that miiiiiight be a massive fail. Here’s what I’m thinking:

I am going to try to use a projector to project a floral design on the wall, and then trace and paint myself. I’m not super great at free hand drawing (and by not super great I mean actually terrible), so I don’t trust myself to draw my own pattern. I’m not entirely sure the projecting and tracing thing is going to work, so you’ll have to stay tuned. But, if it does work, I will save myself a lot of money on wallpaper! I’ll also be able to get started right away, because I have the perfect shade of paint already in my garage.

Things are a little weird with everything that’s going on, but I’m excited to be working on this project! That’s all for today, friends. Have a fabulous day!