Baby’s Room is Done!

I am thrilled to announce that the baby’s room is finished!  Mike did an amazing job on it, with help in the last few days from his mom and dad, who flew in to attend our baby shower (more on the shower later).

I’ve already posted a few shots of the before, which involved Mike closing up a door between the tv room (henceforth known as the baby’s room) and the guest bedroom, so I’ll skip that.  Once the drywall was up, he primered the two walls that would soon be covered by an amazing  jungle scene.  Then it was on to the big project!

(Note: These are only a few shots of the process.  If you want to see more photos– not too many, I promise!– visit my Facebook album.)

We picked out some gorgeous colors to represent the sea and the sky, and Mike applied them first.

Next up was a green color, representing grass.

Mike then used his laptop and a projector to project pictures of a giraffe, lion, turtle, monkey, and tree onto some plywood.  He cut those shapes out with a jigsaw, then prepped (skimcoated and primered) the wood before turning it over to Nana Laura to draw on and paint the detailed animals (and tree).

Slowly but surely, all the animals were done.  Mike did the tree, I did the turtle, and Nana did the monkey, giraffe and lion.  Then Mike’s dad helped Mike mount the wooden figures to the wall in the baby’s room, creating a 3-D jungle display.

Here’s a shot of the men strategizing as they figured out the best way to mount the figures.

Once they had that figured out, they put up the animals and the room’s decor was complete (except for a few details we’re still working on, like a rug and maybe a couple of framed pictures for the other two walls).

The room looks amazing.  We are so excited for the baby to get here and to be able to spend time with her in that gorgeous space!