Anna's room

Anna's room is complete, for the most part, except for cleaning out her closet, which is now storage, & of course, filling her closet with clothes!! :) You may wonder why I felt the need to finish her room so soon before her arrival, & I'll tell you! I will start to cover my supervisor's maternity leave the 2nd week of February & will be working about 25-30 hours a week for 12 weeks. This is a great financial opportunity for us & will look good on my resume so I'm glad I can do it. My supervisor will return 3 weeks before my due date at which time I will be done with work! YAY!! More on that later.....Regardless, I really wanted to get Eli & Anna's room done, living room organized, closets cleaned out, & several other chores done before I started this job. Plus, I feel good right now & I know later, I won't be so motivated!

We decided upon finding out we were pregnant that we would re-use Eli's nursery decor & furniture for baby & buy new bedding/decor for Eli's room to make his more "big boy" & save money. Thankfully, we had bought gender neutral nursery items for Eli so this has worked out great! While I know Anna will spend at least the first 5-6 months in our room to sleep (or more if like Eli), I like giving her her own space....maybe more for me than her :)

Anna's room used to be the guest room of our 3 bedroom house & it's pretty small. We had to be creative about furniture spacing. The previous owners painted it a dark brown & had white shelves on one of the walls. We decided to keep the shelves to save space (& money) by not having to buy a bookcase. Because the bedding already has brown in it, we decided to keep the walls brown & paint a stripe as we did in Eli's room. We chose green, since the bedding has a lot of green, & color matched paint at Home Depot. What's great about gender neutral or multi-colored bedding/decor is if you focus on one or two colors, it transforms the look. For Eli, we focused on the browns & blues. For Anna, we focused on green, brown & cream. In the end, we have only bought paint for the stripe & letters for her name.....yay for saving money!! For fun, you can compare pics here of how the same bedding was used in Eli's room....now for pictures!!

Eli's room is almost done, too. We have some more decoration to put up before posting pictures but I love it so far!! It's much more toddler friendly & thankfully we (grandparents did as part of Christmas I should say!) only bought the bedding, a lamp, a bean bag, & a few fabric toy bins. We're attacking closets this weekend....fun!