4.02.2008

Baby's room!

As we continue to celebrate Week 38 here at Horniculture ...

Last night, we gave you the new guest room ... and tonight we give you Baby's room!

First, here's what it looked like when we moved into the place a few years ago ...

Eventually, the room became Kates's office space ... It was the last room we painted after moving here, and after thinking long and hard about the color, Kates wanted it orange ...

It was a great, cozy office space, and it served its purpose well ... But it was time to move on ...

Ultimately we decided to stay with the orange. (And there was a fleeting moment when we thought it would be good to paint the ceiling yellow, too, but we won't talk about that ... ) We had a clear vision of how we wanted the room to look. Kates picked out a swell theme that featured animals and the alphabet, and we went with it ...

This is the view from the door ...

... There's a funny story to that bare wall above the bed, to the left of the window ... Kates and I registered for a set of wall art that matched the bedding and the quilt we got (see picture below). We almost bought the art ourselves during a trip to Babies R' Us a few weeks ago, but after looking at them again in the store we decided they were unecessary ... Then, we got the wall art for a gift anyway, and started thinking that bare wall would be a great place for them. We got excited to put them up and thought they would be the final touch on the room ... But when we took them out of the package and began placing the pieces on the wall, Kates noticed the word "giraffe" on one of the pieces was missing the "ffe." ... They were completely gone, like that car commercial were the "h" has disappeared from everything to find a new home ...

The room also has lots of stuffed animals and books -- two elements that were really important to Kates and I. Over the years, both of us had held on to boxes of our childhood books and animals, in hopes that we could incorporate them some day and share them with our children ...

The shelf below includes Kates collection of Classic Pooh characters along with my musical lamb, which has lost a lot of its stuffing, but it still winds up and plays a great lullabye! ... Also on the shelf is my beloved Ernie doll, whose ears are falling off. He got so much wear and tear that Grandma Horns had to sew him up for me countless times ...


And finally a shot of the changing table and Kates's antique dresser, which I refinished with a little help from my pops ...

1 comment:

E and K said...

The room looks awesome! I love the orange. I'm getting excited to hear about the arrival of your little one! And, as a side note, how about those Jayhawks!!