If you’re having a baby, you will need to have a space set up for them when they come home. I wanted to go over what I did to get my baby’s room ready. First things first….pick out where or which room you are going to get ready for the baby. We picked our office room which was kind of complicated since we had to figure out where to put it all but we decided we would put our office downstairs in the basement. So the clearing out began! Some of our friends came and helped us. We moved all the big stuff downstairs and got it all set up. As for the small stuff, we went through it and donated a lot of it just to get it out of the way.
Next we had to pick out colors. Now keep in mind our office color was dark orange so we had to put Kilz on the walls before we could put any color on them. Since we were having a girl, we decided on pink and grey as the new colors. We didn’t want to make all the walls one color so we put pink on two sides of the walls (we have 6 sides…I know weird) and grey on the rest.
Once the room was painted, we had the carpet shampooed. Now that the room is painted, it’s time to start putting furniture in it. After all the shopping for baby room furniture, we finally decided on a set (crib and dresser) from Target. Before I went to pick it up, I was searching for ways to save some money on it. I figured out that since I had the Target credit card, I could save 5% on my purchase as long as I put it on the card. Then, I have the Cartwheel app on my phone so I started going through it and what do you know….I found a 20% coupon in there off baby furniture. So I headed on over to Target and bought my baby’s furniture. Once I got it all home, we had to set it up. To say the least, that wasn’t much fun but it was beautiful when it was all put together.
I’m ecstatic to share with you this next part! We knew we needed a changing table for the baby’s room and as you noticed we didn’t buy one. My genius idea for a changing table was to use my mother-in-law’s tea cart. It had been in storage since her passing and I have no idea what made me think of it but it worked out perfect! So, we went to the storage unit; got it out, cleaned it up, and got it ready to use.
As for a rocking chair, our neighbors gave us one and it needed to be reupholstered. My husband had a good friend help us out with the upholstery and all we had to do was buy the material. So it was at this time, we decided on the white, pink and grey chevron pattern for the room. I found a mattress sheet that was in that pattern and a changing pad cover that was white and grey chevron.
Next would be decorating the room. As for us, our time was running out so we didn’t get much decorating done. We did put up curtains and a couple pictures. I went to Buy Buy Baby and found a curtain that we really liked and it was on clearance. When I got home, I realized that we needed two and Buy Buy Baby didn’t have another one in the clearance pile when I was there. I found out that Bed Bath and Beyond was the sister store of Buy Buy Baby. Since Buy Buy Baby was at least an hour away from me, I decided to see if I could get it at Bed Bath and Beyond since they were only 20 minutes away. Once I was there, I was informed that they could order it and have it shipped to my house. Genius!
Now you know how we got our baby’s room ready. Do you have any tips to share? Please leave them in the comments below.
Interesting. That’s something I hadn’t thought about before. Much appreciated.