Rooms are Finally Done... So Can It Be Time to Move Already?

Our timing leaves something to be desired since our home has been on the market for two months, but Sam and Anna's rooms are finally completely finished.  Or as finished as they are every going to be in this house.  About 6 months since they were separated into their own rooms and out of cribs, and I am satisfied- especially since it could all be dismantled within a month if we (please God) get an offer some day soon.  I knew it would be a gradual change over, but I didn't quite envision it taking half a year. 

First I decided on themes (the important part, right?).  Then we took down cribs and moved Anna into a new room (after emptying out our guest room). After that Anna's room was painted and we assembled metal frames.  Sam's room stayed the same color their originally nursery was.  Months later, the wooden frames were completed (made by grandpa).  We finally chose dressers for Sam from Ikea and painted them at the same time Daddy painted the wooden frames (this was a huge weekend project completed the day before we officially listed our home for sale, naturally.)  We quickly took the beds off the metal frames and onto the nice wood frames so the realtor could take the listing photos.  I changed my original thought to use vinyl wall decals I had found on etsy to the prints pictured below after much looking so they'd be more relocate-able to a new home in the new future.  They are a great deal less than wall decals and match so well too!

The prints ended up being made by an etsy seller in Israel so they took longer than I expected to get once ordered.  (But now I think it is totally awesome and unique that they have original prints from an artist in Israel.)  After that, I had to find frames that worked with the prints and the furniture.  Finally, I needed a spare set of adult hands to hang them which meant waiting until the next weekend when Daddy was home again.  So finally, finally, a week ago the rooms were as done as they are ever going to be.  Once we move, I'm thinking Anna's wall color will still be pink, but I'm leaning towards a green for Sam.

(Pardon the crappy photos- my good camera's lenses were too wide for the smaller spaces.)

 (Original letters that hung above Sam's crib were painted to match his furniture)

Finally done... so can we move already???

Making Progress...

We've been making major progress on Sam and Anna's big kid bedrooms, but are just a few wall decorations away from being completely done.  I have to scrap my original plans for wall art  beyond their wooden names (more on why later), and so that part is still not completed.

We separated Sam and Anna into their own bedrooms in late September when we made the transition to big kid beds.  It has gone mostly well.  The dressers we had used with the cribs went into Anna's room while Sam's room was dresser-less and a little sparse.  We were waiting on wood bed frames that were built by Grandpa Dan to proceed further with the room setup.  Then around mid-November we were able to bring the wooden bed frames home and begin the next step in the room transformation.

This weekend we were hard at work painting furniture (okay, Daddy was hard at work painting and assembling- I was hard at work watching toddlers and reorganizing rooms)- the two bed frames graciously made for Sam and Anna by their grandpa as well as two dressers for Sam's room we picked up at IKEA on thanksgiving weekend.  I wanted unfinished dressers for him so we could paint them to match his wood bed frame.  Sam and Anna have the same design for their bed, but Anna's was painted white to go with the dressers they've had since birth, and Sam's was painted a dark brown as well as the dressers. 

I got the plans for the beds from Ana White's  website, the same place I got the plans for the awesome learning tower we got last year, also built by Sam and Anna's grandpa.  In the rooms, they are more sturdy, substantial and well, nice than I thought they would be.  These beds are going to last Sam and Anna until they don't live with us anymore and buy their own furniture!  They definitely exceeded my expectations!

 

The new beds have created quite the excitement around here!