Corners of the Nursery

The sun was shining this morning and as I sat and emptied some images from my camera I decided I really must get upstairs and take some of the progressing nursery to share with you. I have found this room, because of its colour and light, very difficult to photograph and even with a few tricks with blinds and lighting I still find it hard to display the true colour tone of the walls. So firstly today I thought I would share with you the actual paint colour as displayed online, it is called 'Intense Truffle' and is by Dulux.

I wanted to add handmade touches to the walls of the nursery to keep it more personal. I had angel wings in mind after buying this gorgeous carved pair from Cox and Cox, so I continued the theme with a feathered pair on one of the hoops, added a heart for my love of hearts and buttons on another and a little cute line of bunting on the third. The light is particularly difficult to work with on this side of the room, so apologies for the slightly blurred picture. The bunting is made up of different fabric samples I picked up along the journey of deciding the colour scheme for the entire room.

These frames sit on the opposite wall over a comfy chair. I painted and distressed the frames and made the pram picture at the top using the curtain fabric as the background. I have two prints for the bottom frames in both girl and boy versions, so all we need to do now is wait for little one's arrival to complete the look.

This is the chair below the frames and I find it fits my height and arm level perfectly, so hopefully many a feeding hour will be spent cosied up here. I bought the cable knit cushion and blanket from Mamas and Papas and the chair and rug are from Ikea. The changing bag you can just see is from OiOi and is in the brown giraffe print.

After pinning countless pictures of these Ikea shelves being used in childrens rooms and nurseries alike, I knew I wanted to work them into our room. My husband waxed them the same stain as the rest of the woodwork and my did that smell bring back memories from seven years ago when we built the house! We have two of these gorgeous little shelves either side of the window for books and toys.

Finally I wanted to add a little cuteness to the room with the addition of a few teddy bears here and there, so I painted this first teddy on a small square canvas. Underneath him I am planning on adding two hooks for clothes or toys to hang from. There are also a few cuddly teddies sitting in corners by the door, on the shelf and on the window sill, like this gorgeous pair, eagerly awaiting the new arrival.

As you can see the colour of the walls is different in almost all of these pictures, so any tips about taking shots of the whole room when it is complete would be much appreciated. Thank you for all your lovely comments on my previous few posts about my ligament pain. The physiotherapy seems to have helped a lot this time and I have just been taking it steady whenever possible. Hope you are all having a lovely week and would love to hear what you make of this little cosy nursery so far.