Sneaky Peaky at Elise's Nursery

Hi Friends!  We are almost done with Elise's nursery and I'm so in love with it that I can't wait to share a couple pics :)  I have a to give a little background on all the work we did first!  The furniture in her room is the furniture that I had in my room growing up.  It is pine furniture and had the light blond wood color to it.  Blake and I (with some sanding help from my friend, Kerri), sanded, primed and painted all 3 pieces white.  It was quite the undertaking and I'm soo glad it's finally done.  It involved a couple months of weekend work and at least 6 trips to Lowe's and down to my neighbors to borrow tools (Thanks CasaCullen)! We also put new hardware on all the pieces.  Then we painted 1 wall a teal color in the room. 

My parents came in town this weekend and helped with all the fun stuff!  I wanted to re-create this above her crib and I have to say we did a pretty fantastic job.  I think I like ours even better because it's bigger!  Then I wanted to recreate something similar to this.  This is artwork that is tons of flowers where each petal is a cut out heart folded in half.  It was pretty tedious but oh so worth it!  My dad also installed a roller shade that I can pull down in front of the blinds to make the room darker for nap/night time.  For those of you who don't do Pinterest, it's a pretty amazing place to keep track of all the things you find online that you want to remember for later.  I used it a ton to gather ideas for Elise's nursery.

Ok, so to the good stuff.  I have to include before and after pics so you can see the way the room looked before it transformed to a nursery.  You'll also see that there is just a side of the crib leaning where the crib will go.  Boston is still doing amazing in the toddler bed version of his crib.  We plan to move him into a Queen in the next week or two and then the crib will move to the nursery.  I have a hot pink crib sheet all ready to go for the crib.  I'm also missing a few things like a hamper, changing pad cover, etc.  But you'll get the idea!  Do you love it as much as I do? :) 

BEFORE: (these are a littler older, but pretty close to how the room looked prior to the transformation)

You can see the dresser in this pic before it was refinished.  We will wait and put the mirror piece back on until after Elise is out of diapers.  For now, we need the large top surface to serve as a her changing table. 

 AFTER