Nesting: Home Projects

Okay, let's talk about how my nesting energy has kicked in full force and I've been working hard to get all these projects finished. We've been working over the last 6 months or so to get our window seat and downstairs bathroom exactly the way we want them - but I had one more project that was just eating me up. I wanted to get it finished SO badly. 

The Mudroom. 

So much unused potential. SO much mess. I really should have taken a before picture of the coats and shoes and bags all over each other, because it was just so full of stuff. It took me a long time to figure out exactly what I wanted to do in there, but as soon as I got the picture in my head of how I wanted it to look (specifically seeing the functionality that it could have) I was like a dog with a bone and could think of nothing else anytime I walked past. This is the before: bare, bare, bare. I had my garbage cans in the corner but mostly it was just piles of coats and shoes and bags and gloves. 

So for Christmas, I asked my dad if he would come down and help me do it. I absolutely know that he would have come down in a minute if I had just asked him to, but it made me feel better to pretend like it was a Christmas Gift. (They still got me a separate Christmas gift, so really it was just my dad being wonderful.) It took me longer than I thought to track down the counter that I wanted in the corner because I started out with thinking I wanted to make a wood/butcher block counter, then moved to thinking maybe we'd just try to find a remnant of a laminate countertop, to finally finally finally finding the most beautiful piece of marble countertop! But, you may not know... marble is heavy. Like heavy-heavy, weighs 800 lbs heavy. So even our little 18x30 inch countertop was so heavy I couldn't pick it up. We were worried about getting it mounted as a floating countertop safely - but my dad, being the amazing builder he is, helped us make sure everything was secure and he made my vision come to life! 

There are no words for how giddy this room makes me! I love it so incredibly much I can barely handle it. The shoe dividers and upper shelf on the one side and the floating countertop and the hooks (oh the hooks!) on the other. It turned the space from "potential" into "functional beauty"! And hello, look at that marble countertop. It's gorgeous. 

I love it SO much. (Did I already say that?) It's already made such a difference in that little space. I grabbed a $5 clearance clipboard and $5 flower at Target, used an extra cork board from our basement, and printed out a few little prints to hang. (My favorite one says "It's so good to be Home.") The whole space is just so clean and functional and I adore it. Huge shout out to my dad for coming and basically doing it all for me, because I wanted it done so much but there's no way I could have done it being so pregnant while David was working so much. 

The Powder Bathroom

Having that finished made me really really want to finish the bathroom downstairs. I posted about it in December (Projects). I finally found a rug/hand towels that I like that fit with the space and I picked up a few other decorations to finish off the shelves. Love!

The Nursery

So throughout this all this nesting, the "nursery" has pretty much gotten zero attention. But after finishing up those other projects downstairs I got really excited and moved into the nursery to work on just a few little things. I think I'll post pictures of the nursery when it's all finished - but I'm excited about finishing off the last blank wall in that room!

I slowly worked my way around the room over the course of the last 3 years or so. I remember just sitting and holding Austin in that big chair and staring at the blank wall across from me wracking my brain for what I wanted to do. I honestly just started in one corner and moved from space to space until I only had this big blank wall left. I wasn't sure what I wanted it to look like. I picked up that space print for free at a yard sale and grabbed some twine at the store for $1.50. It wasn't until I actually started taping up the twine that that geometric shape started coming out. I was thinking I'd just clip things on the string in a line or something, but I love this so much more. There's a few things left to do before I post pictures of the whole room, but I also printed out monster-letters of baby-boy's name (!) and hung them above the crib. I'm so happy and it makes me so excited for him to come. 

Real Life 

So after I finished these areas, staged them and took pictures of them - I was so excited that I posted them to instagram. Then I felt like I was giving an inaccurate representation of my house and so I took this picture: 

This is pretty much what the rest of my house looks like right now. It's a disaster. So now my nesting needs to jump from finishing projects into cleaning mode! 

Really though, I'm so happy. Yay for finished projects!