Wall Art Meant for The Nursery

We at last hung stuff on the wall in the beanette’s room. Earth shattering right? Except it is in fact somewhat of a big deal considering we have not hung a single thing in the whole house except for a wreath on the back of the fireplace in the living room for Christmas. That is right, for the last month we were card carrying picture hanging virgins in the new house. But now that we made about 34 holes (yes, I counted) in the walls of Clara’s room, our v-card is long gone. So we snapped some pics of the nursery now that it has a little more flava.

The only real change from Clara’s room in our last house so far is the soft pink wall color (it has strong gray and purple undertones- more on that here). Otherwise, we have fairly much all of the same furnishings and accessories in there for now. You know, work with watcha got, blah blah blah. We think it’ll certainly evolve as she grows, but we enjoyed her nursery in our first house (it was the only room that was a bit hard to walk away from when we sold it) so we are cool with keeping things familiar for now and adding in some subtle tweaks as she grows. Anyway, here is what it is looking like in there now that we broke out the hammer and the level (34 times. did I mention we hung a ton of stuff in there? because we did):

Oh and see this mirror. We baby-proofed it.

Although the mattress will drop down more than a foot when Clara starts pulling up, we still hoped to make sure she could not somehow climb the walls and pull that big green mirror down. So after hanging it on the wall with a pleasant heavy duty anchor, we went overboard and chose to drive two looong screws…

… through two holes on the bottom of the frame. Yes, we screwed that mirror right into the wall. See that little silver nail-head hidden among the ornate mirror frame in the foreground of the pic below (and the one that is kinda blurred on the other side)? We used heavy duty anchors to hold them pleasant and firm. That thing ain’t going nowhere. And we even have the green paint that we used on the mirror to paint those screw heads so they are totally invisible among all that scrollwork around the frame of the mirror.

In other baby-proofing news, we also brought in outlet covers to nearly the whole house (still need to run out for a few more to complete the job) and of course we mentioned how our curtains are baby-proofed a while back in this post when we made them (they are held up with ring clips, so if Clara swings on them like a monkey the fabric will slip out but the rod and the ring hooks will not come crashing down. Because that would be bad. Anyway, on with the nursery pics.

The closet is in fact my go-to place in Clara’s room. It is large and I picture her in there relaxing on a beanbag and reading books when she’s a little older. So there you have the current state of the nursery. It is funny to think that a little over a month ago it was fully babyless and looked like this:

And speaking of my go-to girl, here she is now enjoying her room. This is the expression she gave me when I asked if she liked her block.

And this is what she did when I said “Now give me fierce! Work it girl!” while channeling Tyra.

I think she understands more English than my sweet Italian grandma.

Psst- For more info on where we got something in Clara’s room, click here for the full rundown.