Baby Maya’s Gray & Pink Nursery

Time is definitely flying. I can’t believe that it has been 2 years already since we prepared Maya’s Nursery. It seems to be so long ago, but at the same time feels like it was just yesterday. I still remember my excitement when choosing every little item that would match my imagination of a perfect pink and gray room.
I wish I would have more pictures made while renovating and decorating this room to be able to show the progress. But I wasn’t thinking then, that one day, I will try to share my story with you.

I’m not sure if I told you that yet, but we have purchased our home from an older lady that didn’t renovate for a very long time. The easiest way to describe the character of this home would be to call it “grandma-looking”. Maya’s nursery was the first room in the house that was totally finished. (Hence, the other ones are still in working progress).

Here is a photo of the room before renovations started.
As you can see – not too baby friendly.

The first step we approached was closing the second entrance to the room. There were two doors – you could enter the room from the hallway and from the kitchen. So we have decided to close the kitchen entrance for good.

Then it was time to choose the paint color – I knew that I wanted gray walls – but oh gosh!!! I didn’t think that gray comes in so many shades. Finally, we decided on one and went with it. The color turned out to be nice and warm. I wish to have written down the swatch of the color that we used, to be able to share it with you. I tried recently to match it up with some paint swatches for a friend’s nursery – and HDC-NT-27A Soft Pebble by Behr, was the closest match we could find.

Then, it was the choosing furniture time. A white crib was passed down by a friend; this saved us some money and also gave us the idea of keeping all furniture in white tones. Perfect addition to a crib was a changing table – that was designed to fit on top of it. Until I started using it I thought that changing tables are useless. But oh man, how I was wrong – this thing was just great. Didn’t take any extra space in the room and provided a comfortable position while changing the baby.

The dresser was purchased in Ikea and I couldn’t be happier with this choice. This, not too expensive but great quality furniture provided us with a great deal of storage. Using the trick of storing clothes vertically keeps all Maya’s clothes in perfect order. And trust me when I say (thanks to our great friends) this kid has much more clothes than she would ever need.
Oh, I almost forgot. This dresser came with black knobs, which I didn’t like too much. A quick fix to it was spray-painting it, and now all was perfect.

Before

After

While at Ikea, we purchased a side table, bookshelf, and bins for extra storage space. To add a little bit of soft character to those simple, square-looking bins, I have made grey bows out of ribbon and attached them to them. It looked all better now.

Last but not least in the furniture department was the rocking chair. I thought it would be a great idea to get it in pink. So we did. It was a little bit lighter in color than I would like, but adding a darker pink pillow to it fixed its paleness.

I wanted a big sticker tree on the wall for decorative purposes. It surprised me how expensive they were, and because of that, I came up with a much cheaper solution – painting them on the wall. Hah!!!

Me and my ideas. I never painted on the wall before – but what the heck, better late than never. So I did it.

To add some more pink accents – windows treatment were hung. I purchased bed sheets in soft pale pink as well. The pink elephant table lamp bought long time on the garage sale was a great match too.

We added some family photos for a personal touch. And the room was practically finished.

As I mentioned at the beginning, it has been two years since we did it. At that time there were only a few additions made. We have purchased a carpet – now that Maya is spending lots of time on the ground, it is nice to have a soft surface for her. Also, there was a storage hammock hung to hold her growing mountain of plush toys.
Other than that everything is as it was and we still love this little room as much as we did at the beginning. It provides a perfectly calm environment for little Maya to play during the day and to rest during night hours.