Getting to plan and decorate the baby's room is one of the things that has me very excited about being pregnant (besides the obvious...getting to squeeze and love our own tiny little person!). I love the idea of doing a room from scratch--and that's definitely the case here. I'll post some 'before' shots of our front bedroom, and a couple of the projects we've been working on, soon. But for now, here's the moodboard to get a general idea of the color scheme and design inspiration.
Because we're not finding out the baby's sex, we wanted the room to be gender-neutral, so the color theme is an orange/soft grey/turquoise palette. But we'd likely be doing that anyway because I have a strong aversion to forcing gendered colors on babies. Baby boys (and men) can wear pink! Little girls can wear blue (and heavy-machinery-patterned clothing) if they want to! Geez.
We also really wanted to create this room using as many secondhand/recycled and DIY resources as possible. We're already off to a great start on that.
The walls will be a soft grey (I believe the exact color is 'Shadow' by Behr) and we've already rehabbed a (free) vintage dresser and painted it 'Citrus Squeeze' by Behr (more to come on that). We've got a long list of sewing and craft projects for the room too, from curtains to crib sheets to a crib bumper to a lampshade to wall art and a mobile. A lot of beautiful fabric found on Etsy is in the running, and we just need to make our final choices.
I'm also hoping that we can find some way to get a special rocking chair from Phoenix to San Francisco for the room. My dad still has the rocking chair that my mom bought when she found out she was pregnant with me--that chair rocked all three of us as babies and is still not only in one piece, but comfortable. There's been talk of taking the chair apart and bringing it on an airplane. If that's what it takes, so be it!
More to come as we paint, sew, and craft for Baby Shira-Pasini!
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