Baby's Nursery -- The BEFORE

So, in the spirit of moving forward in my nursery planning and the never-ending moving of the rooms upstairs, I wanted to show you that indeed I am progressing! After we moved Witt's room to the guest room (shew! it's finished!), I transferred all the guest room closet junk to the center of the soon-to-be baby's room. OMG. Nash meet Mess. Mess meet Nash (sorry for the cruddy iphone pic):

THANK GOODNESS my Mom came to tackle it with me. After almost 2 hours of sitting on the floor, sticking down temperamental shelf paper, sifting through bins of Nash's baby clothes, I present to you.... the baby's room - STEP 1:

The room is still blue. I (we) haven't tackled the paint job and I haven't found someone I can swindle to do it for $100. So, for now, it stays blue. Note the bench (again... insert my swoon) and that yellow pouf. Awww... so sweet and can't wait to rest my tired feet on it while rocking. 

Let's talk rug -- So, meet my old foyer rug:

I had an epiphany before my Mom's arrival that the base colors match and the pattern would work because it won't fight the stripes that are in the crib skirt. Rugs have been a challenge for me as I want it big enough to encompass the room, but not too thick to fight the "shag" carpet we have throughout upstairs. Here's the problem: the checkered pattern you see just left of the tassels is navy blue and does not work. I'll come back to this next week with my Mom's BRILLIANT remedy for this. :)

Here's a close-up of my sweet bench (lonely as it may be right now - it will find it's rhythm soon) and a look at the closet. For those of you who know me... it will not stay like this long. 

More to come! But, for now, this Mommy-to-be-again is happy seeing things move along nicely. Big hugs and thanks to my Mama for her help XOXO