baby jake's room

honestly i didn't think we would have baby brother's room ready for him before he arrived.

but sure enough we did!

it came together rather easily. 

a few months again i wrote about my inspiration {here}. we had a ton of good ideas. 

brother's room started out looking like this..

it was pink and girly and working as our toy room. 

the first step was removing all the toys. next up was paint. it took a few tries but we found the perfect gray for baby brother's room. 

we choose a gray that was a few shades darker than the wall color to paint the changing table. the changing table is very special to us and tim has painted it for each one of the babies. 

we found a crib for $20 on a swap site and purchased a new mattress. i found striped sheets at target. once the crib was up and the changing table was painted and ready to go all the furniture was in place.

now it was time for finishing touches. 

first thing was sewing a few blankets for mr. jake. for each baby i have made a baby quilt. going to the quilting store is one of my favorite things. i enjoyed picking fabric for our little dude. as we started working on his room i decided to stick more with grays and blues. here is what i came up with for his quilt.

here is how the quilt turned out. it was really important to me to have his quilt ready for him before he was born.  

earlier this fall tim and i had looked at fabric and had picked up some baseball fabric. well it didn't really fit with the quilt. so i decided to make him a baseball blanket. makes sense right. the big girls questioned the fact that brother got an extra blanket that they didn't have. made me laugh. oh girls.

with the blankets done. i started decorating the walls. one of my favorite things in brother's room are these arrows. tim and i made these arrows out of lath my dad pulled out the bathroom in their house. i had my dad save me a pile of lath, which he gives me a hard time about, but i think it is so cool to have a piece of the farmhouse in jake's room. 

and finally.......baby jake's finished room. 

brother has a lot of blankets.

the co sleeper moved to our room as soon as he came home.

i made these curtains out of a shower curtain. i think the blue stripes are perfect in jake's room.

the girls had a great time helping me pick out letter's for jacob's name. i had to paint a few of them to make them fit the color scheme. we found baskets at target to use in the changing table to hold all sorts of baby items from diapers to wipes to extra blankets.

i found a few fun prints online. and the iowa state bear was daddys. perfect.

i am so happy with how jake's room turned out. it is the perfect space for our brave little man.