Keeping Up with the Coxes: Daddy's Little Painting Buddy

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Daddy's Little Painting Buddy

The past few weeks have been spent cleaning and organizing the new nursery. For the first several years we were in the house, the middle room served as a second guest room but when Jacob moved into big boy furniture, we needed a place to store the nursery furniture. Over the past year or so, more and more things had been stored in the room until it became full!

It took us many days over the break and days since then to get it all out and decide what would stay and what would go. Once that was done, it was time to paint and think about how we are going to decorate!

Since we had a long three day weekend, Nathan decided to go ahead and get the painting done. It started with a nice coat of primer on Saturday, which Jacob was a big help with! He loved wearing daddy's shirt and helping in such an important task! On Sunday, we painted each wall with a small sample of the paint and watched it through the day to see how the light would change. When we were sure it was the right shade (blue, for some reason, is tough!), Nathan painted two coats.

The nursery is now painted a pale blue- "Ocean Breeze" (very fitting for the nautical themed room!) and we're ready to start the fun part, decorating!!!

More pictures will definitely follow as we continue to add to the room. We still have three months until the baby's arrival but with work and being a mommy, I know time will fly by!