Nursery & car seat

We picked up the car seat from Mum's today (at the same time as the chest of drawers and mirror). It's ace! We went for the Maxi-Cosi Cabriofix in deep red. This is the one that goes with the Stokke (which is also in Red) as part of the travel system so luckily our choice was limited! There are soooooooooooo many car seats & base unit things. Decisions aren't my forte at the moment.

We've painted the nursery! Finally. Painting skirting boards is my least favourite job, officially. It's so fiddly, especially around radiator pipes & when there's carpet - bleh. Anyhoo, we've done it now & we really love it. The worst part of the prep work was getting the effing border off. Who sticks a border onto woodchip?? In this day and age? Seriously. We managed to get most of it off and the glue that was too stubborn, we left and painted over. I suppose the woodchip was a bit of a saving grace (I can't believe I said that) as the glue remnants look like part of it when painted over! Wooh! Score.

These are the colours we've gone for:

Door = hideous

I know the door is hideous. We have plans to change all the doors in our house, but there are 13 so that's an ongoing project on the back burner for now. I took the photo above this way because if I took it facing the window it distorts the colours. I took one facing the window anyway so you can see more of the room:

Dubious phone pano

So now you get the gist of the room; the carpet is a chocolate brown. It's not the biggest, but babies are small! We have some pictures (donated by Mum from her house - Mickey Mouse limited edition paintings - thank you!) to put up and a mirror that goes with the chest of drawers. The cot is coming some time in July I think. We have the mattress already.

We're still um-ing and ah-ing about curtains and the light. We have a blackout blind so the fabric isn't too much of an issue. We were going to have an Alfie set as there is a changing mat too and it would be nice to have some matching stuff, but having painted the room I don't think it would go. Then we saw this but decided it'd be too much white. We quite liked these, but think it would be green overkill. There are loads of really funky nursery sets at Walmart, so bright & colourful. What is this English obsession with pastel, pale colours for babies? It's INFURIATING! I decided to have a look on the Ikea website on the off chance, they usually have some good kid's textiles. This is what we found for curtains, and we're still struggling with the light. This is by far the most challenging room decoration project ever. Even looking at the Ikea curtains again I'm not sure they'd look right; maybe if the walls were white instead of the colour they are. Hmm. Perhaps Alfie wouldn't look so bad after all??! My god this is getting out of control...enough.