Furniture for the New Nursery

Hey friends!  I have been busy around here and I thought I would share a bit of progress.  With my new little man on the way, I have been in “nursery” mode.  Actually I have been in nesting mode and this week it took on the form of the nursery.  Love me some nesting.

I will be making his bedding and this is what I decided on for fabric…

It’s called Pooches and Pickups by Laurie Wisburn for Robert Kaufman.

I found it online and fell in LOVE.  I haven’t started the bedding yet but did decide to go with a black crib which set the tone for the rest of the furniture.  Last week I showed you my PB Knockoff Storage System I built for the new playroom.  I love the way it turned out and decided it would make a perfect piece for the new nursery as well.

I used the same plans from Ana’s site to build these.  I used 3/4″ MDF for the entire piece.   I had the nice man at Lowe’s (who ducks and runs every time he sees me) cut all my wood for me.  Actually, I sent my sweet hubby and stepdad to get the wood cut for me. Whoop! I used 3 sheets of MDF at $30 a piece.  I also had them rip the bead board for the doors and that sheet was $20.  My total cost for lumber was $110 which I thought was great!

I used Gorilla Wood Glue and 1 1/4″ brad nails to assemble everything.

I painted the whole piece with Valspar Black satin paint.  I am going to add a coat of satin polycrylic to the whole thing but haven’t quite made it that far yet.  I assembled it in the nursery and took some pics to show you guys…

I used some pulls I had leftover from building the house on the doors.  I found these at Lowe’s.

I will be doing the same storage boxes on the bottom as I do in the playroom.  That is my next project… I think.  Unless this whole nesting thing takes me a different direction.  Don’t worry.  I will keep you posted 🙂

I hope you like it!  I can’t stress enough how fun and truly easy it is to build with just a few tools.  It really is easier than putting together store-bought boxed furniture and so much more rewarding!  Plus, I spent less than $140 on this piece and good old PB charges $1,000… That’s without tax and shipping.  Wow…  That’s even hard to write.

Finally, I am so excited about tomorrow’s giveaway we have lined up!!  I can’t wait to share this product with you guys.  You will LOVE them.

I am off to tend to the 73 loads of laundry I have been hiding from for the last few days.  Don’t be jealous.

~Whitney