Clearly Nesting

Welp, here's a post for the second day in a row, and hopefully there'll be a weekly update tomorrow morning which is some kind of record. 

Clearly, I'm nesting. Today we bought a gallon of paint, I painted almost all of the trim in the room, and we attempted to plug the holes in the guest nightstand and drill new ones to fit the handles I bought for it like 2+ years ago. I say "attempted" because... We're apparently pretty useless in the handyman DIY realm. We bought the wrong kind of putty, maybe, and then we broke multiple drill bits tryin the make new holes, and the whole thing turned into a much longer and complicated ordeal than we'd banked on. But, it's mostly done and it's definitely not perfect but it's got character. Or something. Here are some photos, I'll add a finished product one when I eventually finish it (I think it just needs a little paint?).

Here are our plugged holes:

Next, I had this brilliant idea to mark where the new holes needed to go with charcoal:

But that didn't work so well. Oh well. Then we broke not one, but two drill bits:

And that's when E went all MacGyver on it. You can see the first handle installed in the background. It's a little crooked but the bottom one is much better and I think I'm the only person who'll ever notice. 

I can't remember if I posted this last night, but we built the crib!! Here is is in progress: 

E was super excited and cute the whole time. :) I was a stress ball and probably incredibly unpleasant. But I maybe made up for it a little by making a bunch of painting progress tonight while E isn't home! I painted all of the trim and edging all around the room. Well, around like 85% of the room because I couldn't move the trundle bed by myself. But whatever, here's the progress shot:

Maybe I'll actually get you some finished product shots soon! For now, I'm pooped. 

Furbishing!!!

We have the nursery paint color picked!! Finally! 4.5 weeks from our due date! Haha.... Whoops. 

These were the three we eventually narrowed it down to:

Here are the samples painted on the wall:

Please excuse the cruddy photo quality!!! In the end we're going with Misted Green by Benjamin Moore. Whew! Quiet Moments was too light and I was really pulling for Beach Glass but in some lights durin the day it's just a little too baby blue and I was really trying to avoid any baby-like colors. And definitely not baby blue bc I want this room to be gender neutral. I've never been much of a pink fan, so we always knew if we had a daughter there wouldn't be a pink-overload nursery or anything. I think this'll work for either gender (we know what we're having but are leaving room for surprises and hopefully future children!).

Feels good to have this decision made. Tonight we're setting up the crib(!!!) and we also just placed the hanging pad on the desk. With a little box of diapers and diaper cream, etc next to it. Crazy!! This is getting real... 

"Hello (Decor), My Old Friend....

...I've come to talk (and plan) with you again."

Welp, here we are again....

(Heads up: The color in this iPhone pic is super inaccurate. For reference, the current wall color is Benjamin Moore's Stone 2112-40.)

Normally I'd be thankful that E rarely goes into this room except to use the printer, but we have a guest coming to stay with us this weekend so he'll probably be in there helping me get the space guest-ready (we have two bedrooms, so the guest room is going to convert to nursery duty, but we'll keep the trundle bed in there... But right now it's sort of been a storage room since before Passover. Whoops!). Wish me luck with his reaction. ;)

Ps have you seen this?