The Room

This part is tres exciting, no?

As Frank said, seeing the nursery come together is strangely awesome. Yes, we realize that all this hullabaloo is mostly for us. Our baby surely won't arrive criticizing the decor. We keep joking that Habibi would be content to sleep in a drawer. (Any Simpsons fans know that line???)

I had already painted the walls when we moved in 6 years ago -- waaay back when we thought we'd never want the responsibility of children. This paint job was my 3-day long, arm-breaking masterpiece, done during a time when I was addicted to the Trading Space show on HGTV. (Coincidentally, I recently participated in a day-long meeting with Laurie Smith, the much-loved, red-headed designer from that show. The company I work for is considering working with her on a project, but that's top secret right now so I can't tell you or I'd have to....you know....kill you.)

Where was I? Oh yeah, the walls. They are a faux finished, mottled Tuscan orange. I worked so hard on them and still really like them, so I don't want to re-paint until Habibi has ideas of his/her own. (I can hear it now -- "Mom, I want BLACK walls to go with my new goth look!" "No honey, just because your father and I were goth doesn't mean you can do it. It really wasn't that cool then and it's not cool now. Trust me on this.") But I digress... So we used the Tuscan orange as a jumping point for the color scheme, which is orange and cream, with touches of tan and sage. I really dig it. It's soft, warm and serene, plus it's conveniently unisex!

Here's a link to the organic cotton bedding, which coordinates perfectly. We don't really have an overall motif, but I realized that we're accumulating a few elephant things. I like elephants -- with the trunk up for good luck-- and they had fit well with my original plan to do a Moroccan room (too difficult to find baby stuff and no time to make it myself.)

Although the room is nowhere near finished, I've posted a few sneak peek photos below for your enticement! The adorable, blue ribbon winning painting above the changing table was done by Frank when he was about 4. It was for a state fair contest, and sparked the beginning of his art career. All together now: Awwwww!

Last I heard our dossier is still in the translation process. Our whole life story is currently being turned into Cyrillic, which kinda looks like something you'd see on the master controls of an alien spaceship on an original episode of Star Trek.

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Франк и Реджина
(Frank and Regina)

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