We did a bit of updating to August's room this past weekend. In our first effort to transition the space from a baby room towards a toddler room, we removed the lounge chair, ottoman, and side table, and replaced them with a height chart, book shelves, and an Augie sized reading chair. It has been a while since August has let us rock him to sleep, so we figured it was time to make more room for actual playing in his nursery.
The leopard print lantern was left in place from when the space was originally used for sitting. I thrifted the miniature school chair along with two other school chairs a few weeks ago from a local consignment store. I found this amazing growth chart several months ago, but didn't quite have the $120 in the budget to purchase it. So Kevin and I decided to just create our own, much more simplified height chart out of a pre-cut 1x6 piece of pine. We then purchased the spice racks and rug from Ikea a couple of weeks ago. The spice racks as bookshelves idea is not unique to us, as I've found numerous examples in the blogosphere that gave us the idea. It's a perfectly genius, affordable way for us to display the non-board books that our over-eager page turner does not have access to on a daily basis.
All in all we are quite pleased with how the tiny space turned out. Hopefully this is one step closer to using his room much more frequently as a space to play and to enjoy. As for August, he seems to be a fan as every time we are in the room, he holds his chubby little hand up for us to grab one of the books down for him.
This is lovely! The colors are wonderful.
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