Wait, I'm due in August? I must have thought it was April because...

...the baby room is one step closer to being done.


While perusing blogs, I came across this color palette. It is pretty close to our baby room palette except for the dark teal color in the middle, which is not a part of it.

Speaking of color palettes, last night, I came home to find a package from fabric.com. My curtain material had arrived!!!! It was like there was a huge mountain dew in that box - I all of a sudden had more energy than I have had since January. My brother-in-law is on spring break so he came over to play Wii Mario with my husband. He sort of (ok, he did) make fun of us for basically having the baby room done. [It is a little ridiculous because I got really excited after th rug and washed a crib sheet and crib skirt and put them on the crib. Literally, th baby could come any day. Good thing I am finally starting to look pregnant!] I opened the box and got started on the curtains ASAP. That baby is coming...the curtains HAVE to get done, ha ha ha.

First off, I must say that like all of her other fabrics, the Amy Butler home decor weight fabrics are luxe. They are the perfect curtain material. Everyone, even my poking fun BIL, liked the pattern/color of them as well. I definitely would purchase this fabric again.

I decided to make short curtains for the room. There are 8 rooms in our house, not counting bathrooms or the basement. Five of them have almost the exact type of curtain - long floor to ceiling type. It was time to break out of the rut. Beyond aesthetics, the heat vent for the baby room is directly under a window and long curtains would block it. Also, when the baby gets to the motion stage, I don't exactly want him/her pulling on the curtains or trying to climb them.

I also wanted to give curtain rings a try after reading this post at Young House Love. If you want a no-sew variety of curtain, I highly suggest their method. Their baby room curtains are stellar. We bought four packs of nickel curtain rings at Lowe's over the weekend since the curtain rods are also nickel. These were the easiest curtains to make ever. I basically cut two panels, double hemmed all four sides and clipped the rings on and slid them on the rod. I think this took me an hour tops for one window. I still have one window to go.

I love the end result! The tangerine orange looks great next to the blue/grey wall and gives the room a nice burst of color. Pictures...you'll just have to wait!