Interiors // Nursery

Top tip: do not leave it until you are over 30 weeks pregnant and it's the middle of summer to decorate your nursery. If I talk about decorating the nursery plenty of people point out that the baby won't be sleeping in there for the first six months so there's plenty of time. However, I'm well aware that in that six months I'm sort of going to be busy looking after a baby so I'd much rather get it done beforehand!

I made a nursery Pinterest board as soon as I found out I was pregnant; I knew I wanted greens and I knew I wanted some sort of big mural on the wall. Said mural started off hugely ambitious (a massive hand drawn forest featuring lots of different rolling hills in the background in varying shades of green) and ended up being scaled down a little, both to make it actually doable and also look a little more like a nursery! Sometimes simpler is better (and certainly much easier).

We hadn't done anything to this room since moving into our house last August so it was still the horrible grey purple colour the last people painted it (no offence if this is your kinda colour, it's just not mine). It was also stuffed full of boxes we hadn't unpacked yet so there was a fair amount of sorting to be done before we were even at the point of beginning to decorate!

We've gone for off white walls with one sage green feature wall and then a feature mural wall opposite that. I love that we were able to do it sage green, but that having the white in there too really lifts it and keeps it nice and bright for a baby's room.

The mural was an idea born from lots of Pinterest murals merged together; I basically took my favourite parts of lots of different ones! The big green mountains are the same colour as the feature wall, then the smaller blue mountains were supposed to be a paler green (and are according to the tester pot we picked up) but came out a completely different colour which we decided to stick with because we actually didn't mind it! We ran out of off white paint with just a few touch ups to do on the mural background so ended up adding in the beige mountains as extras just to cover up some bits that weren't quite done, but it ended up being a very happy mistake I think!

We drew the mural out in pencil using a plank of wood as a ruler and a dinner plate for the sun, then freehanded (if that is a word, which a little red squiggle tells me it's not) the trees and the birds. I painted freehand because I was too scared to put tape over fresh lining paper and paint because it always ends up ripping bits off in my experience! 

The mural actually came out way better than I thought it would and I'm so chuffed with it; the baby had better appreciate it! The whole room has such a calm feeling to it and I'm so glad we did do it beforehand because I'll be chilling out in there a lot with the baby just because it's such a nice space to be in. 

I could bore you silly with all the little details, but I'll leave the pictures to do the talking and just leave a comment or message if you want to know where anything is from!