Project Baby’s Room – Week Three (or so): Quilt and Paint Beginnings

I finally finished the bulk of the top of quilt I am working on for the baby’s room. I still need to put on the borders but I am quite liking how it looks so far. It’s incredibly simple and not terribly creative but the fabrics are all sweet and I can always aim to work on something a little more adventurous for when she moves into her big bed in a couple of years time. If this baby does, in fact, end up being a boy this quilt may be just a little too girly — but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.

Please admire this photo I took of the quilt from floor level. Mostly please admire the fact that I got down on the floor to take the photo and then managed to get back up again without calling for help! (it wasn’t pretty).

Something that isn’t going to be too girly is the colour of the bedroom walls. Big-P has been working on the baby’s room over a couple of weekends and it’s looking really lovely – we ended up opting for a Porter’s Paint in a low sheen acrylic (so not totally VOC free, but not too bad none the less) in a colour called Skywriter. P has painted three walls in the colour at 50% strength and there will be one wall which will be at 100% just to give it a bit of interest.

It’s very hard to get a good photo in that room, especially on a gloomy day, but this is a close approximation anyway. It’s nice to look back on some of those inspiration photos I posted a while back and see that we found a colour we liked and were able to pretty much match it (looking at the first blue pic with the bright orange chair). I think ours has a little more red in it, which keeps it warm in a room with not a lot of light.

Next steps: Finish the quilt and painting (including trim and door), fix window frame, whip up some curtains to cover the ugly window frame, continue to sort huge amounts of clothes into various boxes for storage and move in furniture.