Carter's Room

We finished getting everything hung up on the walls in Carter's room today. We're finally done with it. I still would like to get him a little table and chairs and hang up some bulletin boards in the dormer area to dislay artwork, but that can wait for now.

Before we moved Carter to his new room, we used it as an extra room for everything that didn't go somewhere else. We have a guest bedroom so this was our second guest bedroom with a futon. We kept a lot of our books and my camera equipment in this room. It wasn't very full or decorated because we had never gotten around to it.

Here are some pictures of what the room used to look like ...




One of my projects for Carter's room was painting three canvases to hang over the crib that match the elephant crib sheet. I used leftover paint from the stripes we painted on the walls to paint the canvases. They look homemade, but I'm really happy with how they turned out considering I have absolutely no artistic ability.



We got Carter a little chair about a month ago. My intention is for this to be Carter's reading corner.



I made this picture in Photoshop with all of Carter's birth statistics. I'm not very creative and can't take credit for the design. I got the idea from someone that sells something similar online.


I split our books between Carter's bookshelf, the nursery bookshelf, and a basket downstairs. It looks so empty now!


Carter's handprint and footprint from when he was 6 weeks old ...


The corner next to the crib ...




The corner next to the bathroom door ...




We keep most of Carter's toys that are in his room in the dormer. I haven't figured out the best storage/organization solution for this area yet, but this works for what we have out right now. I keep some of Carter's toys in his closet and a lot of them are downstairs. I try to switch them around every few weeks to make them seem new again.


Here are some pictures showing larger sections of the room ...