Girly Girl

So, as many of you may know, we found out yesterday that our baby boy is actually a baby girl! If that damned sonographer hadn't told us it was a boy weeks ago, I swear we wouldn't have been so brain washed. We are equally happy (just shocked) that we will be welcoming another little joy into the world. As you may have noticed, I obsess about rooms for months, and then want to change everything at the same time dramatically.
Well, this can't happen overnight since my office will be turned into the baby's room, and will require some major boxing and hauling. The previous think tank for Fold Invites will likely never be seen again in this house. Storage unit?

We have floor to ceiling shelves in the room now, which I was praying we could keep but they just take up too much room in the tiny space. We will also need to remove the sawgrass wallpaper we labored over and spent hours finding and putting up. The shelves are bolted into the wallpaper, so no matter what it would be ruined. The walls are also a lime green. The whole lime green, pink, brown thing really suited me and the caos that is my office. However, we are going to pack up, de-wallpaper (Frank and Di colunteered--hee), and re-paint. In a frenzy before the infamous Good Shepherd Sip and Shop (where I slaved for days to put a table up to sell cool stuff for the holidays and ended with me drunk watching all the wretched burned out blond housewives buy fake leather purses and Ed Hardy imitations tees instead), I sprayed spray mount in my portfolio in a pinch to adhere invitations into the book, and accidentally got it all over the hardwood floor. In my laziness, I never attempted to clean it up, so it's still weird and sticky, and may require expert opinions as to how to remove the residue prior to our bundle laying and sticking and breathing its fumes for years to come.

In an effort to shift gears to a possible girl room, I remembered that I had a cut-out of Cheree Berry's (one of my personal heros) wedding invitation suite which used light blue and red. We had tossed around hot pink or even just cream/brown/pink so I could keep Lyla's old crib bedding. However, trying to just match the bedding was really inhibiting us, so it will have to be sold on Ebay. Plus, I have seen way too much of the pink and brown deal to last a lifetime, so it's time to shake it up.

So, the suite was really the inspiration for what I'm currently thinking might be the new color palette. I typically hate light blue on walls, but I've been seeing a lot of cool takes on it lately, and I think the punch of red and a deep brown to anchor the space will make it fresh and modern.

Here is my inspiration board for the whole thing. Many of the pieces, like the ab-fab Jonathan Adler mini sofa (it's the kid-sized version of his famous Lambert sofa) probably won't fit, and the mod red dresser will likely be the dresser we currently have in our bedroom (that Trent refers to as a child dresser anyway) will likely be painted red and used for storing stuff.

The one thing missing is a changing table option. We used an antique dresser for Lyla that was perfect, but I love it in her room now (Lyla's room is my favorite room in the house), and I don't want to get a replacement for her. So, I'm still on the hunt for something fitting both in size and feel. There are some very good options now, because god knows I won't be getting one of those dork ones that looks like it came from someone's colonial set. See right.

My Mom suggested yellow this morning and I poo pooed it, but if I did it a darker light gray, with a lighter gray on the ceiling, threw up some crown molding and accented the whole thing with a nice warm yellow like this scheme, I could work it out. This nice yellow is harder to find though, but I may ponder it. It's much less likely to go too Willie Wonka than the other scheme which walks the line, but again, harder to execute (for someone like me who can't wait to find all the right pieces).

I may have to poll this one for the three of you who actually take my polls.