A room with many uses

When I walked through this house for the first time, I saw this little blue room, it has the tiniest shared closet with the master bedroom.  Immediately I thought of one day in the future this could be our nursery. I remember feeling the lump that got caught in my throat, and from that moment, I knew that this house would be ours.

These pictures are truly god awful...but awful is better than nothing I think

I picked the sunniest yellow to keep this room neutral, hoping that one day we'd fill it with a baby

 

But in the meantime I put all of our painted hand me downs in the room, and tried to make it like a little office.

In truth it was a very sunny room, and the furniture was painted fun colors, but it didn't get used for much.

And then we got pregnant, and I wanted to make this room more special. We added the picture frame molding and the grey paint to the bottom of the room. And we added all the baby stuff.

 I loved sitting on this green rocker, all big in the belly, thinking about what "she" would be like. Wondering what I would be like as a mama. And promising that all I ever wanted for her was happiness.

I'm so happy to have those memories. I talked here about how we should plan for now. And I take my own advice.  We moved Kennedy to the bigger bedroom because this house isn't huge, and we wanted to use the space while we have it.

So we moved bedrooms, so did she...and I had this little room to make my own.

As much as I actually like this room just the way it is, I spackled some nail holes when we moved her out. And the paint is a different color, that's so annoying. So I knew that I would have to repaint all the yellow anyway. So I started to think about what I wanted the room to feel like.

What would you like your blog/craft/you room to look like? Do you have a special room?

More on painting tomorrow