Nursery News, post #1

Naturally from the minute I became pregnant I've been thinking about the nursery. Color scheme, theme, what to buy, what to make, everything! I have scoured many blogs looking for inspiration and eventually decided a while back to go with a nautical theme.  The Scarff family has always had a nautical feel to them which I'm assuming comes from their love for their beach house on Pearl Island in the San Juans. Parker's grandparents built it back in the 70's and all of his siblings and cousins have been going there every summer since they were born. It seems to hold a special place in all of there hearts so it felt right for Hudson to start off early.

I'd been gathering bits and pieces over the past few months. I got this cool navy blue fabric with white rope and knots on it from Joann fabric to cover an old chair that my grandparents gave to my mom and eventually to me. I'm so happy it gets to be in Hudsons room! All my cousins and I loved sitting with grandma and grandpa in those chairs. It was my first attempt at reupholstering and for having a big old 9 month pregnant belly I don't think it turned out too shabby!

Here is a photo of my cousins grandma and I in the big comfy blue chair! 

 Here is some of my progress on it and the final product!

So back to my color scheme. I really like yellow. its just a happy color. and yellow and navy happen to go really well together... So with that I was definitely liking the idea of light gray accent wall with almost white with a tint of gray for the other walls and bright white baseboards. We ended up going with painter's white from behr premium selections and sharkey gray by Martha Stewart for the accent wall. I'm really happy with how it turned out. it's really subtle but adds alot.

So now I for sure had gray, navy blue, a goldeny yellow and white in my color scheme. I really like this combo but for a little boys room it felt like it was missing something... so I found this awesome website called colorlovours.com that let me creat a color palette and picked out the colors I already had, then played around with different shades of blue until I found something I really liked that I also thought would go well with my more contemporary nautical theme. this is what i ended up with:

I think the teals bring it together
really well and give it that pop that it needs to feel a bit warmer. In the palette below the colors left to right are: Wall borders (which isn't visible as its bright white), main wall color, accent wall color, crib color and the brown will be added in as curtains and accents around the room.

To be continued..