Baby Hill’s Home is Ready! | Aharon Hill Photography

For any clients and friends out there with whom I have had any contact for the past 9 months, there is one thing you know for sure about me: I am with child!

Yep, the Hill babies like to make themselves known early on. I was showing at 10 weeks with both pregnancies… so you can imagine what my belly looks like at 39+ weeks.

Hint: not dainty.

So how have I been keeping myself busy during these months? Well, if you scroll back through my blog posts since June 2012, you will see that there has hardly been any downtime; in fact, it seemed that my work load actually ramped up at the beginning of my third trimester.

So that explains why Baby Hill #2’s room was backburnered until December, when my husband and I finally started clearing out the remnants of the old guest bedroom, cleaning out the closet, etc., to make a clean slate for the nursery.

Sadly, even after we cleared out the room, it remained a “clean slate” until literally 2 weeks ago when it started to come together. Thank goodness that we didn’t have any surprises, or else the little guy would not have had a place to sleep (I hear that procrastination is common with second kids– sadly I am not the supermom exception to this rule!)!

Because this will be our second child, we tried to use what we had, where we could, while still giving baby #2 a unique nursery. With that in mind, we repurposed most of the furniture from the first nursery (with the exception of the armoire, which was a fabulous hand-me-down from my grandmother!), but just changed the colors and decorative elements.

I commissioned the acrylic painting from fabulous artist, Lindsey (Turberville) Luepke, and had the drapes custom made… but those were my splurges. Everything else was store-bought, and in some instances, spray painted to suit by me (And YES, I was wearing a respirator, eye mask and latex gloves for painting projects!!).

Also, lessons from my first child guided many of my decorating decisions. For instance, we have all heard that bumpers are controversial, but I thought that they added so much cuteness to the nursery that I had some custom made last time. Though we didn’t have any issues with crib safety, it took almost no time for them to get crumpled and make the investment seem pointless… so we opted for a fun crib sheet this time instead 🙂

Finally, though I didn’t get to theme-y with the room, I did include golden retrievers (including pictures of our very own golden, Wilson) several times in the room. It was lots of fun dressing him up in ties for his special display above the changing table.

I hope to be rocking a new baby to sleep in this room very, very soon.