Extreme Makeover: Nursery Edition Part I

Setting up the nursery is one of the really fun exciting things most people look forward to. I was really excited about this also, but a little hesitant.

You see, we have a 3-bedroom house. Our room, Pumpkin's room, and the "guest" room, or better known as the catch all. Our house doesn't have much in the way of storage space. We have the closets in the rooms, a closet that holds our hot water heater, and a coat closet, that is pretty small. We also have a laundry room, but it holds our washer and dryer, and a couple other random things. That's about it. I like to try to give M the garage for his stuff, since he does work on a lot of things out there. The crawl space has just dirt flooring, and no shelves, so its hard to put things down there, especially when we get a lot of moisture and it turns the dirt into mud (which happened last spring, ugh). Also, I won't go down into the crawl space because of the possibilities of spiders, so it isn't a great place for me to store things.  So, the guest room turns into the catch all.

Have something that you don't know where to put it? The guest room. You use something every 6 months and don't want to have to go down into the crawl space to get it? The guest room. Don't feel like actually putting that away where it belongs? The guest room. So, it didn't take long and our guest room looked like this:

Looking straight in from the door, under the window

Diagonally right from the door

Immediate right from door

Left-ish from door

Yep, its a mess. I was actually pretty lucky to get the door open all the way! And now you see why I was hesitant to start the nursery! What was I going to do with all this crap stuff?! The reason it was in this room in the first place was because we didn't know what to do with it already. It overwhelmed me. And was so much easier to just close the door and pretend it wasn't there. 

But I couldn't do that, or Peanut wouldn't have a room. Not that she will spend much time in there in the beginning anyways, but its just something you have to do. So, I enlisted the help of K, and we got to work. We were able to throw a lot of the stuff away. The big things, like the extra stroller, TV and stuff, went into the garage for M to deal with. We got the bed taken down, and friend N & B took it. Another friend took the dresser for her brother's kid. The clothes got given back to who they belonged to, the bows put in our room under the bed in our closet. The set of drums broke down and got stored in our coat closet. I left the desk thing under the window, and the little set of drawers with the lamp stayed also. It was amazing how much we got done, and how good it looked! I could actually see the floor!!!

Did you have a room that was easily turned into a nursery? Or was the room you were going to use a catch all like ours?