Grayson's Nursery

We decided to do gray and white with orange accents for Grayson's nursery.  My Dad's favorite color was orange and since we are honoring my Dad by giving Grayson his middle name we thought it was only fitting to use his favorite color for the nursery.  It breaks my heart to think that Grayson will never know my Dad, but I know my Dad is watching over all of us and will know his grandson.  I'm very thankful I videotaped my Mom and Dad reading children's books a few years ago for my nephew Tommy so now I have those to show to Grayson.  

I looked on pinterest and found some great ideas for his nursery so I can't say I came up with this on my own, but borrowed ideas from other creative people. :)

We decided to do one wall with gray and white stripes, the other wall will have the collage of pictures in orange, gray and white, with a safari animal theme and some gray and white chevron patterns as well.  My brother Bryan and his girlfriend Lauren made an orange, gray and white animal safari mobile  for the nursery (originally found it on Etsy and they recreated it).

Here are the pictures and step by step of what we did:

We had the painter paint one wall with gray and white stripes.

Here is the glider we got from Buy Buy Baby

 We wanted to do a collage in his room with orange, gray and white, but had a hard time finding frames in gray and orange so we went to Hobby Lobby and got a little creative.  Craig found several different sizes of frames and bought orange and gray spray paint so we could make them work for the room.

I bought these prints online (borrowed idea from Pinterest) and bought the frames at CB2

Craig spray painting the frames

Craig hanging up the pictures

My Mom bought this safari night light

Here is the finished collage:

 We bought the white elephant and giraffe at Anthropologie (Allison's idea)

We bought the letter G at Land of Nod (Amanda's idea)

The other frames and crown were from Hobby Lobby

Craig bought a big white piece of paper and traced the frames on it so it was easier to put them on the wall - good idea!

Christy got me the adorable orange minky blanket with Grayson's name and the other side is gray and white chevron - such a cute gift!!!!

I ordered the pillow cases from easy and bought a white pillow at JoAnn's

Close-up of some of the frames 

My mom bought these cute safari animals at Rural King

I bought the orange and white chevron wipe cover from Etsy and found the diaper caddy at Home Goods.  The diaper changer is from a cute store called Giggle in Lincoln Park.  I love it because it does not require a cover and very easy to clean and matches his room.

I bought paper and stickers at Michaels and made these

Gray and white chevron valances I bought online

I bought the wooden letter from Etsy

Craig hanging up the curtains

Safari mobile Bryan and Lauren made for his nursery

They did such a great job and I was so excited with the way it turned out

Socks, shoes, hats and pacifiers

I found these cute organizers at The Container Store to put in his drawers for the above items

Craig hanging up the mobile 

Hanging up the monitor

He tested out the video screen and thought it was pretty neat

West side of the room

You can see the adorable diaper cake that my client and friend Barb had made for me (bottom right side next to the crib)

East and south side of room

East wall

South side