Mountain Themed Nursery Reveal

I can't tell you how wonderful it feels to be able to share these pictures with you, finally! This room has been in our heads since 2015, when we returned from our honeymoon in the Canadian Rockies and knew that we wanted our future child's nursery to be mountain themed. Shortly after that, we began trying for a family and as you likely know by now, after beginning the process of IVF, we only just fell pregnant back in 2019 and are expecting our little bundle of joy any day now! (More on that in this post)

So, we've had tonnes of fun planning out exactly how we wanted this space to look, and getting started on converting our spare room into this beautiful, calm space fit for our little man. Not to mention picking up all the decor and accessories over the past six months! A couple of bits we've actually had nestled away for the past 4 years, when we found them in the sale in a shop in Brighton and fell in love with them instantly - I remember thinking then it felt like a bit of a jinx getting stuff so early on and maybe it kinda was!?
Originally, this room was Paul's bedroom back when he lived with his best friend - and at the time it was a bit of a mod shrine, hence the giant target on the wall. Once his friend moved out and I moved in, and we both moved into the big bedroom together - this room became the spare bedroom / dumping ground, as so many spare rooms do! It served us well over the years for the occasional guest, but other than that was a fairly useless space for us.
Once we'd got the mountains drawn out, we got them masked up and began to paint - and it became almost an obsession because we were just so excited to see it all come together! 

So you can imagine how lovely it's been, after years of dreaming about it, to turn this space into the nursery that we'd always hoped we would one day need.
I love this photo of me - yes I'm in painting scruffs that don't fit over my bump, unwashed hair and no make up but I can remember so clearly just how wonderfully content I was in that moment. With both Christmas and redecorating the hallway (I'll save that one for another time!) we got to January and still hadn't started on the nursery - and being due in February this was making me a bit anxious... So to have a weekend where we were finally able to start on it together just felt so special.

Of course Paul knocked it outta the park again - I knew exactly how I wanted the mountains to look, but couldn't find any photos that we could replicate - I tried to explain it to him and hoped we could get somewhere near what I was thinking. Somehow it was as though he was tracing them right out of my brain - he absolutely smashed what I'd been wanting to achieve and made it look even better than I could have hoped for! (Which is exactly how my tattoo design came about - I tried for months to get the design right and couldn't quite get there - he sat down, did one sketch and produced the very thing I'd been picturing that I couldn't get down onto paper!)

Oh my, was that an exciting evening - we were up until gone midnight building the furniture because we just couldn't wait any longer and wanted to see it start to take shape as a nursery.
And then with a few hooks added to the walls, a few holes drilled for shelves and a deep clean - our spare room was finally, finally a nursery...










Products featured are: Paint Colours - Grey Steel 1, 2, 3 & 4 by Dulux Cot - John Lewis Chest of Drawers & Shelves- Ikea Armchair - Homesense Side Table - Homebase Faux Fur Rug & Underbed Storage Trunks - Dunelm Bear Rug, Book Ends, Bear Nightlight, Hedgehog Rattle, Fabric Wall Hanging & Bear Blackboard - Sass & Belle Animal Prints & Mobile - Etsy  Raccoon Nightlight - The Range Mountain Changing Mat - The Gilded Bird Bear cushion, Wall-mounted Bear Head, Cuddly Bear & Squirrel - H&M