Welcome! Pumpkin's bedroom

Welcome to our house!

As we are welcoming december, we are finishing to open boxes and make this new house our home. It has been a very exciting project, not to say the least. Moving at a month's notice with 3 young children, is definetly a challenge. But here we finally are, just in time to celebrate our first Christmas here.

Setting this house up has been a very cleansing process for me. It allowed me to get rid of old stuff, of clutter, of old habits (or at least trying to ) and embrace a new way, new look, new feel in our home. We were longing, in our other house, to have a very simple, unclutted home. I felt like we never managed to, I don't know why. Maybe we were not ready to part with everything we needed to let go in order to really acheive what we were hoping for. But this new energy we had (needed...) to move really made us look beyond stuff, and helped us realized what we wanted. A minimalist type of house. As of today, we have less then 10 boxes to unpack, and only one room to finish up. But as I look around, I can see this is an unfinished project. We still have to infuse US in here. Not just placing our stuff in convinient places, but really make it ours by making, creating, arranging, and living in it, and that is long term project :)

So let the tour begin

Today, I show you my new baby boy's room. Why this room first? Because I was not able to prepare while being pregnant, since our old house didn't have enough room to allow him one, so guess which room I felt like settling first. I guess I had some nesting hormones still raging inside me.



I set this room up with our goal of minimalism and simplicity in mind.

Now keep in mind, it really *IS* at it's simpliest expression right now. There are nothing on the walls *yet*, and have very few things since Pumpkin is still sleeping with us. But with a little time, I should be able to complete all the projects I have for this room.



the colors of the wall are really hard to catch properly, and since there is almost a snow storm outside (sigh) I don't have much light to work with. We used Benjamin Moore Natura paint, which is a low VOC paint in a blue grayish color. I wasn't sure how it would turn out on the walls, but I love it. It is a very relaxing color.



Although this house is not really old, it was built at the begining of 2000, and has a modern look to it, we used many of our vintage piece of furnishing, and I really love the effect of the new contrasting with the old. I feel like it give a little bit of life to this house that has not seen that many years yet.



And of course, we kept some of rituals too!



this has protected each of my babes while they were newborns.

but also added new ones:



I love this mobile, this fresh and crisp white color against the blue of the wall. I love how it moves, and most of all how it makes Pumkin coos everytime he sees it.

I still have to add the wall art (something I am about to make), add some linen to the window, and add a basket of carefully chosen toys for him to play with. Unfortunatly, he will not longer be able to use his bassinet really soon as he is way too god at turning over already (!!!) and so a floor bed is about to take the spot under the butterflies.

Happy St- Nic's day!