Hear Ye Hear Ye: We Finally Started on the Nursery

Happy Monday. I know many of you are going to enjoy this Monday because you may have a holiday. If you do I hope you enjoy it but if not well then I hope your work day is pleasant.

Jose and I finally started on the nursery this weekend. As usual our thoughts of this will only take about a day are quickly turning into well I guess we will finish this next weekend. (In other words no one is allowed in our home but us for the next week because it looks like an episode of hoarders.)

Back in December I posted the mood board for the nursery so you could see our inspiration and where we are headed. Right now it is difficult to see the final picture but we at least did get the walls primed (I am painting them Wednesday) and the ceiling halfway done. The ceiling is one thing we did not share with you on the mood board. Mostly because I did not think it would convey very well. Well now I am happy to show you the wood plank ceiling that we have been tirelessly working on for the past three days. 

This is what we found when we removed the molding around the room. 

The room after one coat of primer and the ceiling halfway finished.

Isn't it gorgeous! I mean I cannot wait until it is done and our baby boy will have such a gorgeous and non traditional ceiling to stare up at. We plan to stain the ceiling but we are not sure what color yet. We do not want anything too dark but we don't want it to  look like we tried to match the floors either.  I am hoping to have time in the next couple of weeks to pick out a stain. Once the ceiling is completely finished I will write up a quick how we did it post but for now I hope you guys enjoy the progress shots.

Have you ever undertaken a home project that took much longer than anticipated? Or has your house ever looked like they could film hoarders in it? I would love to hear about it!