When we added the wall of shelving in baby Jack’s nursery last year, I was pretty sure I was in love.

Here’s how the room used to look..This was just a little while after we moved in three years ago.

It doesn’t look too too terrible in this picture, but that’s because I was trying to not make it look too too terrible.The walls were marked up, and half-patched, and the floor was pulled up a bit so we could see the hardwood underneath., I wasn’t really ready to paint the walls yet, but I wanted to paint a little, so I did these boxes of color, which kind of gave the feeling of molding on the walls.

For a little while, then the icky feeling came back because there were still those marked up parts on the walls and the floor was still torn up a bit.I  did a pretty good job of faking it for the pictures though didn’t I?.

I had these (ridiculously easy to make!)

capri curtains and this little rug too, which were OK, but I was over the red.Create, plan, shop and tool up.

– on the right projects you can find it fun to include you child in the preparation.Begin with the creativity as together you brainstorm ideas and feasibility.

Once a design is decided upon, move along with the planning process, do the math, build a materials list and go shopping.Finally, lay out your supplies from the hardware store and line up the tools required.