Project Baby Room: It has begun...

The room we once called "The sunny room" has begun its transformation into "The baby's room". Armed with a lot of paint, brushes, newspaper and masking tape, Trevor and I tackled the first coat of paint on the walls.

Thankfully, there wasn't much furniture in the room so moving everything out was a quick job. We packed up the bedding and curtains before Trevor got to work laying down masking tape. Of course, our resident supervisors were on hand to ensure everything was done correctly.

"Hey big guy, whatcha doing?" 

"Lady, we're trying to work here."

 Unfortunately, the supervising staff succumbed to the monotony of the job and eventually fell asleep...

Because Rhapsody is magically drawn towards wet paint, we decided to just let her sleep and carry on painting until we had to tackle the wall she was blocking. She wasn't particularly impressed when she was woken up and sent out into the yard.

Anyway, please don't think that just because I'm the pregnant one I did nothing but take photos. Trevor is 6ft tall whereas I'm much, much closer to the ground so, I do all the painting in the corners and above the skirting.

With all the edges and corners painted, Trev did the first coat and is one of few people I know who paints ambidextrously.

I'm not sure if painting with both his left and right hand makes the work go twice as fast but he was pretty tired afterwards. So, I whipped up a treat he's been requesting for almost a month: A huge steaming pile of flapjacks with maple syrup :-)

There's no going back now. While I was painting it occurred to me that we were painting our child's room. Like, hello, it's OUR CHILD'S ROOM - crazy! It's all becoming very, very real. As much fun as it is to play interior decorator, the fact that the space is for a new member of our family is always front and center. We've been excited about our kiddo from day one but this project feels like our first big step into parenthood and, honestly, we couldn't be happier.