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IT IS FINISHED!!!

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So after 6, maybe even 7 months, the nursery is finally done. Yes, that's right. Half a year to finish the smallest room in the house. Yikes. But come, take my hand and I will walk you through this modest room's magical 'restoration'. (OK...I wish it was magical...it was really just lots and lots of tedious work) For reference, here is a floorplan of the nursery.* *Legal Disclaimer - This was created in Microsoft paint. All measurements and scales are approximate. We'll start with the walls. Here is a picture of the room before we touched it. Wallpaper, and painted wallpaper on the ceiling. Yay. It was actually a lot of fun removing the various layers of wallpaper and seeing all the different patterns they had used over the last 126 years. Some of them I really liked. What was also nice is that this stuff was SO much easier to remove than the stuff in the parlor. Not nearly so many layers of paint to contend with (Just one layer of Pepto-bismal pink paint (which wa