My daughter’s room is furnished with wood furniture

My daughter’s room is furnished with wood furniture. It is not a set, but it all goes together pretty well.

Her crib is from Child craft and her dresser is from Sauder, but the rest of her furniture is either handmade or antique.

We were very lucky that we didn’t have to buy much of her furniture, only the dresser and a few accent pieces. Family gave us the rest of her furniture.

The crib came from my sister-in-law. She used it for both of her boys and had taken excellent care of it.

My Dad made the changing table and drove it up from Houston in pieces. He put it together while he and my Mom were staying at our house after the baby was born. They had two days after they got here and before I came home from the hospital.

The rocking chair in my daughter’s room is the same one my Dad used when I was a baby. My husband and I had it refinished to match the rest of the furniture.

The funny part of that is that we could have bought two brand new rockers for what we paid to have the old one refinished. Read more »

I purchased a regular crib and other kids furniture at the local super center

When my daughter was born in 2004 I purchased a regular crib at the local super center. It was just a pine color crib, made by Graco, and it was not expensive.

I purchased the matching 5 drawer dresser to go with it. At the same time I also purchased a small rocking chair with small ottoman. This chair was also quite inexpensive, costing us around $100.00 at the time.

You definitely need a rocker when you have a newborn, for feeding, etc. When my daughter turned 3 I decided it was time to buy her a “big girl” bed.

I went to every single furniture store in our town but nothing seemed to be what I wanted for her. What I was looking for was a bed that she could use until her teen years. Good quality and looks were very important to me rather than price.

I casually browsed thru a Pottery Barn catalog while waiting at my pediatrician’s office and I saw a bed that caught my attention. I asked the girl at the desk if I could take the catalog home and she said there wasn’t any problem. So I did.

When I got home I immediately started going thru the furniture section. I saw this bed and that was it for me. It is white, single bed, the headboard and foot board has slates (I do not know how to describe it any better) and then each corner has like a poster with a ball on top. Read more »