Before and During

Because I might never get around to painting the mantel and doors blue as planned, and because I've kind of gotten used to the green, here's what the baby's room looked like:


And here's what it looks like:


Yes, the nursery, like every other room in the house, has a dark, sooty fireplace in it that used to be full of birds until we had the chimneys capped (the hearths are too shallow for burning wood—they were used for coal fires).