Furniture!

Yesterday we went furniture shopping! Tripp discovered "the largest specialty baby store in the southeast" last week so we just had to check it out! Georgia Baby and Kids is about an hour away from Athens, just outside Atlanta in Norcross, Georgia. And they definitely had a LARGE selection. They carry some of the harder to find furniture brands and some designer baby bedding, like NAVA Designs, a company that sells they're stuff for over $1,000! HOLY COW! Anyway, we shopped around online and in a few stores and found that we really liked the quality and longevity of Stanley Furniture's line of nursery and youth furniture called Young America, and when we found out Georgia Baby was selling theirs for 45% OFF we new if we liked what we saw we'd be getting it from them. And we did. We looked through the entire store multiple times and kept coming back to the 4 Seasons Serenity Collection in a Cinnamon finish. We ordered two pieces at 45% off retail (no shipping) and bought two pieces off the showroom floor at 55% off retail, so we're very happy with what we got for the money.

This is the crib we bought (without the drawer on the bottom). We purchased the conversion kit as well, so we will be able to turn the crib into a full-size bed as the baby grows.

This is the dresser/changer. We did not buy the $200 changing station that holds the changing pad; we'll just lay the pad on top and secure it from behind.

This is the dresser/chest.

This is the nightstand.

The crib and dresser/changer will be delivered to the store in 3-4 weeks (maybe sooner) but the other two pieces are in the baby's room already! I will post updated nursery pictures soon - it's raining and dark today so I'm afraid they wouldn't come out very well.

The thing that we really like about Young America is that they sell so many more pieces than just the crib and dresser suites you see with many baby furniture companies. We will be able to expand the collection in the future if necessary to include a desk or bookcases or who knows what. Plus, it's very high quality furniture (and the chest is even made in the USA!) so we know it will last a long time. Like, forever, if we're lucky! We even found the collection we'd like to get if our next child is a girl, if you'd like to have a look. Overall it was an exciting day and we can't wait to get the crib set up and fill it with cute baby bedding and someday even a BABY!