allana | Nursery pics, as requested

Here is the cotbed. It's in our bedroom rather than the nursery as Speck will share our room for the first (exhausting) six months. We're off sheet shopping tomorrow :)

The wardrobe. I'm not sure Speck will ever find Narnia inside the wardrobe but it's plenty big enough for him to play hide and seek in. The blue thing on the floor to the left is a baby activity centre that some friends passed on to us. It has loads of fun things to bash and explore but takes up an awful lot of floor space.

Surprisingly enough: the changing unit/chest of drawers. The rail around the top is removable when we're eventually done with nappies.

Dave put that lot together in four hours or thereabouts which was incredibly quick in my opinion. Isn't he fab?

I'm really surprised by the quality, actually. It doesn't feel like flat-pack furniture at all. The drawers run smoothly, the wardrobe closes perfectly, the cotbed is sturdy yet elegant. It's a big relief as I wasn't able to look at this set in a shop; mail/internet order only. (I have to say that it's going to be hard to get used to having less room in the bedroom, especially for early morning stumbling to the loo. I may actually have to open my eyes!)