Brayden's Rustic Nursery

When I found out I was having a little boy, I knew I wanted to do a wood accent wall. With that in mind, I had two different ideas of which "theme" to go with.
A deer/hunting theme...

Or a nautical theme...

I decided that before I could commit, We would paint and do the accent wall to get a better feel for the room. First, we painted the walls. I chose a darker beige by Valspar called "Transit pass".

As far as the accent wall goes, there are HUNDREDS of tutorials on Pinterest. I read about 50 different blogs using everything from pallets to scrap wood. I was nervous about that for 2 reason: 1) the rough texture and 2) chemicals. Ultimately I purchased tongue and grove cedar panels from  Home Depot. They had LOTS of variation in the boards which I really liked. I also chose three different stains to use, all by Minwax. 

From top to bottom: Red Mahogany, Provencial and Ipswich Pine. 

All the boards were stained using my preferred method of staining, cheesecloth! When we were getting to the end of our staining project we ended up mixing a few of the stains together to give us some more color variations.

We gave the boards 48 hours to fully dry. We were a bit nervous about the installation because we have crown moulding installed in that room and were really unsure how things would work out. We ended up leaving both the crown and the baseboards in place and began our install working from the bottom up.  Since I was pregnant at the time, my job was to sit on the floor and tell the installers ( my husband and father) the desired length and placements of the boards. Tell people what to do? I had that covered :)

The install went really quickly! The groves fit together well and we used a pin-gun to secure the boards to the wall. I think we knocked out the install in 2-3 hours. This is what we were left at the end of the day. 

Doing the accent wall made my theme decision easy...we went with a deer theme. The crib and dresser were actually purchased from a garage sale group for $300. The Monogram over the crib was purchased from this shop on Etsy. 

              I did paint the dresser sides and switch out the knobs with "deer antler knobs".

Overall, we are really happy with the space. It is a small room but very functional. The accent wall is by far my favorite element.