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I'll see you soon.

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-On this episode of "Baby Makes 3"... We're in the home of Anna and Joe, a young married couple who love the great outdoors and are expecting their first child.

They've decided to wait for the birth of their baby to learn whether it's a boy or a girl.

We're going to take those two themes and create a gender neutral nursery that brings the natural warmth of the outdoors into their home today on "Baby Makes 3."

♪ That moment when you go from couple to family, everything changes.

When you bring the baby home, you want to create a warm, comfortable, and safe environment for them.

Step one -- the nursery.

-I'm Anna.

-And I'm Joe, and we're having our first baby in three weeks.

-We met growing up on the Bouncing Bulldogs, the jump rope -- It's a competitive jump rope team.

-We both competed.

Each of us has won national championships and world championships, as well.

To be honest, we couldn't stand each other growing up.

Ultimately, we ended up dating for something like seven years all through college, and then decided to tie the knot, and we've been married for almost four years now.

-I am definitely most looking forward to just integrating a little baby into our life as it is now, you know?

-I think it's really, for me, feels like the most exciting thing in the world to be able to have our baby.

You know, and to raise our child and bring it into the world.

I think it's really something that will change a lot of things, but at the same time, will be the most meaningful experience of our life.

-Previously on "Baby Makes 3"... We met with our designer Lauren who helped our couple design a warm, nature-inspired gender neutral nursery.

We repainted our nursery-to-be in a soft gray color using no-VOC paint.

Jonathan visited a local sawmill and placed the order for the wood for our accent wall.

Our designer Lauren stopped by and helped our couple pick out a beautiful fabric for the Roman shade.

I met with our refurbisher Emily, who is helping us convert our old dresser into a new changing table.

And then Anna and Joe completed their personalized DIY project for their nursery.

We're off to a great start, but we still have lots to do before this nursery is ready for baby.

-So, Billy, just tell me a little bit about what you're doing and the process of how you actually have gotten to this point.

-So basically, we're going to do an accent wall, and this is pretty simple.

We have our boards, and we have them cut to length and we're going to lay it out the way it's going to look on the wall.

Usually what we do is we measure to 8 foot, which is the height of the wall, and we put our top board and our bottom board and then we fill the boards in between.

-And why might a board be brown versus gray?

Is that just weathering or...?

-Yeah.

So, weathering.

So, a board gets gray because it's exposed to UV and rain, and it will turn gray, and the brown boards are usually interior boards or floorboards.

As you can see, the joist marks, so it most likely was a floorboard.

-So the boards, are they going to be full planks all the way across the length of the room, or are they cut in between?

How does that work?

-So we can do it both ways.

We can do it full length or we can do some cuts and do a little bit more mix and match.

It's just kind of up to you.

-Let's go ahead and maybe put some of this together and pattern it out the way that you would prefer.

-Cool.

-Absolutely.

-So we got our top board here, the 8 foot, and it can go right there.

♪ And then, if you want to, we can mix a gray whenever you're ready.

-Sure.

Yeah, why don't we throw a gray in there?

-Right here?

Okay.

-Thanks.

Cool.

-Hello.

-Hey.

How's it going?

I'm Billy.

-Hey.

I'm Anna.

-Anna, nice to meet you.

-Nice to meet you.

Thanks for helping us out.

-Hey, no problem.

-What's going on here?

-We're laying out the pattern for the wall, and he was wanting to get your opinion about how you actually wanted it to flow, whether or not you wanted more gray boards, brown boards, how you wanted them to be laid out on the wall.

-Okay.

They're pretty boards, but I think I would like them to be cut, just for a little more variety.

-Yeah, and we can definitely mix and match some browns and grays on the same run.

-Yeah.

-It's not going to be a problem.

-Yeah, that'd be great.

So it looks like you guys have some work to do, I guess.

-Great.

Well, we'll go ahead and start cutting these boards into smaller pieces, and then we'll reconvene later.

-Perfect.

All right.

Don't work too hard.

-Yeah, you know me.

So, I see that the trim boards are gone.

Does that mean that we're going to put new trim boards that are from the reclaimed wood?

-We can certainly do that.

We had talked about running a trim board on the bottom and also along on the edges right here and the top in order to basically cover up the wood to where, instead of having a straight line that would take a little bit more time to put things on and make sure you're hitting your studs, it would just cover it up just like trim does.

It's to basically cover up that exposed edge.

-And that'll make it easier to do, then.

-I believe so, yeah.

-Kind of a box frame, then.

-That's correct.

-Cool.

-Now that our accent wall is prepped, Billy begins taking measurements to cut the boards to their correct lengths, alternating between gray and brown boards to really make this accent wall stand out.

♪ -So, basically, what we're doing here, you see these lines on the wall, these mark our studs.

So we've got wood studs behind the sheetrock.

It's important on these joints that we line them up and we butt them square right on a stud because we're nailing brad nails into the studs, and that's what secures our wood to the wall.

-After the accent wall is completed, Jonathan will need to reinstall the electrical outlets.

-What we're doing here is the extra 3/4 inch for this accent wall has now basically caused a problem as far as our electrical outlets not being able to be flush with the wall.

So what we're going to have to do, is, first of all, we have to shut the power off, so we check that with a voltage meter.

It shows green, it's going to be that there's no voltage.

If it's red, that would show that there's some type of voltage that's coming through.

We're also going to check another voltage meter that allows you to show whether or not it's rewired or not.

So we're going to check both of those.

No lights means no power.

Going to check the bottom one, as well, and same thing.

Next thing is, is that we're going to pull the outlet out.

Again, just to make sure, we're going to use our voltage meter again.

We're going to run through these wires, and make sure that this doesn't turn red, doesn't beep.

We're going to be good.

Again, we're green all in this, so we're good to go.

This allows you to get 1 1/3-inch additional box length.

So what we'll do is we'll just angle the outlet, slide it in, straighten it back out.

We'll stick this into the actual box itself.

We'll attach, push everything back in.

And then you'll screw the actual outlet back to the wall, you'll move back and do the same thing to the phone jack.

And once you complete that, you go back, turn the power on, and that's it.

-So, Anna, this is one of our do-it-yourself projects.

It's very easy, very inexpensive.

We both have log rounds, and I bought some chalkboard paint.

So we're going to put two coats of that on here.

We're going to let it dry, and then you can take chalk, you can make designs, you can write words.

So I was thinking we would put these up in the nursery and then when the baby's born, you can put the baby's name on one of these.

And have you picked out names depending on gender?

-We have, yeah.

We just settled on them kind of in the nick of time, I guess.

I mean, it could change, but, you know, we're kind of -- we're waiting to meet the baby to really solidify, but -- -Right.

But you've got ideas in mind.

-Yeah, and then we'll share, but we're really excited.

-That's great.

-I just can't wait to see what it looks like.

-Well, you know, for us, because we adopted, we had three days' notice, and so it was sort of a shock to the system.

-That is wild.

-And do you have in-laws, support in the area?

-We do, yeah.

Yes, we do.

We have -- we're really fortunate in that we have both of our families really close by, yeah, like within 30 minutes.

-That makes a big difference.

Yep.

Okay.

-I think I'm done.

This looks so good.

I'm really excited.

-Isn't that great?

We'll let it dry overnight, and then we'll put it up.

-Perfect.

-So, Joe, we're about to start the project of the Dutch door.

And one of the first things that you want to do before you actually take the door off is that you're actually going to measure where you're going to put your second hinge, because again, we're going to have to have four hinges.

We're going to have two for the bottom support and two for the upper.

So before you take the door off, you definitely want to make sure you mark where your hinges are going to go, so they're actually accurate.

All right.

So go ahead and angle the door back a little bit.

Pick it up, let's move it back.

All right, now come towards me.

And then we're just going to take it out of the room and we're going to go take it to the sawhorses.

-All right.

-While building the Dutch door, we'll need to install a fourth hinge.

To begin, we are removing the old hinges.

And then we will replace them with four new matching ones.

-So we've moved the door into the garage, and now we're actually going to cut it in half.

So, Billy, maybe explain to us a little bit about how that process is going to work.

-Okay.

So basically, we've just got to make a square cut.

We're going to go a little bit, about 1/2 inch above our door mortise.

We're going to clamp it to the table, we're going to tape both sides of the door so it doesn't splinter once we cut through.

It's really important to make sure that when you cut a door like this that you really take some time and make sure that you're going to do it right, 'cause you really only have one shot at this.

-All right, Billy, so you think that you've got the measurement down correctly and we're going to get a nice, straight cut?

-Yeah.

I think so.

-Okay.

Joe, you ready to do this?

-One shot, right?

-All right, Billy, let's see what you got.

[ Saw whirring ] -All right.

Didn't get too much splinter.

Okay, so I guess our next step is to cut our hinges.

Okay, so first thing that we're going to do is we're gonna set our router bit depth and basically just going to check for our depth, going to set my plunge, and there we go.

-So once you're set, now you're going to be able to just move that over here, and it should give you the exact depth and cut that you need for this new door hinge that we're going to be hanging on the bottom part of the door, correct?

-Correct.

-Perfect.

-And that's how you cut out a new door hinge.

-Now that our door is in two pieces and we've cut a fourth door-hinge pocket, we are almost ready to install our new Dutch door.

First, we need to install the new hinges.

-All right, let's go.

-Joe, what Josh was doing is he's dry-fitting the door and making an outline for the new hinge that we're going to install on the door frame now.

-There's a couple of things that are important here.

If you notice that these hinges are the same width all the way down, you just want to match up that width.

So, got it scribed, so we can go ahead and take it down.

Let's go ahead and get it off.

All right, there we go.

-And what Josh was going to do is get his correct measurements with a straight edge.

-So, when we did the door, these hinges here -- Billy showed you how to use a jig and a router, but I'm going to show you an old-school way, probably because it's easier to get in there once the stop is already installed, but also because lots of homeowners don't necessarily have a jig and a router.

So basically, I've got a couple different wood chisels here.

Sharp chisels are better.

And I'm just going to pop the outline around here and I'm just going to kind of scrape it away until I get to the depth I want.

So I'm going to stay inside my lines that are scribed, but basically, you don't want to go too deep.

'Cause it goes too deep, that's going to offset your door.

It's either going to not want to close all the way or going to get stuck.

So basically, I'm going to match the depth on this.

What do you think of that, Johnny?

-I think we can certainly try it.

All right.

Very nice.

All right.

All right.

Let's see what it looks like.

Looks like you got a Dutch door.

-Looks like I got a Dutch door.

Thanks, Joshua.

Nice.

-Once the new Dutch door is installed, we'll stain the two cut ends to match the door and then install a lock used to hold the two halves together so that they can still function together as a regular door.

Jonathan and I are now installing a cordless black-out shade over the two windows.

We've just installed the black-out shade, which is really important for a nursery, because it allows the baby to sleep during the day, and anything you can do to encourage the baby to sleep is really important.

We also got a Roman shade back from our designer Lauren and it's with the fabric that the couple picked out.

So, Jonathan, ready to hang this thing?

-I think so.

-All right, let's do it.

-All right.

See if you can help me out with that just a little bit when we get over here.

Going to need... Yeah.

[ Drill whirs ] ♪ -This looks perfect, Jonathan.

Exactly what the couple wanted.

-Great.

Great.

-And you'll notice there are no cords on our black-out shade.

This is really important to not have any cords in your nursery, because it can be a safety hazard for children.

We still need to get the dresser back from the refurbisher, and add a changing pad frame for safety so that it can also serve as a changing table.

Billy and Joshua are building our changing pad frame out of the scrap wood left over from the accent wall.

We will also be attaching the changing pad frame to the top of the dresser to ensure that it is safe and secure.

Lauren just arrived with our refinished dresser.

Let's check in with her and see how our dresser turned out.

So obviously, we got our dresser back from our refurbisher Emily, and it looks fantastic.

-Oh, great.

I love it, too.

-Yes, yes.

Talk to me about why you chose this color scheme.

-So, we have a lot of rustic elements going on in this nursery, and I feel like we need to mix in some cleaner finishes, but I still wanted to tie in with the rustic feel by doing a glazed finish on the drawers.

-I love these twig poles.

Talk to me about how Emily installed those.

-So, the vintage poles that were on this dresser originally were oversized, and it's not really a size that you find now.

So, Emily needed to fill those holes and drill new ones in order to install the twig poles.

-One of the most important things when you put in furniture in a nursery, especially a dresser, is we've got to anchor it to the wall.

-Mm-hmm.

-Children become climbers.

-They do.

-They pull down furniture, so we want to make sure that they're safe.

-Mm-hmm.

Most new furniture today actually comes with wall anchors.

But since this was an older piece, that's something that we'll need to do.

-Okay, well, Jonathan said he would take care of that for us.

-Oh, great.

-Yeah.

♪ It's important to anchor any large piece of furniture to the wall, not only in the nursery, but throughout the house, as well.

When learning to walk, babies will use just about anything to pull themselves up.

This can become dangerous if it happens to be a heavy piece of furniture that is not anchored down.

-Part of the design was that we're going to hang a couple of sconces on this accent wall that we put together.

Now what we're going to do is we're going to install the bracket onto the wall.

Now remember, always measure twice before you install or cut anything.

So what we did is we measured again from the end of the crib over to the bracket, and then we also came down from the ceiling, down to make sure that both sides are going to be even on the other side of the crib.

So what we can do now is we can attach our sconces.

-We are ready to hang our sconces.

We want our sconces to be equal height from the floor and equal distance from both ends of the crib.

Lauren picked up two handmade iron brackets we'll use to hang our sconces with.

These brackets match perfectly with our rustic nature theme.

Our sconces match our theme, as well.

Made out of old mason jars, they are also wireless and come with a remote control to turn the lights on and off without needing to get up when rocking the baby for extra convenience.

Now that we have everything installed, it's time for the final touches, and then we reveal the finished nursery to Anna and Joe.

Jonathan is hanging our parents-to-be DIY project over the crib.

He's using oversized wood screws to ensure the sign stays in place safely on the wall.

Incorporating nature-inspired wall art brings some extra color to the space.

Jonathan anchors our tree bookshelf to the wall.

Our nursery is complete.

Let's go get Anna and Joe.

-I'm feeling super-excited to see the finished nursery because all of these just really unique, amazing elements coming together to really serve the true purpose, which is us becoming a family of three.

-Very excited and anxious to have the nursery in place.

I think the old nesting instinct is probably occurring in both of us right now.

So once we get everything kind of in its right place, I think this will be -- this will be it.

We'll be ready to go.

-Yeah.

Just having the comfort in knowing that we have, you know, a safe, beautiful, dedicated space for our child.

-It truly feels like the last step.

And so when we bring baby home, I think we don't really know exactly what to expect, but I think we're excited for the journey.

-All right, are you ready?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Oh, my gosh.

-Oh, my gosh.

I feel speechless.

It's so amazing.

Wow.

It's so cute.

Look at this tally.

-Right on.

-I cannot even believe this is the same room.

Look at the lanterns.

And our little rope word.

So cute.

-The sign, very nice.

Got the jump rope handle.

-Yeah.

-Oh, look at that.

-I love the drawers.

-It's closed.

-Oh, my God.

I can't believe that is the same dresser.

But I just love how we never would've thought of a lot of these pieces.

Like seeing the two windows pulled together with, you know, the black-out shade, I can't wait to try that.

And the fabric just looks gorgeous in a big swath.

I can't pick a favorite part.

[ Laughs ] -I think the wood wall for me.

And the the Dutch door.

It's funny, I didn't even think about it when we walked in.

-Can we test it?

-Yeah.

-I want to see it open and close.

Oh, my gosh.

-Look at that.

-And your tent, which is so cute.

-So cute.

-But it's also safe.

These pins in it make it so it can't collapse, so it's very sturdy, yeah.

It's great.

-Very nice.

[ Laughter ] -How cozy is it?

-So, we got it right.

-You got it right.

-You definitely got it right, yeah.

-Great.

Good.

-Wouldn't change anything.

I mean, it's just gorgeous.

Now that we've seen the nursery, it's definitely real.

I mean, yeah, just seeing all the pieces that we're going to be able to take advantage of and put a lot of time in, like the glider rocking, the little baby in the glider and having a baby sleep in the crib.

-Yeah.

I can't imagine what this will be like when we have our baby.

-Me, either.

But it's such a relief to have it all done, because yeah, I mean, that was literally the last thing kind of on the list, and now we can just welcome baby with open arms.

♪ -I'm Melissa Lozoff for "Baby Makes 3," and it's time to put this one to bed.

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To be honest, I'm freaking out a bit.

There's still so much to do -- a lot of organizing, name picking, decorating, and cleaning, all while lugging around 25 or so extra pounds.

I guess I'm feeling a little bit crazy, but I'm allowed to be, right?

I'm your mom, and I want everything to be perfect for you.

I'll see you soon.

Love, mom.

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