Making room: babies won’t say it, but they like good design, too

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Making room: babies won’t say it, but they like good design, too

Ashley Palmer is one month out from her due date, and her baby room is almost finished! Here are some tips Ashley Daly shared in this week's

The Tulsa Voice

on how to put together a nursery. Snippet and link to full article below.

My business partner is pregnant.

So are several other close friends, several adored acquaintances, and probably the dog next door to me. That’s at least a dozen babies recently born or baking to completion within the past year. I’m nearly 30—it’s just that phase of life, I guess.

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Small Business Style: The Workplace Nursery

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Small Business Style: The Workplace Nursery

We try our best to only do fun things on Monday. Retro Den business policy. Today, we had our fun setting up a lounge and nursery for our soon-to-be newest employee, Baby Caroline. Ashley Palmer is due in only a few short weeks, so we had to get Caroline a comfy place to hang out at the shop. As if having a sweet new addition to our Retro Den family isn't enough, making her a nursery encouraged us to finally get our back room organized. Boy, or girl, does it feel good! You can't see in the after photo, but we moved our black wire shelf and reorganized it. Now we each have a shelf and bins for organizing our things; Caroline has her own too!

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Retro Den Office Renovation on Prairie Hive

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Retro Den Office Renovation on Prairie Hive

Ashley and I had the incredible pleasure of furnishing a 6,500 square foot downtown Tulsa office space for Consumer Affairs, a super cool software start-up. Our friends at Prairie Hive helped us document the before and after process; read about the project and see photos on their blog.

We rescued this gorgeous conference table top and paired it with a set of metal bases. The table top was too long to take up the stairs or the elevator, and we were finally told it wouldn't be able to make it to the second story office. However, we brought in our friend Fix-It, truly the great fixer of everything, for his opinion. He spied an industrial lift sitting on the street outside the building and said we simply needed to find whoever owned or was renting it.

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