Nursery Furniture

Mark and I purchased our nursery furniture last Saturday and picked it up in Greenville yesterday. Unfortunately, it was pouring down rain off and on all day. We borrowed a friend's truck and luckily Babies 'R Us wrapped our cardboard boxes in plastic to protect them from the rain. We made it back to Greenwood without mishap, but we had a surprise when we removed the plastic wrap. The crib box had some holes in it and actually looked like someone had stepped on the box and broken through the cardboard and Styrofoam packaging underneath. Here are a few pictures of the damage.


Obviously we were not very happy because they had wrapped it up in plastic wrap and not told us the box was damaged. So, after an hour's drive home, we discovered that one of the crib pieces below the holes was cracked all the way through! The dresser arrived undamaged so we thought we had better check out the changing table before calling Babies 'R Us today. It was a good thing we started putting it together. While all of the pieces were in perfect condition, one of the ends was missing two pre-drilled holes!

Luckily Babies 'R Us was great to work with and did not put up a fight for us to return the damaged pieces. They are holding a new crib and changing table for us. Unfortunately it is an hour's drive, and Mark does not have any days off until we come home for New Year's. Hopefully Mark can get them loaded into the Jeep, and I'll be able to exchange them on Christmas Eve (since I am off work and Mark is on call and will be at the hospital all day). We'll see. Here are pictures of what the furniture looks like. We had not planned on getting all three pieces but got a great deal and saved a lot of money. Yippee! They look black below but they are really a chocolate brown. Once we get them set up in the nursery we'll post pictures.