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- Today on "Baby Makes 3" -- twins.

We're at the home of Marley and Michael, who were surprised with twins.

With nearly 140,000 multiple births in the United States each year, having twins is more common than many people think.

To add to the excitement, our couple is having both a boy and a girl, and they're going to share the same space.

Marley's career in the hospital takes her out of the home quite a bit, so Michael is going to take on much of the responsibility creating the space.

"Baby Makes 3," though, is here to help today on "Baby Makes 4."

♪ 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.

- Hey, I'm Marley.

- And I'm Michael.

- And we are expecting twins.

So, I'm a resident.

I went to medical school, and now I'm in a residency program for pediatrics and anesthesia.

- So, I'm a clinical physicist that works in radiation oncology.

- When we had our first ultrasound, it never had crossed my mind that it would be twins, like, never crossed my mind, and so I may have cried a little bit.

- Right.

I was prepared for there to be anywhere from one to three at the ultrasound.

- He was very quick to say, "This is a good thing.

They'll, you know, have each other to play with.

It's efficient this way.

If we wanted two kids, you can knock it out in one pregnancy," whereas I was thinking... - Right, one and done.

- ...I'm a resident.

You know, I can't have twins if one baby's already a lot of work.

But certainly since then, I've come around to the idea, and I'm excited about it.

- We may have some hospital weekend dates where I show up at the hospital with two babies, and we get lunch with you.

- Yes.

- And then I leave with them.

- I have seen my residency coworkers do that.

They've their husbands bring the baby to the hospital, and they all meet at Starbucks for a 20-minute coffee break, and we may be doing that sometimes.

So, we love the idea of a travel theme for the nursery.

When we were thinking about what we have in common, what we like, what's important to us, travel definitely came up as a theme in our own relationship.

- Right.

- Probably in the 4 1/2 years we've been together, some of our best memories and experiences together have been our travels.

Doing a nursery completely on our own would've been a stressful process.

- It would've been exhausting for both of us, especially you.

I don't know if you would've made it.

- Yeah, I think it would've been stressful, yeah, and tiring, and picking out furniture and trying to come up with a theme.

- I don't even know where we would've begun.

- Yeah, so it's better this way, for sure.

- I guess a place that's comfortable, that they enjoy being in, and that we can just talk about and tell them about in the future.

- The space that our "Baby Makes 3" team will be converting into a nursery for two is fortunately roomy with good light.

Our cribs will fit nicely side by side on one wall, and a double window will illuminate the entire room.

We'll also have plenty of room for seating and storage.

Now I'm back with our contractor, Jonathan, to show our couple some ideas.

- So it's an exciting time for you guys, and you've had a lot of surprises in the last few months.

- Yeah, absolutely.

- But we are here to help, and this is Jonathan, our contractor.

- Hey.

- Hey.

Nice to meet you.

- Same to you.

- Nice to meet you.

- And we have, with the "Baby Makes 3" team, designed a really fun, functional design for your travel-theme nursery.

- Okay.

Great.

- Ready to look at some ideas?

- Yeah.

Definitely.

- Yeah, yeah, we got some great stuff.

- All right.

Here we go.

- Oh, wow.

- For your travel-themed nursery for twins, we're going to create an accent wall.

Above, we'll add a map of the world.

His-and-her cribs will be placed along the wall with a dresser and changing table in between.

♪ On the window wall, we'll place our world map with animal cutouts with an iconic travel-themed bookshelf, a London phone booth.

On the opposite wall, we'll be converting a love seat into a double rocker.

End tables will be made from luggage.

And we'll add lamps with shades that we'll make from globes.

Overhead, we'll make our own wall art that doubles as a soothing night-light for baby.

We'll finish the room with many finishing touches, including DIY hot air balloons, a rug, and more.

So, Marley and Michael, we are packed and ready to go.

- Well, I hope our design ideas for your travel-theme nursery fit with what you were thinking about.

- Yeah, I would say that it definitely does.

- Absolutely.

I'm so excited.

It looks great.

- Yeah.

- Great.

- To get started with our twins' nursery, the "Baby Makes 3" team will start by adding raised-panel wainscoting for an accent wall.

Originally, we had planned to use beadboard, but we've reconsidered.

♪ - Hey, guys.

- Hey.

- Hi.

- How you doing?

- Good.

Looks like you guys are already starting the chair railing.

This is going to be our accent wall, and we were thinking about beadboard, but that's kind of more of a traditional look.

- Right.

Yeah, we wanted to do something a little bit more modern.

- Yeah.

- So we're doing a take on beadboard, but it's more like a paneling design on the wall.

We went ahead and put up the boards that are going to be in the corners.

We know where those go.

And then we went ahead and decided on the spacing.

So, you can see we know how wide these boards are, the width between the two boards that we already put up.

And then we decided that about seven boards would look good.

That gives up roughly 22 inches between each panel.

- How did you decide seven?

- Well, we were going for something about 2 feet, so seven boards put us right really close to 2 feet.

- Okay.

- Yep.

And also, we miss the outlets by doing that.

- The boards have to go flush to the baseboard.

- Right.

- So you've had to do something to prep the baseboard.

- Because of the thickness of the boards that we're putting up on the wall, what we had to do is actually space the base molding off of the wall a bit, so we put a piece of trim here that's the same thickness as the boards we're going to be putting up.

-Okay.

- So we just pulled the trim off and put this behind it, and then that'll make everything be flush.

- Great.

- Yeah.

- Okay.

So what's next?

You're going to put the seven boards up first.

- Right.

Yeah, and then we'll run the piece on the top that's actually the chair rail.

- Okay.

And then, from there, we're going to paint it white.

- Right.

Yeah, we'll run caulking around all the seams.

That'll basically make it all look like one continuous piece, and then it'll get painted.

- Can I help?

- Yeah, that'd be great.

- All right.

- You want to go ahead and put some glue on here?

- I will.

- All right.

- Little safety glasses on.

Okay.

- This adhesive's really strong.

So just one stripe right down the middle would be great, and that'll prevent it from seeping out the sides, which is something we don't really want.

So, yeah, Justin's going to hold up these two spacers.

- Okay.

- And then I'm going to put the board almost on the wall, not quite press it.

I'm going to check my level and adjust it just a little bit and then press it against the wall.

And then we'll shoot a couple nails into here... - Okay.

- ...just to hold it in place.

And that'll be plenty.

- Great.

Wow.

That was easy.

- Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Pretty easy.

- So next.

- Yeah, move on down the line.

- Here we go right now.

Okay.

- Also, to let you know, we're using 18-gauge 2-inch nails.

- Okay.

- So they're really tiny.

They leave a small, little mark on here, which we can easily fill with either caulk or, like, some spackling for the wall.

♪ - What a chair rail serves, basically, is to protect the wall from, again, chairs, baby cribs, tables, anything that's going to be about the height of the chair rail, which is going to be around 24, 36.

It's really whatever you want, but it's really just to protect the wall, and then another added feature -- It's a really nice just accent to it.

- Now we're going to put on the top of the chair railing, right?

- Yeah.

- Okay.

So more glue.

- Sure.

Yeah.

So we went ahead and cut this piece, and most importantly, we tested it to make sure that it fits right before we put the glue on there.

- Right.

- And we also cut the two pieces so that they're going to have a seam resting on one of these boards, on the uprights, a little bit better than if it was just in the middle.

Wouldn't really be a big deal if it was in the middle, but this a bit better since we had the wood to do it.

- Is it because it's sturdier, or -- - Yeah, it's a bit sturdier, and then also, you know, we can just make this go away a little bit more when we paint it.

- Okay.

- Yeah.

- Great.

So now glue on here?

- That's right.

- And this is a wider piece.

- Yeah, so we're going to use a little bit more glue than we did before.

Stick it on up there.

- Okay.

Good.

- Very nice.

And so I'll just start at one end here, because we want to make sure that the seam's tight.

These marks where we had known the approximate location of the studs... - Mm-hmm.

- ...when I put the nails in, I'll just do a nail pattern that pretty likely one of these nails is going to catch the stud.

- Okay.

So you're going to do a diagonal.

- One of them will hit the stud.

- That's right.

And then, when you get to the corner, there's always going to be some studs in the corner.

-Okay.

- So we want to angle the nail gun to try to hit one of them.

- Okay.

- Great.

Nice.

- Yeah, that's the last bit of it.

- Sturdy.

Okay.

- What do you think?

Looks pretty good?

- I think it looks great.

- Up here, we're going to put a map mural, and then we're going to paint this white.

And then this is going to be gray so it matches the rest of the walls in the room.

- That's it.

- It's going to look great.

- Pretty good.

- Nice.

Thank you.

♪ All right.

Michael, Jonathan, we're going to create a unique piece of art.

- All right.

- Okay?

So tell us about this.

- So this is a 5x4 piece of white pine.

We've actually boxed it out to where you have a 1x2 and then a 1x4, and what we're going to do is cover the tapestry over this and then wrap it back around underneath.

And then our LED lightings are going to run along this edge right here, and when you're looking at it from the front view, you're not going to be able to see those lights, and those lights are going to change color, so this thing really should pop.

- Great.

This is a tapestry that we got, and it's -- I'll show you over here.

Yeah, see, I like the green a lot as well as the blues, so you want to figure out what part of the picture that you like.

- So more blue, more green, or you like half and half?

- I like half and half.

- Yeah.

- We're want to go ahead and flip this over... - Okay.

- ...and start stapling it down.

- All right.

♪ And we'll just double-check that we have what we want before we staple.

Think this is pretty close to the way we laid it out.

What do you think, Jonathan?

- I think that's probably pretty good.

- Michael, you happy?

- Mm-hmm.

- Okay.

So now that we've got it set, let's try to make the attachments, and what we need to do is we need to start on one end.

That way, we'll have it secure.

We're just going to use typical hand stapler.

- Okay.

- Let you guys start on that end.

Pretty easy process.

- I'll do a few, and then, Michael, I'm going to hand it over to you.

Ready?

- So what we want to do here is definitely tighten this corner, and so when you're stapling it, you definitely want to make sure that the staples are parallel to the wood.

Otherwise, it's going to create a pulling, and it'll just rip it, right... - Okay.

- ...versus how you've got it there, which is the correct way.

- Now that we have one side, I think we should attach all the corners first, stretch it, and then we can go back and secure the sides.

- I'm excited to see how the final product looks, and I'm really excited how the babies enjoy seeing a literal sky changing colors in front of them while they're laying down, hopefully sleeping 8 to 12 hours every night.

- All right.

I think that's the last staple, so what I'd like to do is tip it up and make sure it looks good and that it's tight enough.

- You guys got that?

- That looks really good.

What do you think, Michael?

- It looks great.

- Yeah.

- I like it.

- Tight enough?

- Tight enough.

- Looks good.

- All right.

So let's get it back down.

- Yeah.

Okay.

What I want us to do is cut off the excess on both of these sides.

Michael, you can -- You don't want to cut too close to your staple because then it could pull out, and you have nothing to go with, so just a couple inches past it.

- So right here?

- I think that would work.

- Okay.

- You can trim that corner up as need be once you kind of get through some of the material.

- Yeah, and we can -- ♪ All right.

♪ We have our LED lights strung together, so now it's time to actually put them down around our frame.

I don't want to put them on the edge here, because you'll actually see the lights through the fabric, so we have this great ledge that we're going to attach the lights to.

And this is what takes the signal from the remote, and the wood will block it, so we're just going to angle that out a little bit, because it'll go through the fabric.

So we'll just do -- See that lovely little -- - There we go.

Great.

- Whoo-hoo.

Okay?

And it's easy.

It's just peel and stick, so we'll just peel and stick.

- Keep peeling.

- Peel and stick.

- Peel it all the way down, production line.

- Okay.

- Just press it down, and it should stick right on.

It's got a nice adhesive.

Yeah.

Think you're good, and again, if you feel like you make a mistake, it should peel right back up.

And once it is all set down, it'll stick and hold no problem.

The tapestry is supposed to serve as clouds.

The LED lights are really going to bring and add an element to it that really will give it that just variation of color and lights.

LED lights come in pretty much any variety that you want -- yellow, green, blue, purple, pink.

You know, it's a really, really simple, wide variety.

It's endless, so you're going to be able to catch every single color that you want or need, or you can go just straight single colors -- white, green.

But these days, they have remotes that allow you to change these things up and just, you know, make it easy to change them around.

♪ - [ Gasps ] Oh, my gosh.

♪ - All right, Michael.

So as you can see, we've started some progress on this wall over here, but I'm not so sure if you're happy with the paint job.

But that's not something that you should really worry about -- - It's a big green square there.

- Big green square.

Not to worry.

We've got a decal that we're going to put on the wall, and it's going to resemble the world.

So it sticks with your travel theme and should look really nice.

- Sounds great.

- So Oak City's here to help us install that, so show us how that goes, guys.

- Sure.

So, the decal that we've got will span the whole width of the wall.

It's in two pieces, so we're going to put up the bottom piece first.

That'll go about halfway up the wall.

Then, the top piece is going to just overlap it slightly, and then you won't really be able to tell that there was a seam there.

- All right.

Sounds good.

- Okay?

- Cool.

- So like I was saying, we'll start with the bottom piece, which we've got here.

Okay.

So we got the bottom piece right here.

Cool.

So you can see it's a little bit longer on both sides than the wall, so we're going to kind of center it up.

- Okay.

- What we'll do -- Jonathan, if you can man the tape, we'll lift this up here, and we want to line the bottom edge up with just the top of the trim everywhere.

All right.

And then Jonathan's going to go around, and he's going to tape the top edge to the wall.

Start by trimming one of these edges into the corner.

- Okay.

- And then we can start sort of from one edge.

We'll pull the backing off.

We'll cut the backing off, and now that the map is secured on the wall, it's not going to move around while we try to adhere it to the wall.

Then we can pull some of the map off and start going down the wall that way.

- So just slowly ease your way from one side to the other.

- We want to be really careful, because if you start getting off a little bit, it's really tricky to keep it lined up.

So -- - Okay.

Good deal.

- What do you think?

- Looks great.

- So that's the easy one.

- Yeah, we got another half of the world to go.

- Yeah, that's right.

- So now we can carefully pull off this tape.

- Nice.

- All right.

So we'll do sort of the same thing.

We're going to roll out the top mat.

Then we're going to get it up near the ceiling and tape it up there.

It's going to be a little trickier, because it's up near the ceiling.

- Right.

- So in order to make this map a little bit easier to deal with, we're going to go ahead and trim some of it off and kind of get it to the right size.

- Okay.

♪ ♪ - So, yeah.

Now we can just go over it.

If you see any air bubbles or anything like that, kind of smash the seam in place, really make sure it's up there on the wall.

♪ Well, this looks great.

- Yeah.

- Looks great.

- Our guys have moved to the backyard to work on another project -- putting rockers on a love seat to accommodate both parents and their babies.

Dylan and Jonathan have mapped out a rocker design, which they'll cut with a router.

♪ Our matching set will be glued and fastened together for extra strength to support the love seat.

♪ Dowels will be used to secure it and the upper supports to the seat.

♪ - So after we get this set, Dylan, what's the next spot?

- Next thing we need to do is just give this about 30 minutes for the glue to kind of set up.

Then we can sand this one to match the other one, and then we'll paint them before we install them.

- Okay.

Sounds good.

- Yeah.

Yeah.

Pretty easy project, and it's kind of fun, too.

- Yeah.

It is.

Absolutely.

I've never seen this before.

We stained the rocker the same color as the end tables so they would match and look perfect.

So, we were looking for a glider that would fit twins, but really, we couldn't find anything out there that made a whole lot of sense.

So what we did is we found a love seat, and we're going to convert it with a little special twist.

We're going to add some rockers on the bottom, so it'll be a nice, easy rock with both of you to be able to sit in it with your kids.

- Sounds good.

- Sound good?

- Great.

Yeah.

- All right.

Dylan, you want to show us how we're going to install this?

- Yeah.

Sure.

We've already fabricated the two rockers.

- Sure.

- And we're going to screw them all in where the legs are right now.

- Okay.

- So to get started with that, we're going to flip the couch over.

This one, the back comes off of it pretty easily, so we're just going to pull the back off first... - Okay.

- ...and then flip it over.

- Slide right up.

All right.

We'll move that to the side.

- Nice.

- All right.

- Yeah, and then we can just turn this couch over.

Cool.

So you can see that the legs are just attached at the corners, but there's substantial wood the whole way, so the legs will fit on here really, really nice.

- Okay.

So the first thing we will do is take these legs off, correct?

- Yeah, that's right.

- All right.

Want to give it a go?

- Sure.

Michael, do you want a turn?

- No.

I think you should go.

- All right.

How about I do the left side?

- All right.

- There you go.

That's it.

- Didn't know there was a reverse setting, so... [ Laughter ] - There you go.

And one is gone.

- When I was picturing the nursery with twins, I was still just picturing, you know, one chair that would hold one of us and maybe two babies at a time, maybe one baby at a time, and so having something that we'll both be able to comfortably sit in and both be able to hold and soothe babies and feed babies is going to be really important.

And the project itself was a lot of fun, and getting to play with the power tools, I've learned, has been an unexpected thing that I've really been enjoying, so it's a good project all around.

- Cool.

So now we're ready to put on the rockers.

Here you go.

- Okay.

- Oh, those look great.

- So, yeah, we're just going to line them up basically right where the old legs were... - Okay.

- ...and put these on there.

- Here's some screws right here.

- Cool.

♪ There you go.

Yeah.

- Yeah, you're getting good at this now.

- Definitely recognizing that sound change.

- Mm-hmm.

Yeah, that means it's all the way in.

♪ - All right.

Ready to do the second one?

- Yeah.

- Cool.

♪ Yeah, I think that's good.

♪ - There you go.

- Nice.

- Awesome.

- All right.

- Cool.

- You guys ready to flip this over and have a seat?

- Yeah, let's do it.

- Cool.

- Check to make sure none of those screws went all the way through.

A little aggressive.

[ Chuckles ] - There we go.

All right.

Ready to rock.

- Want to test it out?

-You first.

- Let's do it.

Oh, man.

This is great.

- Looks good.

- Practice with babies.

- Rock at the same time.

- One for each.

- There you go.

- That's great.

- It works.

- Love it.

- Hey, that's good stuff.

- That's a good project.

- Next time, we'll be building one of the most unique bookshelves I've seen to match a London telephone booth.

We also have several fun craft projects, including animal cutouts decorated with world maps.

Children will love them.

Every element in the room evokes a travel motif.

All of this and more next time on "Baby Makes 3."

- Oh.

- Oh, my gosh.

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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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