A video where we haul the bed up to the second-floor roof and shove it in the bedroom window.
In case you missed: bed part 1, bed part 2.
The headboard alone was enough to sell me on this bed. If there had been nothing but the the fancy bit at the top glued to a cardboard refrigerator box, I would have liked it just as much.
Also, I hate footboards like I hate turtlenecks– a lot. So to find an antique bed designed with no footboard at all, and a fancy headboard nearly 7 feet tall, and will accommodate our queen-size mattress… (sort of.) I knew this was the bed I had been waiting for.
Besides, if at some point it turns out I was wrong and I do find a king-size bed? That will be EVEN BETTER. Because I will stack this bed on top of it and make bunkbeds of awesomeness.
As we headed home with the headboard strapped to the roof of the van, I said to Paul – tell me, realistically? Do you think this will actually fit up the stairwell?
Paul said– what? Now you’re a realist?
And I thought to myself– he’s right, who even cares. Maybe I will just stack it in front of The Kingdom Mirror. In fact, that room is underused in general and I should start thinking of it as a warehouse for spare glory… a storage unit for displaced magnificence — who doesn’t need one of those?
Besides, as previously established – I am only the finder. After that? It’s Paul’s show.
We got home late at night and hauled it into the kitchen. Then it just sat there while we waited for our other bed to sell (on craigslist). It took a couple of weeks, considering the holidays and everything.
Paul fixed the break in the footboard, (you would never know, if you were not looking for it closely). And he decided we would skip the fool’s errand of getting it stuck halfway up the stairwell.
So Paul built a ramp/sled up to the front-porch roof outside the bedroom window.
Rather than forming words to explain this, you can see for yourself:
I would guess that I have impressed you with two things:
1– my ability to help. Without helping at all.
2– the extraordinary foresight I showed in marrying Paul.
Related posts:
see my other craigslist finds… or read about the time I was scammed on craigslist.
judy
February 23, 2014 @ 7:24 pm
check out eBay item #161230629615 bonafide2008(8) not an antique but the style seems right and the opening bid is $400. and I don’t think there have been any bids. O f course it is in Jersey with pickup only
Ocean State Home
February 24, 2014 @ 7:58 am
That was a great video. And I can understand all that effort for the headboard. It’s awesome looking.
Are you related to Charlie Chaplin?
Leah
February 24, 2014 @ 2:52 pm
Dear Victoria,
CANNOT WAIT for “episode 3” of the bed saga….and also, I think Jennifer Rizzo has a chair that you might like!!!!!
Leah: )
Me Again: )
February 24, 2014 @ 2:57 pm
That’s jenniferrizzo.com – Feb.24th post…scroll down!!!
Jeanette
February 24, 2014 @ 4:56 pm
Love the video! So impressed by the dancing, the tethers, that you took out the ENTIRE window to get the headboard in… Wow. That is true love folks, right there!
Diana C.
February 24, 2014 @ 5:40 pm
I even showed this to my husband who like you and me, must be a twin to Paul, because he said the first thing he would so is tie a rope around me to make sure he didn’t lose his greatest treasure… me! We loved the video. Now, we are waiting for the finished product, which are mounds of comfy bedding piled with tons of gloriously bowed pillows!
Linda
February 24, 2014 @ 9:28 pm
I refuse to use the word awesome. One of my personal quirks. What else means over the top best of eveything? I won’t bring you down by saying what I’m dealing with right now. Unspeakable. I needed something tonight to keep from going under. Knew just where to go. Worked, as I knew it would. You are the total package, with sprinkles. And your follower fans are a great bonus. Thank you, one and all.
CanadianMango
February 25, 2014 @ 6:45 pm
The video clip was terrific. Congrats on
a) getting the headboard
b) getting it into the bedroom
c) your theatrical talents.
You are awesome.
Julie
February 25, 2014 @ 8:00 pm
I found your blog through a comment you made on a post over at Young House Love. This is the first post I’ve read. That video made me smile when I really needed to smile today and for that I give you a big thanks. Also, I may become addicted to your blog if I find more 1920’s dancing and twirling videos. That was adorable.
Melissa
February 26, 2014 @ 11:04 am
Despite the awesomeness of the bed, obviously, I’m more puzzled that you were able to take your window out, just like that? I must be missing something. All the windows we have here in California don’t open, the slide, and are a permanent fixture.
Heidi
February 26, 2014 @ 5:48 pm
Melissa i thought the same thing! Windows are removable? Not here in L.A.!
sandy
February 28, 2014 @ 12:57 am
We have windows here that you can release from the inside and detach the top portion and bottom portion for cleaning. There are separate sliding screens so you don’t get birds and squirrels inside wile the windows are detached.
sandy
February 28, 2014 @ 1:02 am
That would be “while” (sigh)
Alex
February 26, 2014 @ 4:08 pm
I can’t even find a sentence to write. I’m in awe.
So what this means is you’re never ever moving again….
Dove
February 27, 2014 @ 4:09 pm
So I keep thinking about your mirror troll and what it would say about the fact that, yes, you got a Kingdom mirror for $300… but what would it be willing pay for a Mirror From Heaven: http://atlanta.craigslist.org/nat/atq/4341783459.html … which is only – after all – located in South Carolina. I believe that if you sit in front of this mirror you will see yourself as Head Boy and Gryffindor Quidditch Captain.
Victoria Elizabeth Barnes
February 28, 2014 @ 9:24 am
Holy Bejezuz.
Dove
March 1, 2014 @ 3:10 pm
What? No appropriate locale for 8 feet of carved life-sized gilt babies? Perhaps you have a velvet clam sofa we haven’t seen yet where this ostentatious beauty could stand watch.
sandy
February 28, 2014 @ 12:52 am
OMG I loved the video! The music was perfect. The headboard is beautiful. Paul is a genius. And the dance at the end was Perfect!
Maggie is right — you and Paul need your own reality t.v. show
Rebecca Knight
February 28, 2014 @ 2:59 am
OMG! I love this video ESPECIALLY your dancing! How did you make it look so silent movie style. Amazing. And I believe I may have shared on Google+ first. Or Google doesn’t have a counter. Not sure but I love it!
Amy Dobek
February 28, 2014 @ 10:13 am
I am SO seeing a road trip in your future.
Veganopoulous
February 28, 2014 @ 11:17 pm
I would very much like to borrow Paul please. As he appears used to long drives, a flight around the world really isn’t that much different. See, when my husband and I went to a bed store to buy our mattress, my husband said “you go and choose what you like and I’ll wait here”. Except ‘here’ was my husband sprawling out on one of the display beds having a rest while I shopped for an hour. I wish I had a blog back then.
twduncan
March 2, 2014 @ 10:23 am
just WOW!
Life on Hill Street
March 5, 2014 @ 11:00 am
Ah! That video was just perfect – the adorable ending was the best part! 🙂
Heather
March 6, 2014 @ 10:43 am
Oh, How I wish I was your next door neighbor!
Melissa wilson
March 10, 2014 @ 10:41 pm
I can’t decide what part of the video I love the most – probably that your *awesome* husband sacrificed his safety once you were on the roof and tied you to the house (rather than himself). I too have a wonderful husband and constantly have to acknowledge that I did, indeed, marry up. All my best to you on your amazing house/reno/life journey!
Suzan
March 22, 2014 @ 4:33 am
I can’t tell you how much I loved this post – ( except if it were me I would have broke out into a dance and the headboard would have went flying off the roof LMHO )
Too funny!
But that headboard?
Make sure your windows are locked – because I may just find out where you live and twirl all the way from Montreal – make my way up to your roof – and steal it – while your sleeping………
G.O.R.G.E.O.U.S. –
XOXO
( visiting from Funky Junk )