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.
February 19, 2014 @ 2:07 pm
My first thought was, “but how are they going to get it through that window?” My second thought is you are a super genius for marrying Paul. The bed is magnificent, Paul, even more so :>)
February 19, 2014 @ 2:07 pm
There are no words to tell you how amazing your headboard-moving-magic video delighted me! I’ve been waiting and watching for it since you mentioned it in your last post.
Two things: You must have your husband under a spell because I didn’t detect a trace of resentment or frustration on his face. How do you do that? The other thing is that I am taking care of my 2 year old granddaughter, and she was on my lap when I watched the video. She was mesmerized! When it was over, she said “Again,” so instead of Strawberry Shortcake, you are our featured cartoon today! I am posting on Facebook!
February 19, 2014 @ 2:15 pm
I love how much light your house gets! Oh, and Paul seems pretty swell, too! 🙂
February 19, 2014 @ 2:22 pm
Love the video! Perfect music, too. 🙂 Nice headboard. My hubby wouldn’t have been in the dancing mood after all that! lol
February 19, 2014 @ 2:23 pm
Your husband is a genius! And you are a genius for marrying him! What a fantastic video, you both are the cutest, thanks for delighting all of us.
Melanie
February 19, 2014 @ 2:38 pm
You made bank with Paul. Not only does the man move the stuff you find, he also dances. ^_^
The music and all the cheeky winks for the camera totally make this video. You rock.
February 19, 2014 @ 2:39 pm
In 1965 my husband and I removed a Victorian bed from a Michigan cottage and dragged it to Ann Arbor for Senior year. We had just married. We lowered the bed thru a windowwith an extension cord we found in the cottage. I was up and my husband was down to receive the bed, which prompty fell on him when the cord broke. Your video made it look easy. It is not easy. I still temember.
February 19, 2014 @ 2:48 pm
I want to be you when I grow up!
February 19, 2014 @ 2:49 pm
Best. Ever!
February 19, 2014 @ 2:50 pm
Love it all. The headboard, your husband, the movie… Just hope this is your last house. I can imagine the consternation of the movers trying to figure out how to get all the furniture out of your house.
February 19, 2014 @ 3:02 pm
Are you originally from west of Harrisburg? I only ask because you said “pop” bottle instead of “soda” bottle.
You did luck out with Paul…I mean the man tied you to the roof so you wouldn’t fall AND he hauled a big ass headboard up through a window for you. If that’s not love, I don’t know what is.
February 19, 2014 @ 3:27 pm
My dad’s family is from Indiana, and we spent all our holidays out there as kids.
(It was the only time my mom let us eat all the sugar we wanted… To me, Indiana is a magical land of pop, candy canes, and ice cream.)
February 19, 2014 @ 3:05 pm
3. You make a kick-arse video!
I would write a terribly clever comment but I’m busy giving you a standing ovation.
February 19, 2014 @ 3:06 pm
I showed this to my husband and he burst out laughing at the end. We’ve been married 40 years (!!!!!) and your two points describe us perfectly… the best help I can give him with my projects is no help at all, and the smartest thing I ever did was marry him.
February 19, 2014 @ 3:27 pm
You are the bomb! Love the music.
February 19, 2014 @ 3:41 pm
LOVE IT!!! Your Paul and my Tom would have a great time together…. He’s always doing what seems to be crazy stuff but is actually GENIUS!! (He’s welding on something now as I type!) So your video reminds me of when we had to move the piano up a flight of stairs. And we WERE NOT going to pay someone to come in and do that for us (especially with free labor i.e. children)! No, my engineer husband devised a contraption including grocery store conveyor belt rollers (who doesn’t have a set of these laying around?) wood and some rope. Then we had the kids (!!!) pull the rope while he pushed it up the conveyor belt. Wish I had taken a video because while I was confident in my husband’s abilities, I was still a little concerned about becoming a real-life Laurel and Hardy movie re-make! Piano made it, no broken backs and my kids learned that it is better to work SMART than to work HARD!! Your Paul is priceless… don’t ever let him go!
February 19, 2014 @ 3:51 pm
There was something that i wasn’t used to seeing in this video . I realized it was the grass. Sad when you are starting to miss brown and dull green. signed tired of the white.
February 19, 2014 @ 3:55 pm
This video clip made my day. If they gave out Oscars for blog videos, you would win them all. I didn’t think anything could top your Don Draper video, but this was the best! Paul is the real treasure. His love for you is so touching and out there for all of the world to see. That single gesture of tethering you to keep you safe, speaks volumes. I love your blog <3
February 19, 2014 @ 3:59 pm
Oh. Wow.
February 19, 2014 @ 4:07 pm
You crazy kids! Paul is adorable. No, you both are. Love the video. Love the bed even more. 😉
February 19, 2014 @ 4:12 pm
LOVE it. The. whole. thing. I especially love how safety conscious Paul is (tethering you to the house?!), and how he kept your Beloved safe with all those blankets. He’s like a modern day Knight! I only have one question: Why don’t you have your own television show?