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 @ 4:38 pm
While slaving at my job this morning, I knew that at my earliest break I would be entertained and delighted. You didn’t disappoint. Paul is a genius on figuring things out. Question: How were you ever going to fit a king sized bed in that space?
The film is brilliant. Congratulations.
xo,
Karen
February 19, 2014 @ 4:42 pm
What a lucky, lucky girl you are!!! Your husband is indeed a saint!
February 19, 2014 @ 4:47 pm
You would be so much fun to live across the street from. I could just sit in my house drinking tea, settled in for the show, saying, “Look at what those nice Barneses are up to now. A headboard on the roof. Who woulda thunk?”
And yes, Paul is a mad genius.
February 19, 2014 @ 5:00 pm
You are the “Lucy” of the blogworld…no one else could ever come up with these hair-brained ideas and then somehow make all of us “Ethels” love watching you (and Paul!!!) make it happen. She (and you) are still my favorites.
February 19, 2014 @ 5:32 pm
The video was worth waiting for!! Loved it. Can’t wait to see it all put together – especially since it isn’t made for a queen sized mattress, lol!
February 19, 2014 @ 5:39 pm
You are so LUCKY! And he can dance! (the headboard is gorgeous too)
February 19, 2014 @ 6:09 pm
I, personally, am incredibly impressed with your video production values.
February 22, 2014 @ 9:05 am
*I appreciate that.* Building the ramp/pushing/pulling headboard took maybe about an hour? I would be afraid to calculate the amount of time I spent editing.
February 19, 2014 @ 6:20 pm
I laughed so hard. I love your crazy stories.
February 19, 2014 @ 6:41 pm
I look positively reasonable and perfectly sane (as long as you’re comparing me to Victorica Elizabeth Barnes) …. okay, there was that time I bought a steel framed box springs that couldn’t be carried upstairs and had to lean around in our guest room for several years until we built a dormer onto our house and handed it thru the now queen size opening. When we move someday, we’re selling the house with a free steel frame box springs.
February 19, 2014 @ 6:55 pm
That was priceless, I really thought the rope was going around your neck!!! What a guy!!!
February 19, 2014 @ 7:06 pm
O-M-G. You and your hubs are AWESOME….and hilarious. I am sharing on FB.
February 19, 2014 @ 7:09 pm
Another awesome post that left me in tears….laughing ones! I not only read your blog but now I read CL regularly and look for things that I see “potential ” in. Haven’t been brave enough yet to make that first purchase but if I had a husband like Paul I would jump right in and not worry about such things like how I’m going to get it home etc. Keep up the good work and funny escapades. . . .
February 19, 2014 @ 7:40 pm
Great video. My teenage daughter clapped at the end for the dance and kiss!
February 19, 2014 @ 7:50 pm
“I am only the finder.” I read that line and ended up with soda coming out my nose! Thank you for all the times you’ve made me laugh! Now I get to show it to my Paul when he gets home, because it’s always more fun to laugh together. Enjoy your bed….looking forward to seeing how the mattress will be made to fit.
February 19, 2014 @ 7:57 pm
That was the cutest video and too ingenious! Well done too you both (I say getting up there on the roof and providing dance moves to boot is plenty of help 🙂
February 19, 2014 @ 8:02 pm
Hey VEB-apropos of nothing I was googling your name just to see how famous or( infamous) you had become and ironically the first reference that was available was arrest record. This just cracked me up- or maybe I’m just a wee bit cracked me-self. By the way you are famous your name brings up oodles of references.
February 22, 2014 @ 9:54 am
I am planning my next criminal heist –it involves Versailles.
February 22, 2014 @ 10:32 am
Zounds! Your next Video -two tall gorgeous characters -suitably garbed all in black…..berets set at a jaunty angle accompanied by a ? is that a cat? penetrate the locations of the worlds great treasures and abscond with them all! I don’t see any holes in this plan at all. It should definitely involve homemade ramps and a safety harness for you.
February 19, 2014 @ 8:09 pm
If the house across the street from yours ever goes on the market, please drop me a line. I would contemplate buying it just so I could have a ring side seat to your adventures. Heck, with advanced notice of any of your upcoming escapades, I could sell tickets and we could split the profits. Its a thought, just saying…..
February 19, 2014 @ 8:37 pm
The math teacher in me was delighted to see that the diagonal of the rectangular window was the perfect size to accommodate the kingdom headboard. Three cheers for the hypotenuse!
February 19, 2014 @ 8:50 pm
I really think my husband and I would have done the exact same thing. Minus
the dancing….well, I would dance, he would not. Thanks for a great post.
February 19, 2014 @ 9:09 pm
I love your husband’s ingenuity (and of course, your unrelenting awesomeness). 🙂
Next time my husband tells me something can’t be done, I’m gonna show him this video and say “Well this guy figured this out- I’m sure you can come up with something this genius too!”
I’m sure I’ll work like a charm. 😉 Thanks in advance.