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 20, 2014 @ 11:46 am
Your husband is so cool for taking part in recording this! Can’t wait to see part 4. There will be a part 4 right?
February 20, 2014 @ 12:14 pm
Dearest Victoria,
You make my day. Thank you for being so funny and adorable.
February 20, 2014 @ 12:34 pm
So cute and SO worth it! Beautiful headboard. (and what a great sport of a husband)
February 20, 2014 @ 1:53 pm
I swear yall are just adorable!
February 20, 2014 @ 5:07 pm
All I can say is that your husband really, really LOVES you.
February 20, 2014 @ 5:19 pm
Aww you got a “harness”! In case of an emergency rooftop-dancing 🙂
February 20, 2014 @ 8:20 pm
Wow! You should make more movies! Loved the ending….
The headboard is to die for.
February 21, 2014 @ 12:37 am
If you ever figure out how to bottle or clone your husband. Please let me know know how… 🙂
February 21, 2014 @ 11:12 am
Girl, you are batshit crazy. And I mean that in all the best possible ways.
February 21, 2014 @ 12:39 pm
Ohh, Victoria, It all worked out for you, I am so happy for you and amused at the same time. I knew you would figure a way( PAUL) to get the “Huge Magnificent Headboard” home and into your bedroom . Can’t wait to see the finished room. Thanks for all little details, in the adventure that is your life.
February 21, 2014 @ 10:34 pm
I keep wondering why you don’t have your own reality tv show. I’d even up our cable to watch you on HGTV 🙂 The video was epic! Great work all around.
February 22, 2014 @ 9:33 am
I totally agree with Maggie’s post about you and Paul having your own reality show!! Make it happen! 🙂
February 22, 2014 @ 11:40 am
Haha! That was awesome. That bed is freakin’ gorgeous, so I’m glad you guys were able to get it upstairs in one piece.
February 22, 2014 @ 11:44 am
The music, dancing, rig, and headboard are nice and all, but my favorite part is where you have fall protection to be on the porch roof and your husband doesn’t.
February 22, 2014 @ 11:45 am
VEB and Paul, I love you both and this video! Score on the headboard and each other! Can’t wait to be reading about the mattress fitting and seeing the room all made up!
February 22, 2014 @ 1:15 pm
LOL! Paul is a keeper!
February 22, 2014 @ 5:07 pm
Great video! Love the home movies!!! Paul, great job with the sled to haul the headboard up. Like that your windows can come out to accomodate large items. 🙂
Yep, you are the Queen of Craigslist!!! Part Erma Bombeck and a lot of Carol Burnett!!! Enjoy your new bed!!!
February 22, 2014 @ 9:53 pm
I think the thing I love the most about this video is that Paul ACTUALLY waited every time you had to move the video camera! He absolutely rocks (as do you, of course).
February 22, 2014 @ 10:19 pm
That is hilarious and great on so many levels- I can’t believe you took out the window to get that inside. Beauty is its own excuse!
February 22, 2014 @ 10:59 pm
I laugh at all of your posts, but this one sent me into such hysterics that I nearly had an asthma attack AND I woke my deaf dog. Yep. True story.