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.
July 14, 2017 @ 11:40 pm
You are a woman after my own heart as I have had multiple conversations about Craigslist items with my husband that are remarkably similar to yours, 😂😂😂😊
January 14, 2018 @ 3:28 pm
I belive you may be my sister perhaps in another realm. My boyfriend used to do odd jobs and renovations i guess you would say, and at the beginning was truly appalled at my ‘finds’ when i would go and ‘assist’ him . He got over his truck resembling “sanford and son” after a while. This actually had me laughing because it reminded me so much of us- just on quite a higher scale. He passed away recently as a result of an accident and i would just lke to say thank you for giving me something to look forward to watching and reading as i am genuinely grateful to have found you.
November 20, 2020 @ 4:41 pm
So how did you make the mattress fit
April 30, 2024 @ 1:41 pm
Precious. This is old and I found it because I’m thinking of selling the bed we’ve had for 25+ years that is similar to this. We had a mattress custom made for it and finally bought a new mattress that we knew would not fit. I’m still wondering how you fit a mattress into your bed. I’ve thought of just leaving off the footboard but—we have this odd sized mattress to get rid of… Not sure what to do. Anyway—I laughed all the way through your posts. You and your husband could be a younger version of me and mine. 😂❤️ Will enjoy looking through the rest of your blog!