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 @ 10:34 am
Genius. Now we need to see it made up!
February 19, 2014 @ 10:34 am
One word….AWESOME!
February 19, 2014 @ 10:34 am
So easy! And it didn’t take anytime at all!!! 🙂
Love the headboard, but the video? It’s the best!
February 19, 2014 @ 10:34 am
You are a lucky LUCKY woman! I love all of this.
February 19, 2014 @ 10:34 am
my take away is that your kitchen looks like a disaster zone, which only makes you more real in my eyes and puts you further up on a pedestal. You are ‘every woman’…. 🙂
February 19, 2014 @ 11:30 am
Yeeeesssss…. It DID occur to me that possibly I should NOT post that photo on the Internet.
I compromised by cropping out the worst of it.
xoxo
February 19, 2014 @ 10:36 am
i adore that video. i am slightly embarassed to admit that i watched it twice. the two of you make it look so easy. and, honestly, your husband is a genius. and you are doubly a genius for marrying him. the dance at the end was the best. so cute!
February 19, 2014 @ 10:37 am
Hysterical! Would it be considered obsessive if I watched this all day long? We had to remove a second story window 45 years ago to get our bed in the house. Alas, sadly, there was no grandeur involved. This video made me thing of Charlie Chaplin. More please!
February 19, 2014 @ 10:37 am
I can’t help but repeat what everyone else is saying – you married a good one. Seriously. Think of all the wonderfully oversized things we could all fill out homes with if we had partners who willingly built second-floor ramps and tied us off for safety? THE CRAP WE COULD BUY WOULD BE LIMITLESS. This begs the question: Does Paul have a brother? I know a gal in Maryland who likes to buy stuff from Craigslist (read: me). I’m just sayin’.
February 19, 2014 @ 5:11 pm
I was wondering about a brother also. Perhaps he has two?!
February 21, 2014 @ 4:47 pm
Be very careful, girls…it has been my experience that there can only be ONE totally awesome Paul-type person per family. If he had brothers, one might be cute, one might be smart, one might be romantic, one might be understanding, one might be able to dance and one might be understanding, but rarely will there be two with the WHOLE package!
February 19, 2014 @ 10:37 am
So basically you’re awesome and Paul is awesome, and it’s only right that you have such awesome things (even if they have to occasionally be delivered through windows.)
February 19, 2014 @ 10:38 am
OMG…do you have an extra one of those laying around? Pauls, I mean, not headboards. Anyone who will use a work glove to protect both floor and headboard is worth genetic duplication.
Also, that ramp was pretty spiffy. You should have him draw up the configuration for those of us who are less handy 😀
February 19, 2014 @ 10:39 am
Adorable!
February 19, 2014 @ 10:40 am
Wow. I’m very, very impressed. I love your little hands-on-knee dance 🙂
February 19, 2014 @ 10:41 am
That Paul is Wiley Coyote Genius! What an engineering mind. You two are so funny and aren’t you blessed to have the best playmate ever? (You know, the one who always lets you win!) I would bet that Paul would say that you keep him entertained and laughing. What a good sport and a perfect match for a very clever girl.
I love the way he tied you to the roof but he had no safety rope or net. Do you think that he believes you are a little clumsy or that he values you above all things? You two are too cute.
February 19, 2014 @ 10:42 am
I love it when the right people end up together. He needs you. And you, for sure, need him! Thanks for sharing!
February 19, 2014 @ 10:43 am
Your cinematic brilliance has convinced me of several things.
1. You are raging with amazingness and brilliant, shining genius.
2. Craigslist? Is almost the BEST. THING. EVER.
3. Paul? Is EVEN BETTER THAN CRAIGSLIST.
4. Paul clearly worships the goddess that is you with gleeful (and twirly) abandon.
5. You are clearly the second coming of Steven Spielberg.
6. I could win the Powerball tomorrow and STILL never manage to be as perfectly awesome as you, so I need to stop trying right. now. But hey – almost perfectly awesome is still available, so I’ll just strive for that.
February 19, 2014 @ 10:44 am
Also? That dip was adorable. I was cheering. 🙂
February 19, 2014 @ 1:22 pm
I am awarding your comment a very valuable (and imaginary) prize… I may skip printing it out and go directly to tattooing it on my forehead.
xoxo
February 19, 2014 @ 2:08 pm
Your reply is all the prize I need!! 😀
February 19, 2014 @ 10:48 am
I just caught up on three parts and my sides hurt from laughing. Exactly the reason why I hold off and save your posts up since I can’t possibly endure that much pain more than once a week. The whole saga is pretty epic and the video is awesome. Love the dancing at the end. You guys are nuts. I love it.
February 19, 2014 @ 10:48 am
Clone Paul.
February 19, 2014 @ 10:50 am
Love the way the top and bottom window panes just magically disappeared. More Paul magic?
February 19, 2014 @ 10:50 am
That was awesome! See, aren’t you glad your foresight made you marry Paul? He makes it look so easy. Funny the things we do to collect and house our treasures. My latest is two 8-foot corbels. It was a logistical nightmare to get them home in my sister-in-law’s car, and while I have no idea what I’m going to do with them, I simply HAD to have them. Here’s to all the fellow Mel Fishers of the home decor world! Our prowess should be an Olympic sport.
February 19, 2014 @ 11:03 pm
8-foot corbels? I didn’t know they made them that big. Did you get them off a cathedral?
February 20, 2014 @ 10:12 am
When I read that comment yesterday, I wondered too WHAT IS A CORBEL?! Gosh, this blog is SO EDUCATIVE!!! lol – I guess a corbel of that length MUST come at least from a cathedral – I shall check if the Basilique of Sacré-Coeur and the Notre Dame de Paris are still complete… 🙂
February 19, 2014 @ 10:55 am
A big round of “For He’s A Jolly Good Fellow” for Paul. Will be sending this to my husband to let him know that he is not the only one married to a crazy woman who finds AMAZING things. 🙂