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 @ 10:59 am
I heart you so bad Elizabeth Barnes. This video made my morning.
February 19, 2014 @ 11:01 am
Keep that Man!
PS Keep blogging, love you!
February 19, 2014 @ 11:04 am
Happy happy happy for you!!!! As I always say ‘We’ll make it work!’ And you and Paul did just that. Determination is everything.
February 19, 2014 @ 11:04 am
Awesome ingenuity!! You have the best Craigslist finds, and you hit the lottery with Paul!! 🙂
February 19, 2014 @ 11:04 am
Strangely evocative of Laurel & Hardy’s “The Music Box”… (without a pond) and I love that you need to be tied to the house while Paul is apparently superior at walking around without spontaneously falling over! Thank you.
February 19, 2014 @ 11:08 am
I am crying!!! not because of the bed, but you and Paul. What a great team and a couple!!
February 19, 2014 @ 11:12 am
Ditto to all of the above comments. You are a delight! So creative and talented. Keep ’em coming!
February 19, 2014 @ 11:12 am
Heck with the bed….I want Paul!!!!!!! 🙂
February 19, 2014 @ 11:13 am
I love when you have videos because then I can share them with my husband and then he can see that someone else in this world has even more batshit crazy ideas and mine pale in comparison to yours. Don’t get me wrong I think you are still a rock star, but I use you as leverage when it comes to projects. Ps your husband is a genuis, but I think you are even smarter because you married him! 🙂
February 19, 2014 @ 11:16 am
Fantastically clever! BTW, if anyone says the video doesn’t play, ask them if they’re using Firefox….I had to switch to Chrome to get it to play. Can’t wait to see the bed all put together in it’s complete glory!
February 19, 2014 @ 11:17 am
I normally avoid blog posted videos like the plague but yours is so far beyond entertaining it ought to be mandatory viewing. I will watch ANYTHING you post. Everything about that video was rainbow sparkles. With unicorns. And glitter.
February 19, 2014 @ 11:17 am
Love the music and your dance at the end!
February 19, 2014 @ 11:21 am
So Victoria, you had me back at the acquisition of the kingdom mirror-but this bed thing is pretty darn good too! Loved the video. I would so enjoy seeing little videos spot tours of sections or projects within you home- maybe another video soon? I also am drawn to the opportunity to be privy to the workings of a great marriage – thank you for sharing and inspiring! I continue to be enamored with my “I can’t believe I have this!” craigslist painting I obtained after being promopted by your kingdom find. 80° in Arizona today- headed out for a hike. xoxo
February 19, 2014 @ 11:32 am
We had to take the base of our TempurPedic bed through a 2nd story window…it was a big slider window and the base JUST fit through the diagonal. We achieved this with me upstairs in the bedroom, my husband riding in a tractor loader bucket with the base, and our tween daughter at the controls of the loader !!!
It worked. But when I was replacing the curtains on that window I hit my head on the running ceiling fan and cut it, prompting a trip to my mom the nurse to make sure I didn’t need stitches.
This fall we moved that bed downstairs. Okay, I was gone, and so my husband and teenage daughter did it themselves. I don’t even want to know how.
February 19, 2014 @ 11:33 am
Oh my goodness this is amazing! You’re my hero!!
February 19, 2014 @ 11:34 am
I think Paul is wonderful! My husband would have left it in the garage… no, wait! He wouldn’t even had gone after it. 🙁 It is lovely and so are you! Loved the video!
February 19, 2014 @ 11:35 am
I ABSOLUTLEY adore the video! I love you your blog and the way you just feel something and then somehow make it work/happen!
February 19, 2014 @ 11:37 am
This reminds me so much of us carrying my antique armoire that comes in three parts. It has a bonnet, then the cabinet (which has nothing to grip) and the lower cabinet w/ drawer. The middle cabinet is too big for most any opening. And now that its upstairs, my hubby claims it will stay there. We don’t have a roof like you do to climb onto but this gives me an idea if we ever move again.
Thoroughly enjoyed your video!
Val
February 19, 2014 @ 11:37 am
Paul is a perfect match! You both have such a whimsical sense of fun. I love it! Well done!
February 19, 2014 @ 11:38 am
LOVE the video -so cute and so jealous of your find. Maybe not of all the work though. how did he remove the window to get it in? wow…
PS – those 2 shutters on the 2nd floor bedroom window don’t’ belong -remove them! they only belong where it looks like they could actually close like the single windows. I think you’ll like the difference. but thats just the overly opinionated architect in me speaking.