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  1. Jessica
    January 23, 2014 @ 8:32 pm

    Hi,

    Have you thought about using the headboard, but making a custom bed box for the mattress you have? Try Ana White’s site. She makes her own furniture. There will be some great ideas there, as she has plans for several beds. http://ana-white.com/

    My suggestion would be that since the headboard is what you really want, you can cut it free of the rest of the frame. That would make it easier to maneuver it up the stairs. Then, get some wood, build the correct size and height bed box. Stain it in something close to the color of the headboard. Even if it’s a bit ugly, you can use a bed skirt to cover it. Then attach the headboard, and voila! Victorian bed.

    The headboard may be a little narrower than your mattress. You have several options there. Leave it, or, if it’s TOO narrow and it looks weird, use the curley parts of the side that are right next to the headboard to “extend” it. Just connect them at the back so they are flat with the headboard, and no one will see them. Same color already, too.

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  2. Carolyn
    January 24, 2014 @ 5:08 pm

    It’s in MA, and it doesn’t have the super awesome looking wrap-around base, but it’s just as fancy a headboard and a super fancy footboard to boot, and would actually fit your bed: http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/fuo/4273888274.html

    Of course it’s more money, further away, you’d need to get a boxspring, and it wouldn’t let you upgrade to a king… I’m not really helping after all, am I? At least it doesn’t involve cutting the mattress?

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  3. Sharon
    January 25, 2014 @ 10:10 am

    Have you seen Napoleon’s bed? no one else is using it they’d probably let you have it.

    http://tonesandtints.com/the-louvre-a-challenging-photographic-subject/_mg_8060/

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  4. Lysa
    January 25, 2014 @ 12:39 pm

    I fixed this exact same problem with an iron bed many years ago. My then 20-year old self just nailed 2×4’s to the bottom of the box springs to fit inside the bed rail, raising the too-big mattresses just over the too small frame. I fit a bottom sheet over the box spring and boards – no one has ever noticed.

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  5. Patricia Hall
    January 26, 2014 @ 10:07 am

    Many years ago we faced a similar problem involving skinny stairs and a too big steel framed box springs. For two years it stayed downstairs leaning against a wall. We solved that tiny little problem by cutting a hole in the roof and building a new bathroom upstairs (we needed one up there anyway…). Our carpenters handed the box springs upstairs thru the framing and voila! Problem solved. Of course, when we sell the house, the new owners get a ‘free’ box spring.
    See. All St. Paul has to do is cut a hole in the roof. You probably wanted a sky light or dormer for a bigger closet anyway.

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  6. Cassie
    January 27, 2014 @ 4:02 pm

    This is absolutely fabulous.

    That’s all I have to say.

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  7. Jennifer
    January 27, 2014 @ 8:10 pm

    DYING FOR PART 2!!!!!! Seriously NEED the rest of this story! My husband and I were both dying laughing while reading this post. Let’s just say this saga has played out several times at our house.

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  8. judy
    January 30, 2014 @ 11:22 am

    http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoteDeTexas/~3/RGrehFhWAwg/versailles-in-sky-look-at-inspirations_29.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

    I hope this link works-because in terms of mirrors, gorgeous stuff, and bling this place is over the top!

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  9. Celeste
    February 2, 2014 @ 3:51 pm

    WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE BED?! We’re dying here, you know…

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  10. Chenell
    February 3, 2014 @ 10:26 am

    So???? What happened????

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  11. Tiffany
    February 5, 2014 @ 11:00 am

    It’s so refreshing to know that there are others out there who fall in love with items and worry about where/how they will go into the house later. I mean, it’s not EVERYDAY you find something completely fabulous that tugs at your heartstrings!

    Good luck with the bed! I have dragged several home myself. Once I managed to get a larger headboard than the one you have up the 22 stairs of my Victorian house with my 9 year old before the husband got home. Surprise! New bed for hubby!

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  12. Traci
    February 5, 2014 @ 5:35 pm

    I have to say you had me with Victorian Bed. Your story was also fun to follow, can’t wait to read part two.

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  13. Vickie Griffin
    February 12, 2014 @ 12:01 am

    This is the only blog that I check daily just to see if there are new comments. I love everything about your blog. What a fun group of people who comment here. Love everything you do
    Victoria.

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  14. Bubullina
    April 17, 2014 @ 3:14 am

    I love how the photos are inserted in the post, like after every paragraph the bed says from the picture “you see what she’s talking about?”, “see how handsome am I?”.
    And the bed is not really my cup tea, so I guess that’s just you and your magic hilarious writing. Or your bed troll controls minds over the internet, not sure what it is.

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  15. Susan Dobie
    November 13, 2014 @ 11:39 pm

    Holy Crap Batman! You two are like, well, a younger, more affluent Yankee version of us! I discovered your blog through the link on The Bloggess and I’ve been laughing my sides off way past my bedtime now, ever since.

    Our last two Craigslist finds were both free. And one was a big wardrobe. Not fancy like yours but BIG. And free. And happened on a Saturday that began with, “Honey, you gotta come look at this freebie.” Followed by an 80 or so mile round trip followed by getting home with a free antique dresser followed by immediately getting back online and saying “Honey, you gotta look at THIS freebie.” Followed by another about 40 or so mile round trip to get the antique wardrobe. A very good day in Craigslist world.

    Our house is 105-years-old and was on the verge of condemnation when we bought it. We refer to our restoration style as “eclectic Victorian broke hippies.”

    What probably doesn’t “help” our hoarding factor is that we own/are a renovation/restoration business. “You’re THROWING THAT AWAY!?!” “Um, let us take that ‘to the dump’ for you…”

    My screensaver: “Antiques—Grandma had it. Mama threw it away. I bought it back.”

    Yup.

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  16. Joanna Dragoun
    December 2, 2014 @ 11:01 pm

    Hilarious blog – I can totally relate!

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  17. Stacey
    January 30, 2015 @ 8:40 am

    I laughed so hard I almost peed myself! And my husband sends his sympathy’s to Paul. 🙂 I can’t wait to read your other posts.

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  18. Katarina
    February 2, 2015 @ 8:34 am

    This blog is amazing, almost like the wood in this bed 🙂

    I had bought queen mattress from 3mart.com.au in the last week, but if i have a bed like this i would think about king size 😀

    A bed for kings !

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  19. Kandi Latson
    February 7, 2015 @ 2:27 pm

    I love your thing about the bed experience, we have been renovaiting our really old house that was a toburculosis sanitariom from 1900 to 1930, for 20 years. It was a fun project but now my children are grown and not wanting a fixer upper, but their husband is and it’s really funny to here their wisdom flow out of their mouths about what it is like.

    Anyway, I really appreciate your husband, he reminds me of my awsome husband. His job is to figure out how to work on my projects, because they overwhelm me after a point, it’s a good thing he loves me. I am a stained glass artist/ repairer and he is a problem solver, so we are well matched.

    I shared your blog, it was great, it’s nice to know there are people out there like me that just love beautiful things and obsess over them.

    I love kitties too, I have four, Guss, Leroy, Calvin and Haddy, they watch me with much intensity.

    Kandi

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  20. UncuredObscurant
    March 5, 2015 @ 2:37 am

    Obviously you’re a pro, so you already know this-but that had me in stitches! Oh God. Gotta respect paul’s call….. your”empowered’ approach, and ghetto-rig swag IS interesting! Neo-Victorian, now comes with berets n etsy profiles 😉 nice dynamic with your hubby. 9 yrs married? May you have 9 more, and 9 after that, and well, you get the idea. Talk with one of these snotty french companies. LV just hired an American who used to be in Apple’s design dept. She is going to help integrate tech with fashion. Betond micronano supertronics, the big ccorps tend to fail @ social media. If you keep it real, they would probably like some kind of ‘social commentary’ like a literary product placement, n heck you’re not averse to pictoral saturation so like, get a syndication deal on! With podbay and rss or something. I’m saying this evn tho this my 1st time on this blog n I don’t be havin money for a GTFO whatever hobby (cuz thats what this hobby would b tellin my sparse funds lol). But for the sheer entertainment, this needs to be brought closer to the people. You could even do a ‘division of France’ infotainment spinoff. It’s all about your go gettem stratagem.

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