jaunthie | A new bed - and what a bed!

For as long as I've owned any furniture worth the name, I've always had a requirement that said furniture be something that I can move myself, if only so much as to clean underneath it, and a strong preference for furniture that I can actually dismantle and move by myself (room to room or residence to residence).

fisherbear has much the same preference, so our furniture has remained largely modular and moveable - or, in the case of our old bedframe, not really much of anything at all. For years we've been using just the simple metal frame our matresses came with (no headboard, no footboard, propped up on raisers) because we could never find anything we both liked.

And then, last month, out of the blue, we found The Bed. We found a bedframe that truly and really appealed to both of us: high off the ground, no awkward corners to bump into, attractive clean lines. We placed our order, and the bed was finally delivered yesterday. We expected to be putting it together from small and smallish pieces, but nooo...the headboard and footboard came already assembled.

Did I mention this is a modern take on the classic four-poster bed?

The headboard and footboard boxes were GIGANTIC - not to mention an adventure to unpack. We have enough broken-down styrofoam to fill multiple industrial garbage bags, and enough cardboard to turn my entire back lawn into a giant raised bed, should I so choose. Assembling the few pieces (attaching side rails and slats) took far longer than it really should have, thanks to a few shoddily-placed holes (we had to drill one out) and the challenge of balancing these giant pieces while screwing/bolting/manuvering the other pieces in place. But finally, about one in the morning, we had the bed assembled, in place, and made up. We crawled into it and collapsed - but I, for one, had a great (if short) night's sleep.

Wow.

There's still bits and pieces to finish (hang art, find new window treatments, replace the bench with something that goes with the new decor, put new knobs on the dresser drawers), but I'm pretty pleased. Exhausted, but pleased, and looking forward to sleeping in the new bed for a little longer tonight.

Oh, and for the record - all that and 4.69 miles, too.