Fibermania

Some Assembly Required

At last the new bed is assembled and it is the center piece in my design fantasy for Dave's new bedroom, upstairs in the guest room. How many rooms has he slept in? All of them. This was where he started out when we first moved in and now he's back.

It tooks us several weeks to gird our loins to put this bed together. We waited until the weather warmed up, in case we had enough energy left to remove the old bed to the garage. We didn't. Maybe we will today.

The ceilings are much lower in these upstairs rooms so we had to saw two inches off the uprights in order to clear the ceiling. It worked! This IKEA bed is very sturdy, no wiggling at all. It is yellow painted pine and happened to match an existing bedspread and pillow set. LUCKY.

That hanging paper lantern is temporary. It is lime green like the walls.

The new red chest that was in the dining area is perfect here. I never did put anything in the drawers, so I didn't have to switch it out any contents. And I just stuck those paintings up because there were already nails in the wall. They will be replaced with something more appropriate, later.

I surprised Dave with his own laptop, and I gave him a table just like mine, since I had two. The white chair and ottoman are for watching tv and reading and the black chair has a new home too.

This worked out so nicely and last night we also set up the dvd player in my room and watched a movie there for the first time. Very cozy.

Now we are going to empty the big back room and start figuring out what to do there. Thank heavens for Craig's List.