So, several of the weekend’s many projects are being derailed either by laziness or circumstances beyond my control. That’s o.k. – the naps have been splendid. I might still paint, though.
Anyway, pick a paint color.
by Lloyd 7 Comments
We have some projects on deck this weekend, and one of them was to find a solution for sliding out of our angled bed. It’s not so bad, but I’m a little concerned about what will happen to the heated mattress pad come wintertime. (I really have to dig my feet into the mattress to shove myself back up toward the pillow, and that worries me with electrical wires below.) Also, the mattress tends to slide down the box springs over the course of a week or so. We needed something that could brace the mattress and the people upon it.
So here’s the first prototype. It’s not actually the first design, since I was completely prepared to just drill through the L-brackets into the floor – right through the carpet and padding. I knew full well the screws would probably bind up, but the thing would be sturdy as heck.
But no – Lloyd saw me carry the wood, drill and L-brackets up from the basement through the dining room. Drat his sneaky eyes and his concern for resale value.
“Sheesh. What are you doing?” he sighed.
“Um….. laundry?”
Drat. Drat. Drat. He helped me carry stuff upstairs, talked me down from my instance on floor anchoring, and we tried a few different, yet less good, configurations. We settled on making an upside-down ‘T’. Part of it goes under the bed, the other part is the ‘floor’ for the L-brackets.
Now we have something to rest our feet on when we’ve slid down, so it’s a little like standing in bed.
Maybe sometime we’ll make a ‘pretty’ version – perhaps something more bench-like with proper in-floor support – but it’ll do for now.