Brad is coming to town Thursday, and ever since Lloyd’s brothers visited, we’ve been sleeping in Brad’s room. Now it’s time for us to move back to our own bed. (I haven’t slept in our bed since before Christmas.)
We’ve been toying with several methods of how to achieve slantiness – diagrams have been drawn, prototypes have been considered, and bed frames have been window-shopped. On Saturday we were determined to just get this done. After Brighton’s birthday party we went to a couple of furniture stores.
Lloyd thought we could just get a basic under-bed frame, but those don’t have a way to hold onto the box spring so it wouldn’t slide off. Also, we have the complication of having a split box-spring. When we first moved into this house, the box spring to our full-size bed had to be dismantled to get it up the narrow stair opening. When we bought a queen-sized bed, we had to order a split box-spring. That’s more than you wanted to know, isn’t it?
Anyway, after much hemming and hawing, we decided to go the cheap-o route and just attach the two box springs together (boards screwed into the bottom) and prop one end up on cinder blocks. Personally, I don’t like how it looks AT ALL, but it’s good enough until we can figure out something two years from now later.
We had to remove the captain’s bed drawers and move them into Brad’s room. Their configuration is still in flux, but that’s a post for another day.