New Bed to No Bed
Posted on August 20, 2006 | Filed Under Family, Home
Last weekend, Laura and I went out and bought a new bed. King sized. The potential to be the bed of all beds. We’re very excited.
Laura’s parents wanted our old one, so they came and picked it up with a truck at about 4 today. What a great idea that was…
The bed delivery got get here at around 5, take one look at the staircase, and say that they’d have to break the bed to fit it up the stairs. We bring it back up the alleyway and give it a try anyway (hey, it’s their job). If not for the very top step, it would fit just fine. They can bend it a bit more, but due to a tough wire along the perimiter of the bed it would be irrecoverably busted. Not wanting to lose the warantee on a bed that we might want to send back anyhow — I think it’s too firm, but I was willing to give it a test drive — I sent it back since i didn’t want to sign a waiver.
So, we’re without a bed for at least a week. We’ve got the futon, but after 7 months of use as my bed before Laura moved over, it’s already hard as a rock.
I guess our options are:
1. Get a smaller bed. I suspect that a Queen’s shortest dimension is the same as a King, though.
2. Get a matress without the hard perimiter wire (probably results in a softer matress, i don’t know). Maybe they’ll give us a trade-up? Sucks that they close on 5 on a Sunday and it’s just past 5 that they delivered it.
3. Get 4-5 friends to hoist it up to the deck with a good deal of rope, after having disassembed the planters and covered the wood panelling in cardboard to prevent tearing. That is, if the downstairs neighbours allow us to use their patio for an hour or so.
1 is cheaper, but possibly just as intractible. 2 probably involves going into the store during the daytime to try more beds. 3 begs me to release the inner engineer (Luke’s rope-fu is strong… perhaps he can help).
We could call 3 an Amish Bed Raising ;).
Well… we’ve got at least one sleepless night ahead to ponder the posibilities.
~j
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…Having had a very similar problem with a boxspring in the townhouse I was living in, I almost considered pulling the darn thing apart to get it around the corner. I ended up deciding that since it was afterall a rental, I could probably live a year without the boxspring.
And then, I ended up selling the bed anyhow! I think #3 is a great option if it works! Heck, think of the blog post and representative photos you could take. Lots of bragging rights, for sure.
Good luck!