The New Headboard and King-Sized Bed, Baby

 

 

I can't believe that after all of my over-the-top excitement leading up to the purchase and delivery of our new mattress set and headboard I took so long to share the pictures and the finale to the story. 

 

Wah, wah, waaaaaaaaah.

 

In case you missed it and thoroughly enjoy reading posts about mattresses (c'mon, who doesn't?) here's the summary.

 

After Coopaloops was born, our queen-sized bed started to get crowded. Really crowded. Especially when a certain husband would let the dogs on the bed. (Against my wishes as I do not like fur on my pillow, thankyouverymuch.) We had talked about possibly upgrading to a king for a long time, but were pretty sure that a king-sized mattress and bedframe would not fit in our master bedroom.

 

After much deliberation and a trip to the mattress shack, we decided to go for it. You can read all about it in this post: From a Queen to a King.

 

After even more deliberation about what kind of headboard / bedframe to buy, we finally decided to go all out and purchase a white painted wood headboard. This was another upgrade from our cheapie metal Ikea bedframe. You can read all about that too: The Search for the Perfect Headboard.

 

Once we made the big purchase we had a crazy excited countdown until delivery. Even though I hate to admit this on the internet again, we were ultra pumped because we had been sleeping on a, like, 20 year old hand-me-down mattress from when we were in University. Shameful, yes I know.

 

So, we waited. We cleaned out our bedroom from top to bottom, disassembled our old bedframe, and moved the old frame and mattress set into storage in anticipation of the delivery and FINALLY a decent night's sleep.

 

And then.

 

And then.

 

And then the delivery dudes called to inform us that they were on their way to deliver our purchases but the box spring was a king and the mattress was a queen. It turns out the saleslady punched in the wrong number for the mattress. I got really frustrated and wrote a kind of angry, out-of-character-for-me post here: Mattress Mix-Ups Make Me Mad.

 

Okay whatever, I may have overreacted just a bit. You don't understand how squished I was on that old queen-sized bed. Every night was like a re-enactment from the movie Cliffhanger and not in a fun way.

 

So, how did the story end?

 

We waited an extra five days or so for another delivery. They came a day earlier than they originally said and brought an extra guy because they were worried that the king-sized mattress wouldn't make it up the stairs. I had to sign a waiver saying that if anything got damaged I wouldn't sue the store or anything which was completely fine by me. I just wanted a bed to sleep on instead of a camp-out on the floor which we had been having since the mix-up! The delivery team was able to get the box spring and mattress up the stairs no problem.

 

Note: Even despite the silly ordering mistake (everyone makes mistakes)(except me), everyone we dealt with, from the saleslady to the store manager to the delivery team, was really helpful and nice. 

 

Oh, I'm sorry. Did you say you wanted to see the pictures?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Obviously I need some bedding. And some window treatments. And closet doors. And a dresser. And pictures. And accessories. And an area rug.

 

But, it's looking good so far.

 

Can you believe that the king-sized bed doesn't seem too big? I think it's because we used to have the high, dark metal footboard that kind of closed off the room. I am so happy with our decision to skip the footboard this time and just get the headboard. It seems so bright and open now, even with a bigger bed!

 

And do you want to hear something even awesomer? The dogs haven't set a PAW on our new bed. We have two doggie beds now that we keep under the bed during the day and slide out at night. I love not eating dog fluff when I'm sleeping. It's the best!

 

:)

 

Kingsdown Mattress Set - Sears Home

Kasey Headboard - Sears Home

{Note: We ordered everything on Black Friday Weekend to take advantage of some great deals.}