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Sunday, November 1, 2009
Honestly just how hard can tweeking a bedroom be? Well, let me tell you - BLOODY HARD! The time line goes like this.
- Early 2009 MOTH surprises me by giving me the OK to retire our lovely old brass & iron bed for a whole new look.
- A couple of months spent looking, looking everywhere, the only bed I see I like is $4,500, MOTH goes grey when told, back to the drawing board.
- Decide I'll do the padded headboard look. Take whole lot of fabric samples home, spend a couple of weeks mulling over them & trying to get MOTH into the bedroom for 2 mins. to discuss options & gain approval of my choice.
- Decide on fabric, take samples back, ask my mate dear Char from Richfields Decor to come & measure up.
- My work heats up, some travel, many conferences, too busy for a few weeks to co-ordinate a time with Char.
- Then Char is snowed under at work, so can't meet up for a couple more weeks.
- Char returns 4 weeks ago, measures up, but as the current ensemble sits inside a frame, I need to dig out the original castors, take the ensemble out & put the old castors back on. Then she'll have to come back up for a final measure when the bed height from the floor is all correct. She's also doing a pleated valance in the same fabric as the headboard, so accurate measurement is crucial.
- Search high & low for a week for the castors. Can't find them anywhere, think I chucked them out. MOTH yells at me for being so silly as to not hold onto them unused for the past 14 years!.
- Stop in at Forty Winks to buy 12 new castors. They ask do I want a thin thread or a thick thread. Blank look from me. They tell me I need to go home & look on the ensemble to find the manufacturer's brand.
- Come home, next day struggle to lift huge King size mattress up & try & lever myself underneath it searching for the brand - can't. Remake entire bed as it's now a total shambolic wreck.
- Last Sunday ask MOTH to help me. He lifts up mattress, finds brand details, I hurriedly write them down.
- MOTH immediately whinges he doesn't want castors to go back on bed, reckons the bed will slide around everywhere. I try to explain that this won't happen on the carpet, but he's most unhappy.
- Last Thursday race back to Forty Winks, tell them the bed's manufacturer's details. They match up the castors, but I mentioned the issues with MOTH, so they suggest glides. Not castors but better. Take these home - I'm happy.
- Yesterday MOTH grumpy, but he eventually takes the whole bed apart. Turns ensemble base upside down, I race in all excited with the 12 glides. MOTH tries to screw the first one in, he yells at me that they are too thin & they are because I've been given the wrong ones!!!!
- Throw bag of glides back in my handbag for an exchange. Race up to computer, place an online ad. for old bed.
- Help MOTH carry old bed out into hallway & spend next hour cleaning it.
- Totally remake bed with MOTH, who grumbles that the bedroom looks bare with just the ensemble. Give him the Millie death stare.
- Collapse in a heap at 7p.m. quite teary & fed up with the whole thing. And to think the order hasn't even been started yet - grrrrrr!
- Race down the Freeway today & visit Forty Winks for the third time to exchange the wrong product for what will hopefully be the right one. Ring Char & try to rebook at time that's suitable for the both of us for a final measure. Lord give me strength to face the day.
Image: Chic Shack
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