Monday through Wednesday: Finally!!! When I moved into my little Beach House back in 2012, I never really used the "spare room" as a second bedroom. Why? Well ... I didn't have any extra beds to put in it ... AND I had too many toys! I figured I would just use it as a TOY ROOM until I figured out what to do with it.
Years went by and I never really changed anything in that little room. It remained a toy room and it was handy to have it ... but it never felt like a REAL room. I stored extra "stuff" in the closets back there, etc. and it was just a catch-all kind of room.
I had wanted to make it a nice room when Emma moved in--to make it more "homey" for her; but she didn't seem to want me to do that. She had her double bed in there and I cleared out a few drawers in the dresser that was in there for her use, and I emptied out (as much as possible) one of the closets so that she could use it for storage. But ... it wasn't pretty. Besides, Belle's litter box had to be in that room so that the little kids wouldn't "get into it" and also I didn't want to deal with it in any way, shape or form (the litter box).
But Emma moved out a few weeks ago now. I miss her. I hope she is doing well. I hope she makes good decisions with buying a house and who she will share the house with, etc. I love her very much.
I decided to make the second bedroom into a SECOND BEDROOM (duh!). Why not put bunk beds back there? How would I decorate it? Like a little kid's place, or ... why not continue the nautical theme I love so much? So, my brain got to working on the possibilities and I want to show you how it turned out.
I was super pleased that the bunk beds arrived exactly when they said! Wayfair shipped them in ONE box, and it arrived Monday afternoon. The box weighed close to 100 pounds, so Terry came over and we tried to lift it into the house together. The delivery man had placed the box on the side of my porch stairway. After an initial attempt to lift it, Terry had the great idea to open the box and take separate parts of the bed inside instead of lifting the entire thing in one box. So, that's what we did! Oh my! I should have taken a picture of all of the parts strewn across the main room of my little house!
On Tuesday, Ruthanne and Terry came over at about 10:30 in the morning and we all worked on assembling the beds. Most of the work was accomplished by Terry. Ruthanne and I simply handed pieces or held things in place as they were being attached. The instructions/directions were not the best--thankfully, Terry is an engineer and understands picture directions far easier than either Ruthanne or I do.
The lighthouse quilts arrived Tuesday afternoon! They hadn't promised them until Friday, at the earliest, and even said it might be as late as mid-October before they would show up. I LOVE them!
The beds were packaged amazingly, as well as the mattresses! It was crazy getting it all put together, and I never would have accomplished this in any way, shape, or form without Ruthanne and Terry.
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