The bedroom we were using isn't tiny, but our king bed is huge and took up so much of the room. I had to turn to the side to get between the bed and wall on my side.
When we bought our bed about 5 years ago, we had to purchase a new mattress set. We bought a solid latex mattress, which is well worth every penny we paid for it, but it is a nightmare to move. There is nothing rigid about it and it is just dead weight. You'd think that for what we paid for that monster, the factory could have installed handles or something like that. I almost don't think that would work because it is soooo heavy - they would probably be ripped off. Words cannot describe how difficult this thing is to move. When we moved it out of the house in Tifton to my grandmother's house in Nashville before we moved it to Atlanta, we had 4 people helping, and we still had a lot of trouble. When we moved it to the moving truck for the drive to Atlanta, I decided that we should try to roll it and use rope to tie it and use the dolly to move the huge roll. This worked much better than just trying to drag it, but it was still hard. One person pushed the dolly while 3 people walked on the remaining 3 sides to keep it from dragging the ground.
We get the headboard and footboard moved and the rails installed (with help from Grant since the headboard and footboard require someone supporting them so they don't fall and turn you into mush. They're kind of big, too. The headboard is just under 7' tall, so it barely fits through door openings.
We get that monster of a mattress on the boxsprings and the room is pretty much finished after we make the bed. Yay!
We're trying to decide what to do for night stands. We never bought night stands to match the bed (kind of expensive) and they've stopped making this particular bed. We can always find something and stain it to match, so this isn't a huge issue with either of us. For now, we're just using the old ghetto fabulous ones we've had for years. They don't match each other or the bed and are just ugly, but they work. We also have pretty lamps that look great with our bed linens.
We are both so amazed with the amount of space we have in the new room. It's huge compared to our old room at this house. It's even larger than the master bedroom at our house in Tifton.
We're not exhibitionists - we did move the curtains from the old bedroom to the new one.
The ceiling fan. Looks are deceiving. It's pure EVIL!
Justin and I aren't fans of bed skirts or dust ruffles. I am a huge Martha Stewart fan ("It's a good thing.") and she suggests using fitted sheets over the boxsprings in lieu of bed skirts and dust ruffles. This makes cleaning under the bed easier, too.
This is the ceiling fan remote. It can be easily removed from the wall, but the wall holder is pretty convenient, too.
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