Blog | New Beds!
While Nana and Poppa were visiting (and shortly before they arrived), Jason and I got to work finishing up the girls beds. A couple of weeks before they arrived, Jason and our friend Steve assembled the loft bed over the toddler bed. Before the loft bed was assembled:
After the loft bed was assembled:
Jason spent pretty much the whole weekend before they arrived filling nail/screw holes and sanding everything down to get it ready to paint. I forgot to take a picture of him all covered in saw dust…rats…But here is everything all ready to paint.
I took off Tuesday while Nana and Poppa were here and spent the whole day painting while they took care of the girls. Day 1 was just for the primer…
including all FOURTEEN slats supporting the loft platform…
About halfway through the day, Jason said: “you know oil-based paint doesn’t come off skin like water-based paint, right?” Uh, no…no I didn’t…I hadn’t ever used oil-based paint before…
Goo-gone works wonders…
I spent day 2 (I took off Thursday too) painting the real colors on (with water based paint this time). This was way more fun, as I could see how things were going to turn out. I originally swore I would only put one coat of brown on those blasted slats under the bed…but I just…couldn’t…let it go. One coat of brown just wasn’t enough, even if I was the only person who would ever see/notice it under that bed. I finished most of the major painting on Day 2, which left us with:
Days 3 and 4 (Saturday and Sunday), Jason and I both worked on touch up and cleanup (you can see in the photos above that the knobs on the murphy bed still need to be painted, and we needed to touch up where different colors are adjacent to each other). We also needed to paint the rim inside the Murphy bed and paint the brown stripe along the bottom. All of these little details took less actual time to do, but took more calendar time because we had to wait for things to dry. Anyway, it turned out GREAT! Voila!
We let it air out for a few days, and started putting the girls’ stuff back in the following weekend.
Each cross-stitched birth announcement Tatie Kat did for the girls is hung in the appropriate space. We still have a few touchup things to do (beanbag/cushion for B’s reading area (in the corner near the empty shelf, where she will store some books), secure the velcro to the murphy bed mattress so the mattress will stay attached to the murphy bed door, finish and hang the new curtain over the playroom door, actually put M in the murphy bed (see mattress issue), maybe put some rope lights under the loft base so M can have more light, etc., before we are fully done, but the hard work is over. YAY!
