Adventures in the bedroom

It's not as fun as it sounds...

We were wandering around Costco Friday night and saw the perfect bed. It was everything we have been looking for in a bed. It's a California king sleigh bed, dark cherry... and best of all... way affordable. But it was the very last one. Since I'm not one to impulse drop a couple of hundred bucks on an impulse we went home. We checked around online for the brand and similar beds to see if it really was the amazing deal we thought. It was. Everything else we saw online was about 3 times as much.

So Saturday morning we head over there to get it. (Yay a bed!) Drag the thing upstairs and Larry puts it together. We go to lay the box spring in it and it doesn't fit. It's too wide. Well, crap! Come to find out that, despite what we have thought for years, we do not have a California King sized bed. We have a regular king size. Which explains why we can't keep sheets on the dang thing! Why that didn't raise a red flag a few years ago, I don't know.

So Larry comes up with the plan to buy a California king sized box spring and then just put our old mattress on it. It will be a little wide, and a little short, but not enough that it will really matter. Then we can buy a new mattress when we have the money. Fine, great.

Larry calls every mattress store in a 30 mile radius and not one has California king box springs in stock. So we decide to modify our current box spring to fit inside the new bed. And by modify I mean cut a two inch section out and then nail it back together.

So that's what Larry did. He took it into the garage and sawed and hammered for about an hour. Took it back upstairs and it fits. So now we have a king sized mattress in a Califoria king bed on a box spring that is neither. haha.