An Adult Bed!

HURRAY!! Shane and I have FINALLY purchased for ourselves a new bed and not just any bed, but a KING size bed! Since we have been married, which is now 5 1/2yrs, we have been sleeping on a Full size bed. (the gasps are audible) Every time I tell someone what size bed we sleep in they cannot believe it. Till now we just have never had the resources to be able to purchase a new bed and also since we were in apartments and didn't know now long we were going to be in each (which ended up being a year for the first 2 and 2yrs for the third apartment) we didn't want to keep moving it and didn't know if it would always fit in the apartment we had since more than just bedroom furniture had to go in it. Also, another reason and maybe the main reason why we had a full size is because we didn't have to purchase the frame. I was given a bedroom set by my grandmother (bed frame, vanity and dresser) It was a set she had in her house that I always loved and so it was given to me. Now, when you are newly married and don't have to drop major dollars on furniture when you don't have major dollars to drop its a big plus, so we decided to make do with what we had. (for a while in our early parts of marriage the only couch we had and a futon that made a twin size and it was more like a lounge chair than couch and low to the floor) For the early years of our marriage we seemed to do fine with the Full size. Hey, it was cozy and we were newly married....

But things needed to change as the years went on. We weren't getting the rest we needed and I was having back problems. I go to a chiropractor, but I knew that part of it was from not getting a good night's sleep because I don't move and lay in a position that was comfortable for my back.

So, on New Year's Eve (because American Furnture Warehouse was having a sale) we went out and purchased a King Size bedframe! And on Saturday, Jan. 2nd we went to Denver Mattress and purchased the mattress. We decided to get a bit more expensive mattress because of my back problems and we knew that we wanted it to last. It's called the "Madison" for anyone who wants to know and it has individually wrapped coils and its a plush mattress. It is super comfy, I LOVE sleeping on it and helps decrease movement felt when either one of us rolls over. I have noticed since sleeping on it that I don't mind sleeping a majority of the night on my side. I am usually a side and stomach sleeper, but since I can't sleep in my stomach because of Baby Declan growing, than I am limited. I don't feel the pressure points in my hip and shoulders. Our old mattress was a firm, which I used to like and Shane can sleep on anything, but not anymore. It seems to be really true that having children does change your body. So, our whole bed was together by Wed. Jan 7th, seems to be the day of new beds for the O'Berry family!! When we had decided that this was going to be the year (well, 2008 was when we decided and it was a Christmas present to ourselves, but we didn't get it till the beginning of the year) I had found a bedding set at Kohls that I LOVED, so we purchased that early and had it ready by the time we got our bed. And than just this past weekend we went to Bed, Bath and Beyond and got curtains to match the comforter, so I really feel like we have an adult bedroom. We are still using the antiuqe dresser and the vanity (not in yet), but we are starting slow (and couldn't get everything) but its a start and of course it's the most important piece. The bed does take up a majority of the room and it may look a little furniture heavy, but we really wanted the King size bed and felt that a queen just didn't seem that much bigger than the full we were currently sleeping on. We are SO incredibly happy with the King size and also with the bedframe we got. I have to thank Shane for the bedframe choice. I liked it in the store, but was really looking at a sleigh bed and had a lattice work on it (we knew we wanted something more open in the frame since the room is smaller for a master bedroom. Shane really liked this one and I said that was fine and part of it was due to the price difference between the two beds. (that just shows also a difference in our personalities, but I was being practical too) Once this bed go into the room I was SO happy with it! It works great with the size of our room. The sleigh bed would have stuck out a bit too much and we wouldn't have had the space needed at the end of the bed to put the dresser and vanity. Since this one had flat, straight edges it is able to go directly against the wall and the footboard doesn't stick out as high or deep, just straight across.

The vanity isn't in the room yet, it will be back in our bedroom after Declan is about 3months old (we thought why put it in when it's going to have to be moved out), since we need the space for the pack-and-play which in will sleep in in our room for a while (I like the newborns being in our room for a few months and than move him into his own room).