Buying A Bed Frame From Ikea: a house log

After over two weeks of doing it, sleeping on the floor is officially getting old.

So we picked up a bed frame. Oh glad day! We had big plans for possibly building one (using one of Ana White’s remarkable walkthroughs). And we debated simply getting a cheapo-metal frame and laying slats of wood across it so we could rest our mattress on that (so we could Hands-on another upholstered headboard down the road). But in the end the four poster bed that caught our eye back when we whipped up this future bedroom mood board won out (click here for more mood board details).

One of the issues is that our organic mattress (which you can read about here and here) is especially thick and made of extra dense all natural latex rubber. So as I have weirdly described it before, it is heavier than thirty dead people. To this comment John consistently responds: “How would you know that? Even serial killers do not attempt to carry thirty bodies at once.” So although I will specify that I have not in fact carried thirty dead people, the mattress is as heavy as I would imagine that scenario to be. Seriously, it weighs a ton. Which is why we worried that a normal metal frame meant to hold a boxspring and a regular (much lighter) mattress would not exactly adapt quite well to wood slats and a box-springless especially heavy mattress. And the idea of buying a $600+ organic boxspring to make a low-cost-o metal frame work swiftly became a not-so-low-cost-o solution, so we tossed out that possibility as well.

It certainly would have been lively (and kinda romantic) to build a bed frame together like our Bower buddies, but our aching backs won out and we chose we were done with sleeping on the floor. Over it. Seriously spent. Imagine Ben Stiller emphatically saying “I am wrapped up with the checking of the bags conversation” to that flight attendant in Meet The Parents. That is how emphatically those last few sentences should be read. Warning: Ben tosses out a the word beeyotch (without all the eee’s) at the end of this clip in case you are at work/with a tot.

And with the chaos of the holidays, bed-building simply was not going to happen for another week or so. Which is how we got to the purchase of our new queen sized white Ikea four poster bed. And since his official Ikea name is Edland, we like to affectionately refer to him as Ed.

But right now he’s looking like this in our house:

Here is hoping he’s not too hard to assemble and can handle the weight of thirty dead bodies. We will be back with pics when he’s all set up after some not-floor sleeping (we are gonna give him a test run and tell you all about the comfort-factor tomorrow).