Vermont
The girls and I are in Vermont for the weekend while Alan is back home with the dog and cats. Why? Because even though he has today off, he’s working tomorrow. Army recruiters working on Veterans Day. And not even for a parade or some kind of event. That makes complete sense, right?
The girls love playing with Muppet and Grumpy, but Pippa got a bit tearful at bedtime. Even though we stayed here over the summer, she says it doesn’t feel like home. Fair point, really, since it isn’t home. My parents and I talked about making their room more friendly and homey, but my dad couldn’t get any traction on selling the rope bed that’s in their room now. So he just sort of dropped it. Originally we were going to get the low Ikea loft bed and choose some cute linens so it was more “theirs.” I’d like to actually do it. Right now, with Pippa in the big rope bed and Anika in a camp bed, it feels like Ani is an afterthought. And the rope bed takes up a stupid amount of space in the room. The room isn’t huge and has sloped ceilings, and the height of the bed and posts means it’s pushed pretty far into the floor space.
Honestly, I’d sell nearly every antique in the house without a second thought. Useless furniture is a pet peeve of mine.
~Liz
just googled “rope bed”
ah, parent houses… just wait until it will be your job to empty it all out.
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I too had to google rope bed. Why would this bed take up more room than any other bed?
It’s a full-sized bed, but a very small room. It’s also taller than average with posts. And the ceiling slopes, so there’s actually a big gap and it takes up a lot more floor space than a lower bed that could tuck further into the slope of the ceiling. Even though the posts are touching the slope, there’s completely unused floor space below that roughly the width of a twin mattress.
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