Iron beds finally arrived

As soon as our lake house cleared the inspection period, I promptly ordered five iron beds from a British-based company. Silly me didn't realize they were considered custom and thus had to be made, then shipped across the pond to clear customs and get delivered. This process from order to delivery took exactly three months. 

I spent almost three hours from start to finish to get the first bed put together Monday evening. These beds were realllllllly well packed for shipping, protected by both styrofoam and wool around the matte black powder coated iron. It takes a solid fifteen minutes just to get the headboard, footboard and rails unpacked. But the first bed was way more time-consuming because I had to do it by myself. The next morning I hired a next door neighbor's college age daughter to help me put the rest of the beds together, and that was definitely the way to go.

I gathered up all of the packing "guts" as I worked, easily filling up five large bags. So I've been placing multiple contractor-sized bags out at the curb for trash pick up this week. Now I just need to finish breaking down all of the boxes for them to dispose of, too. As you can imagine, I'm beyond thrilled to be sleeping in a real bed instead of on a mattress on the floor as I've been doing since we bought the lake house.