Bedroom Reno Part 5 – In Our Bedroom Again!

Well we are back in our bedroom again!  It’s all sort of make-shift at the moment but that’s how it goes when you are renovating.

I took this photo last night before crawling into bed.  As you can see we have our bed together finally, and a nice big new mattress on top.  We had to get a new mattress because the new bed is harder than our old one and made us realize just how crap our old mattress was.

The only problem is we went to a full support mattress from a NO support mattress, so I kinda feel like I’m sleeping on top of a brick.  Hopefully I will get used to it in time, but either way it’s nice to not feel the springs anymore.

One down side, the new mattress is thicker so none of our old sheets fit.  I just happened to have this sheet tucked away in a cupboard still in the package.  It’s an Ikea sheet so I guess it makes sense that it fits an Ikea mattress.  Clever of them to make it that way though, their own sized mattresses so you kind of have to buy their sheets.

Now I just have to get some that actually match the decor.   For now I’ll just deal with it.

Today we spent the day clearing out our storage room because ‘grofvuil’ is coming tomorrow.  That’s the big garbage guys that you have to make a special appointment with.   It’s pretty cool though and saves you having to go to the dump.  You just find out what day they can come and haul all your old junk out to the curb.   We managed to clear a lot out, which is great, but it was really tiring.   That was just getting it outside of our storage room… tomorrow we have to haul it up the stairs from the basement and get it outside. Ugh!

Thankfully, we managed to pawn a lot of the stuff off on our new upstairs neighbours.  Yeah, I forgot to mention we have new people living upstairs!  The asshole neighbour’s flat has been occupied now for the last few months by a couple of mysterious Mongolians.  They don’t speak English or Dutch so communication can be difficult, but we manage.   We noticed them carrying one of our old mattresses in the last time we threw out a load of stuff, which clued us in that they probably don’t have a lot at the moment.  Today we told them we were going to throw out more stuff tomorrow so they went through it all and took a lot of it, including our old decrepit mattress.   Tomorrow we are disassembling a cabinet from our spare bedroom and are bringing it up to them.

Hopefully tomorrow after we take out all our garbage we will still feel like mounting our new headboard.  Then I can stop using an Albert Heijn crate as a bedside table.

Oh yeah, and yes I do sleep with a teddy and I am not ashamed!  I know you saw it in the photo and wondered.  His name is Turk Turkleton and I love him. Thankyouverymuch.