My New Bed

This is one of my older blogs from another site....my "new" bed is 2yrs old now.

A while back I saw someone have a bed picture on their blog and it was a beautiful bed. I made a note to blog about mine after that. Beds have so much meaning in our lives. Its where we rest and dream and make love and play and watch tv or read. Some are just lucky to have one. Others are lucky to have their dream bed. Some sleep alone by choice or by accident and some love that, some hate it. Beds affect our lives so much. If its uncomfy you don't sleep well and it affects your whole day. So I thought I would tell about mine today and why I bought this particular beauty.

I was married before and am now divorced. I was married for 30yrs and I slept in a canopied king size waterbed for the last 25 yrs. My ex and I bought that old bed for our 10th anniversary. At the time she was a beauty and the bed of my dreams. In fact I loved it so much that I wanted it when I left him. It was that much a part of me. I lived 9mon. in other places without that bed till things were finalized and I sure missed it. It was a king size waterbed. But that wasn't all ....it had a shadow box canopy with a lg. mirror on it and the headboard was mirror backed book shelves. I could live in there. It was like a cocoon wrapped around me. I love to read too so I kept all my favorite books right there. It was truly the only piece of furniture I would have fought for in the divorce.

I finally got it and set it up in the new home I bought. It made me feel like I was home ,,,,,,,,finally. A couple yrs after I moved in here I met my bf. I don't think he ever really liked a waterbed but he of course had no choice if he was living with me. But over time the waterbed started to bother our backs. I loved getting into a warm bed like this tho on cold nites. It started getting really hard for me now that I'm older....to make the bed too. Try lifting heavy corners of water bed when you need to tuck things in to stay. If you didn't do that then by morning many things were a mess and you had to remake the bed daily. I'm getting old here and with my back bothering me and arthritis starting in my hands , I began to hate making that bed.

One morning we woke up and I noticed the sheet edge felt damp. I looked around the bed and didn't see anything or feel anything else. I ignored it. Several times more that happened and I couldn't find the source of the leak. Finally one morning we woke and the whole side of the bed that was in the frame was wet, everything was soaked. We knew the time had come to get a new mattress. We had been discussing getting at least a new mattress for awhile so when that happened we knew it was time.

That day we went out shopping for one. There's a place here that if you order before 2pm you can get it the same day so we did that. We found one we liked and it was one of those deep mattresses. Went home to tear the old bed apart so they could take the mattress and get it ready for them. (Boy buying a mattress is hard, there's so many choices!)

They came, took the old one, set up the new one in the old waterbed frame. I was already thinking about getting a new bed but didn't know what I wanted yet so I thought this set up would do. It didn't. I put the bed back together with new linens and such, hopped on the bed and laid there. My bf came in and asked me what I'm doing. I said trying the bed out and he laughed. When I decided to get up I realized if I sat up I could touch the canopy top . With the waterbed frame so high off the floor and the depth of the new mattress, there wasn't much room anymore between me and the canopy! This wouldn't do so the hunt for a new bed was on.

I wandered all over the area looking for a bed. At this point for me I had decided this is probably the last bed Ill ever own at my age (54 at the time) so its gonna be my dream bed and the cost be damned. I looked online too at furniture manufacturing co. and such. Found one I sort of liked for the price but I still wasn't happy. I liked the style but not the wood. I love oak furniture and I have oak dressers in my room and this really wouldn't have gone great with them. Now there is an Oak Warehouse near me here and that's where I bought several pieces for my house and I loveeeeee them all. So I decided to check them out and if I couldn't find what I wanted I would buy the other bed . But I got lucky.......

My daughter said I wouldn't find what I wanted there, that they didn't carry this style of stuff there. But I found out they are expanding what they carried. This company builds beds one at a time. They are hand carved, signed and numbered too! Well that was right up this collectors butt cuz I collect antiques and art too. The bed you see here is the one I finally picked. The style was very much like the other one of the wrong color wood I was considering. I loveeee the high headboard so much like antique beds of old. And the footboard is shaped like the other bed I was considering. The carving is so deep and beautiful, I just love to touch this bed. This was the one, I ordered it and sat back to wait the 6-8wks it took, it was gonna be worth it!

Now things here with the bf are looking good every day, better and better and that bed was expensive. But I had decided it was time to let go of the old.........the old bed, the old stuff from 30yrs of living. I have a new man, a new life and it was time to have a new bed. OUR bed, the one we will share for the rest of our lives.

So that's what you see up there, I love roses too and my bedroom is filled with them. Its a girly room but I don't care. Took me awhile to be comfy tho. I missed that canopy so much. It hugged me for so many nites and I could feel its arms missing. But the truth is , it hugged me thru many lonely nites with the ex on the road and his indifference to me over the yrs. My bf isn't like that. Our favorite time of day is when we go to bed. We fall asleep in each others arms every nite. I now have real hugs.