And so to bed
It's here! The big bed c'est arrive. In 47,235 boxes, with 47,236 parts we're going to have fun putting this one together. And I guess there will be some more "French" spoken as we do so.
But will it look like this when it's finished?The intention is that we try and do it together. That alone may be a challenge, but I'm willing to try. Not least because if he gets involved in building his own bed he might just remember doing it, be willing to help his old man out doing other things, look after it, look forward to getting to sleep in it, any of or all of the above. Grandma & Grandad will be the last to have a night's board in the "guest room" this week, after that it's slumming in the "junk room".
The rebuilding plans have taken a new twist. MOTS wanted to call in at Sliderobes for a brochure (they didn't send one out when she filled in the request online, we assume due to lack of phone number and email address given - ie no contact for the hard sell), which we did when passing at the weekend. Ballpark figures? Midrange doors, with interiors? For a 1.5m length and a 2m length, £2,250 - £2,500 respectively. Yes, respectively - that's EACH. I nearly choked when I heard it. Someone is having a giraffe, and it wasn't me.
"Shall I arrange for a designer to come out?". Shall you fuck.
The little guy's new bedroom has the smaller wardrobe space just now, when the walls are removed it will give us approx 142cm of space - not enough for 150cm of IKEA kit as it would block the door from opening fully, and too much waste of space for 100cm of units. So when MOTS picked up a B&Q brochure that gives us an option of 135cm of units, and slightly taller into the bargain, we're back on for ripping out the built in stuff and going modular. Just need a joiner now to do the stud work and a plasterer to make good the scars left behind. Then get the units, which I guess will come in somewhere nearly a zero off the end of Sliderobbers. Then carpets, then redecorate, then new curtains as they won't go any more... Why are we doing this?
We're doing this for better use of space, that's the whole reason for juggling around in the first place, and for the boys of the house to build something big together. Our first joint DIY project. I'm really looking forward to it. So much so I might well be turfing Grandad out of bed on Saturday morning so I can get dismantling!
Comments
Your 3 year old son will have better DIY skills than my 35 year old husband b.t.w!!!!
Posted by: Sarah Gent | August 19, 2009 1:52 PM
My 3 year old has no DIY skills yet but is already ahead of Fudge "how many skips" Gent!
Posted by: Lee | August 19, 2009 6:07 PM
Unfair to Fudge Gent (comments) and desperately unfair to Grandad who needs his occasional lie in.
Another mischievous thought regarding skills learned - if the boy acts as your apprentice or the other way round during construction he might just remember (in reverse so to speak), how to DISMANTLE it on the sly!
Posted by: Snoopy | August 19, 2009 10:30 PM
the best way of getting grandad out of bed is to send in his favourite grandson
Posted by: grandma | August 20, 2009 7:54 PM