By accident, we found the secret to cheap mattresses on the east coast. We’d been to Sleepy’s (massive east coast mattress chain) at least three times in search of a queen for our master bedroom, but when everything decent is over a $1000, nothing ever seemed comfy enough. We’d been sleeping on our old double in the guest bedroom while we hunted, but it had been three months and I was starting to get antsy. We were driving home from Vermont a couple weeks ago and when I saw the umpteenth Sleepy’s, I made Mike pull over. Little did we know, we had selected one of the few outlet Sleepy’s in Hudson county.
They don’t even list them on their website, but if you call a Sleepy’s in your area, they can refer you to the closest discount store. They apparently have dozens.
Our bed is last years model of the Kingsdown BodyBlend and we love it!!! It was $700 down from $2600. Soft but supportive, I highly recommend it and never paying full price for a mattress.
I recently found the perfect bed frame at IKEA—or so I thought. I spotted it across the showroom floor: simple white, feminine shape, and IKEA-inexpensive. Then I came closer. The frame had massive carved tulips and hearts all over it! Shocked, slightly disgusted, and totally disappointed, we moved on to the next aisle. As Mike and I rounded the corner, I took one last look at the over-sized child’s bed and noticed it was smooth on the back. Hmmmm. What if we could built it inside out? No one would have to see the pre-school graffiti and we’d have the simple bed I thought it was. It was a gamble but we bought it and started building.
In a few years, I’m sure well have built up an ornament collection with a few Waterfords, but in the name of good friends and the first Christmas in our new home, I’ll always keep a few computer paper snowflakes.
Of all our weekends doing house projects, nothing has fueled more productivity than our house warming last weekend. We sent out the Evite a month in advance and that party date acted as our deadline to wrap-up our half-finished DIY endeavors. A flurry of building, hanging, and cleaning ensued but the item we are most excited to have ticked off the list is undoubtedly the window frames.
In digging through years of photos, we skipped over the posed shots and compiled our best collection of art, adventure, and laughs. We printed the pictures at home, cut them to size with a paper cutter, and taped them into each pane. We hung each on either side of our living room archway and they have made me smile every day since.