Out with the old Ikea in with the new… Ikea…..

After our honeymoon Noble and I decided there was NO WAY we were going to make it as a couple if we had to continue to sleep in my “too soft” queen sized bed. (This was coming from a man who had a full size bed most of his life) I had a MALM bedroom set from IKEA with a Serta mattress that had seen better days before the skylight leaked in my old apartment and destroyed the core support of it. It sunk in the middle and I was fine with that as Kaeda and I slept in a ball on the center anyway.

As I grew up and I moved from Atlanta to Dallas,  I found that IKEA did not transport well, nor is it made for the long haul of life. This was something Hubby and I discussed before we even started the bedroom furniture hunt. We agreed - No IKEA, we wanted grown up furniture that was taller than 6” off the ground.  We looked at every furniture store in North Dallas and after deciding we were too logical (read cheap) to spend $8,000.00 on a bedroom set and determined that it would not be wise to put ourselves into debt the first month of marriage we drove to the old faithful of economical furniture, IKEA (only after we returned to Macy’s and bought our Serta Icomfort Mattress  - No really it is life changing, go get one .. NOW.)

My old Malm set and Niko the Bed Hog.
It was too low to the floor and WAY to soft

  
We tromped through IKEA following their directional arrows looking at the different living areas they had on display. I wanted something "java or espresso" colored and made of real wood which was not likely. Hubby likes anything black. He walked up to a bed while I was looking at something else came back over to me and said he thought he may have found "the bedroom set." I was terrified I would turn around and it would be possibly gloss black, it turned out to be an awesome mix of medium brown and black stain on ACTUAL wood. Not the regular laminate that IKEA is famous for. We priced it out and came in just under a grand for the entire set! Bed, Side tables, Dresser, and Chest of Drawers. We were sold! 

The Hemnes Bed

Our next challenge was to get it home. I drive a Mazda Rx-8, Hubby drives a MazdaSpeed3. Neither car was going to even come close to holding the boxes for the furniture. So we did what any newly married couple would do. We called my mom who has a Ford Edge. I was surprised when I saw all of the boxes go into the Edge and then the hatch closed, the thing doesn’t look that big!!!! Mom saves the day and our night, since we had already dismantled our current bed – opps!

The Boxes (3 of 8)

We made it home, unloaded boxes and began assembling our new bed. Surprisingly the real wood stuff is easier to assemble than the laminate furniture. It felt much more solid and best yet… it was much taller and adult looking.

Hubby adding last piece of foundation

It didn't take very long to throw it together but we were both pretty exhausted after dealing with IKEA on a weekend!