I've never slept so well

We finally have a real bed again! Not long after we got married, we bought a king-size foam mattress (Best. Decision. Ever.) but we didn't have a bed frame for it. Tim being the ingenious man that he is, designed a bed frame for us. He planned it out, calculated the measurements, bought the wood from the lumber yard he used to work for in California, spent a day cutting it with his brothers, and bit by bit, Tim put it together with lots of help from his brother Rob. They ran into all kinds of hitches, mainly a lack of tools and work space, but it's finally and beautifully done!

The final putting-together process:





And here's the finished product! (Ignore the mess on the dressers.)



I am so incredibly proud of Tim. He worked so hard and it paid off so much more incredibly than I imagined it would. (He's definitely the visionary in our family.) He calculated and re-calculated to make sure that the corners would fit exactly (and they did!) and even made plans to add drawers under the frame eventually. I love that he used a clear varnish so we could enjoy the beautiful natural maple wood.

And I'm so grateful for Paul and Rob for taking a whole day to help him cut all the wood, and especially grateful to Rob for seeing the job through to the end. Rob bought or helped buy most of the tools and was pretty much indispensable. We are so lucky to have such awesome brothers!