Our first nights.

Our first nights, well more like our first two weeks we found ourselves camping out in the living room on a mattress on the floor. It was fun, but it still wasn't a bedroom! This quickly made us decide to make our bedroom the first priority to accomplish. 

We went on a Nebraska Furniture Mart spending spree! 
We picked out this amazing kick ass beautiful oak bedroom set. It had hidden doors and drawers in all the different pieces. Laying on the bed in the middle of the Mart made you forget there was a mustached middle aged man, trying to convince us to buy every warranty on everything.  We anxiously waited the two weeks for the big ol' truck to roll up. The moving guys came into see what kind of obstacles they were going to need to tackle. By this point we had figured out how the whole house was going to be set up, we had decided to make the whole third floor into a super master suite. Rick had me up my cute girl act and tucked $100 bucks in my back pocket to try and bribe the guys to get all the stuff up to the third floor. These dudes, took one look at the 3rd floor stairs and told us no way no how, unless we sign a contract making them free and clear of any damages they make to our house and the furniture.

This is when I began to pout and try to understand that this borderline royal barbie dreamhouse bedroom set was not going to happen. The movers explained that an option was to knock out windows and get a cherry picker and bring it all in though the windows. We've been planning on getting new windows, but just not that soon. So they hauled all of the furniture into our garage to sit and think about what we were going to do.
It took us about 6 hours to realize a few things. 
1. Renting a cherry picker and movers to get this stuff through third floor windows was going to add even more money to this adventure.
2. We spent ALOT of money on this stuff.
3. Our bedroom was going to be all the way up on the third floor. People can't look up from the entry way and see the third floor, all they can see is the second floor rooms. 
4. Why the hell should we have super fancy furniture for no one to see?

So, a phone call two days later, we set up a day for them to pick everything up and send it back to the warehouse and refund us. A couple of days later, we had an empty garage, a truck bed of lumber, new mattresses delivered and a brand new fridge!  All for less than a third of the cost of the original bedroom set. 

We can't fit any mattress up the third floor stairs larger than a full size, which was a bit of a squeeze. So we bought a twin and a full size mattress, made our own bed frame and eventually make our own headboard and find equally as cool and cheap nightstands. (IKEA?)

Also, if you ever find yourself at Nebraska Furniture Mart, put your blinders on and walk with your head down straight to the 'knick, dent, and scratched' department. About 90% of my NFM furniture is from there and I can't find what is wrong with it! We headed over to the appliance dent and scratched section and found an AWESOME fridge for a grand less than original asking price because there are two little dent's. One on the side of the door and one on the lower right side of the door. SOLD. 

I just had to convince this set of movers to take off the doors and let me rip out part of a door frame to get it into the kitchen. 

Now the fun starts, the sledge hammer is introduced to me. 

-Allie