Be Our Guest

Of all the "rules" I looked at on Pinterest, Houzz, etc, when we were building our house this was the tip worth saving, especially because mattresses, box springs, and frames come in variable heights and it can be confusing what to buy. Plus our old bed was too tall (read: I had to massage my small breed dog's spine and give her liquid hydrocodone because she jacked her back from jumping down so far) and I wanted to fix things.

This is my dream bedroom, ripped out of a magazine six years ago, and copied the best I could for our guest room (obviously there are no wood floors or sisal rugs in our basement). I still need a headboard, but that's a "Z priority" as my dad would say. Sorry, guests. I looked for a side table like this and personally scrolled through 700 tables before I gave up. That thing must have been custom. We got a medium-firm mattress from Saatva and all made up it's 25" tall, which does feel right. We insulated the walls and ceiling so guests wouldn't wake up to our scary sounds in the next room (two furnaces, water softener) or above the room (two crazy boys, one mild daughter). A blackout roller shade lets anybody sleep as long as they need to. It's like a bunker down there. I actually love when Greg is sick and I sleep down there. RE and Archer have started having Friday night sleepovers in the guest room, too.