Yesterday was a light day at ole' Sunnyside, Greg and I were still smarting over the No on 1 vote and wanted to just spend some time together, counteracting what the religious right was saying about gay relationships. We decided to move beds around, mostly to get the space we need upstairs to start the demolition process. I thought it would take about an hour. We found that one Queen bed was old and should just go to the dump and we found that the King bed was nice and that we could use it at our own house. We found someone who wanted our own bed, a four year old memory foam King, so we were going to bring that to Belfast.
No sweat, I thought. I was wrong! After measuring, we figured that the previous owners had brought both beds in through the window openings when they replaced the windows upstairs!

So, first we ripped out the bulkhead for the stairs. We were going to do this anyway, as well as ripping out all the walls upstairs, but I wasn't mentally prepared to rip out the wall yesterday. There is now a wonderful gaping hole in the second bedroom. Isn't he cute?


Here is one of the original window openings with a 1950s air conditioner still in place. I met one of our neighbors, an oldish man, who looked up at the window from outside and said..."I've been here since 1975 and that air conditioner was there before I got here." The pink color is the original color of the interior walls in the living room and the stairway. I can't wait to get those air conditioners out...there are two of them.


We thought we had it! With that in mind, we proceeded with the Queen boxspring

Oops! It didn't fit.

an hour of knocking the shit out of the boxpring with hammers and a crobar got it down the stairs and into the man-truck..a bit worse for wear. Off to the dump where getting rid of the bed cost us $10.00.


Luckily, the King had a split boxspring, though we still had to fold the mattress in half to get it down the stairs.
I have no idea how we will get furniture back up the stairs. There is no way a nice comfy couch, for instance, is making it into the master bedroom.
Stay tuned to see how we get the 1970s walnut queen head board down the stairs...its friggin' HUGE!