It’s a rainy afternoon. I’ve send my husband and the lad away for a couple of hours (here, here’s a twenty, go buy some milk and be home by dinner<\/i>) because I am doing some painting and I like doing it by myself. I’ve just finished the ceiling and washed my brushes, and I’m taking a break before I start on the walls. (Nothing interesting color-wise — just a fresh coat of white paint. )
\nThis was a little spare bedroom that used to be a junk room and now is being transformed into a dedicated guest room. I want to make a cozy, honest-to-goodness guest room because in a couple of weeks, we will have a new person in the Moss household — my cousin, Ruby Foxburr of Loamsdown, Kansas. Ruby just graduated from Kansas State (yay, Ruby!) and has accepted an internship in Washington, D.C. She’ll be staying with us until around May.
\nSo we are getting ready for Ruby and fixing up her room. Now, here’s where I am interested in your opinion: the only furniture I have for this room is an old bureau and two bookcases (purchased long ago at IKEA for my first apartment — KURS and BILLY, if you’re interested.) I need to get a bed in this room. What kind should I get? I am trying to decide between a daybed and a full-size conventional bed, and I am starting to confuse myself with all kinds of contingencies.
\nIn favor of the daybed: the room is not that large (maybe 8 by 10?), and a daybed would look really cute. It would be fine for Ruby and most of our guests.
\nThe thing with a daybed, though, is that it only sleeps one. When my parents were to come, it would be nice to have a double to sleep them on, and something a bit more comfortable than one of those pop-up units.
\nBut then, they don’t come THAT often. If I put a daybed in there, if they found the pop-up uncomfortable, I could always shift Hambet into the guest room and let them take his bed.
\nHow comfortable are daybeds, anyway? Another thing in my list of improbable events that I am mentally preparing for is a visit from my elderly, travel-phobic mother-in-law. But then, again, if she finds the daybed uncomfortable, then Hambet can sleep there.
\nThere’s a captain’s style daybed at IKEA that I like — the drawer under the bed can be used either as a storage drawer or as the base for a second bed, so it converts into a full. Maybe I will look at that one. I just wonder where one keeps the other mattress?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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