Snowflake = Snowball = Avalanche

I blame this mess on the never ending winter.  Last year's of course!  Yep...I started this 9 months ago!!

Back in April (2013) I was still stuck inside ('cause the white stuff refused to go away) so the resulting avalanche was totally NOT my fault.

Ya see...I was in the guest room giving it the hotel flip...ya know...clean bedding, towels, etc.  And I stayed in there for a few minutes too long.  Lingering.  Looking around a little too closely.  Realizing I no longer liked the way it looked.  It was okay but I felt like it could be better.

So I started considering my furniture placement options.  Then broke out the measuring tape.  And next thing I know...I'm in the midst of a full-on guest room redo!

Seriously...how is it possible that I go into the room just to put clean sheets on the bed and end up with Ziggy climbing to the top of the propped up mattress???

That kitty is lightening fast and was staring down at me before I could even blink!

Then my snowball starting rolling...getting bigger and bigger...

With the old furniture placement, there wasn't enough room to fully put the whole bed together.  So I was storing the partially disassembled footboard and side boards under the bed.  Which bugged me.  Since I moved the bed to the other wall, there was now room for the whole bed.

In order to reassemble the bed, the side boards needed to be cut down a few inches. Which required breaking out 'ol miter bob.  Which was hiding under winter gear in the garage.

So the following avalanche ensued....

Gain access to 'ol miter bob.
Move cars outta garage.
Cut a few inches off side boards.
Reassemble footboard pieces.
Find nails/tools/glue to reassemble footboard.
Wait on wood glue to thaw out.  (Stop storing wood glue in frozen garage.)
Find brackets/screws to attach side boards.
Reassemble the whole bed.
Spackle/fill/sand/touchup paint the whole bed.

And while I had the paint out...I decided to repaint the dresser to match.  Which required some minor disassembly and 3 coats of paint.  Of course the side tables ended up being too big for the smaller space.  So I needed to buy or build new ones.  As a compromise, I opted to keep the same bases and attach smaller wood tops.  Which required staining.  Of course.  Anything less would be waaayyyyyy too easy!

Lesson learned from this adventure:
Next time...I'm sending the hubby in to change the sheets!!!