Project Update - CAUTION! Mega Huge Picture Thread

[Freija]

Progress has been made so here is another update!

When I last left off, I needed to paint the legs and give the 3 frames another spray of paint. Well, I got all four legs finished and they look decent



I stashed them back in the kitchen where I’d already been stacking things taken from the room where this monstrosity is going.



In spite of the weight of the frame layers, with the help of two furniture dollies, I found I could manage to get them where I wanted them so I moved them back outside for a few final tweaks

I drilled and countersunk pilot holes for all the places the frame layers were going to be attached to the legs.



Then I cut the bed slats and tacked them into place using staples in my nail gun.



I had to move a few things to get the frames around the corner and into the hallway and there they sat until I could empty out the room in order to assemble everything. This was a major operation.



The living room in my abandoned auto/machine shop house is the large master bedroom. It has double doors leading into the hallway but one of them was closed giving me a long enough space for the huge dresser inherited from my mom I’ve carted around since 1980 so the dresser had to be moved, which was a project in itself to get both of the doors open.

In order to get the big shelf layers into the room where they were going, because they wouldn’t fit around the corner, they had to go into the big room first so with the dresser moved and the double doors open, all the crap from my sleeping room/office got lugged over. Without thinking, I blocked my dresser and getting to my underwear drawer required the skills of a contortionist and a mountain climber.



You can barely see my sofa hiding in the back



With most of the stuff out of the way, all that was left was a lamp, my 9mm, my modem, router and WI-FI access point with my network switch that goes to my other three computers temporarily disconnected.



I moved the 3 frames into the room and stacked them against the wall but didn’t take a picture.

I unexpectedly got a call from my ex-husband letting me know he was in the neighborhood, just a couple houses down in fact helping a neighbor rebuild an old Jeep engine for a project car so even though I wasn’t really ready, I told him since he was here that he could come and help me. I scrambled moving more last minute things, like the mattress and my network stuff not knowing when he would show up.