We finally got a loft bed / desk for Alex off of Craigslist. The one in Seattle that we were hoping for got bought out from under us this morning. This new one was posted in Olympia about noon today, and I e-mailed the people selling it about 15 minutes later.
After picking Alex up from school, I took all the seats out of the van and emptied the car and racing equipment out of the Soap Box Derby trailer, dropped Alex off at Grandma's house, and Tiffany and I headed for Olympia. We left about 5:00, and arrived to pick up the bed at 7:00. It's a good thing we took all the hauling capacity that we did . . . both the van and trailer were completely full of bed pieces. Had we not taken the trailer, or left a seat in the van (so Alex could go), there is no way we would have been able to haul it.
We stopped for dinner at Country Kitchen in Centralia (or is it Cousin's Kitchen?) Great food, but terribly slow service; finally, we arrived home about 11:00.
The bed is an identical design to the one shown a couple posts below, and is in very good condition.
I know it sounds goofy to drive to Seattle to pick up a bed, but we have been shopping for this quite a bit, and Alex (along with Tiffany and I) have decided that this is absolutely the model that we want. The lowest price we've seen for a new one, however, is $1000. On Craigslist, the last one posted anywhere near Portland was about a week and a half ago, in Salem, for $550. Instead of watching Craigslist with baited breath for weeks and hope that a good one gets posted, we decided to just make the drive. We ended up paying $400 for it. Actually, that's not a bad deal - the piece is actually two beds (there's a trundle on the floor), a very large desk, a bookshelf, a five-drawer dresser, two more large drawers under the desk, and a very large storage cabinet in the back. And it's all solid wood - no pressboard or thin plywood anywhere.
No comments:
Post a Comment