We bought new bedroom furniture and chose a poster bed so that you could lie in bed and look out the big windows overlooking the woods behind us to a valley below and I-40 in the far background, and see the beautiful sunrise in the winter. I'm a short person and I thought the bed might be too tall for me and at first I was afraid I would fall off during the night. By today's standards, it is a "low" bed. I would have to have a ladder or stool to climb into the new beds. The top mattress alone would be a good height for me!
Now for the saga of buying a bedspread for our poster bed. Three years ago I bought a white, cotton mattalasse bedspread with shams. Jim disliked the spread from the beginning. Since retiring he helps me make the bed every morning when we get up and was used to a quilted bedspread that had seams for the side of the bed to help you keep the spread straight. He hated the new spread because he could never get it straight. I like the casual look and never noticed that it wasn't perfectly straight along the bottom of the bed. It looked so pretty with our dark cherry poster bed.
So... I started looking for a fitted, quilted bedspread to make him happy. Guess what! They don't make that style anymore. I looked in all the stores in our area and all I could find were heavy comforters and coverlets that are smaller than bedspreads. We live in the South and don't need heavy down comforters to have to remove from the bed every night. Besides they don't tuck down at the bottom of the bed between the tall posts. Comforters were too short to tuck the pillow underneath. When we went to FL in January, my sister and I went to all the stores in Sarasota thinking you could find a lightweight bedspread in that sunny state. Not so!!
Just big fat comforters with lots of pillows (which you also have to remove at night).
When we came back home, I started searching online again. I found a "bedspread" at the JC Penney site, under a "close out" sale page. Originally it was $259 but was on sale for $ 84. I thought $84 was a lot to pay but decided to order it anyway. It came in 2 colors: pink or blue. Ugh.... Jim agreed that the slate blue was a good choice so I ordered the bedspread. I also ordered 2 pillow shams, and 3 waterfall valances for the single window.
The valances and shams arrived right away but the bedspread was out of stock! We waited awhile and the bedspread finally came. To our surprise, there were 2 pillow shams folded inside the bedspread. No mention of this in the description of the ad. I think they must have wanted to get rid of them! Anyway we made the queen size bed, and the bedspread reached the floor on each side with about 4" left over. I will have to cut it off and rehem one side, which I can do. They must have allowed for extra pillows or very fat ones, because I need to cut off about 12" from the length. I plan to use that to make a quilted valance for the window. First I will look into buying some bed "risers" to put under each post to elevate the bed 3-4" so maybe I don't have to cut off the bedspread.
I forgot to mention that bed coverings are made to fit beds with tall mattresses, which we can't use on our poster bed. We had to get a mattress topper instead. I can still get in the bed without a stool but eventually will need a stool to get out of bed when I get old--er.
Now we're looking at the modern pedestal sinks for our guest bedroom and I haven't convinced Jim that this is what we should buy to replace the old cabinet.
