… your bedroom furniture is up on blocks.

When I bought the new king-sized mattress in May, I didn’t realize it would be about 8 inches taller than the old bed had been. Consequently, the nightstands were suddenly way too low. My immediate solution was to put them up on chunks of 2 by 4s. As much as I love that look, it didn’t really make the right statement (not that I have a parade of visitors through the bedroom who might think less of me for my woodworking choices.) Dad build me some lovely leg extenders that we put on each nightstand. He made the extenders with a hole in the top, and we drilled a matching hole in the bottom of each leg and glued a dowel into the holes to join the extender to the nightstand. And by we, I mean Dad, since he can’t sit still for even three seconds while I am out timing the Drumstick Dash. I feel guilty that he comes over and does all the work, but then I realize that even if I were home, he’d do all the work. *grin*

So, now my bedroom furniture is not up on blocks, but it does look like it’s on stilts.