Our new bed... and more details on the house

Today our landlord delivered our bed – an Ikea type frame with 2 nightstands that match the rest of the furniture in the house. Pretty standard stuff but with a new aspect all the same.

He had stated he was getting a double bed, but this is a true double. He assembled the frame in the morning and came back later in the afternoon with the mattresses. Yes, mattresses, plural.

Not only are there two mattresses (and no, neither one is a box spring) but one side of the mattress is soft and the other side is hard and there is a head and a foot to the mattress as well, you don’t just willy nilly throw it on the bed and lay down, you really have to be mindful or you might end up sleeping on the hard foot part of the mattress when what your really want is the soft head part under your slumbering head.

After we got the mattresses squared away Coral and I rearranged the furniture in our house – you’ve probably seen a few pics of what was already in our house, and thinking OMG JEN! What are you doing lifting that stuff? Are you trying to hurt yourself before you’ve even started school??

Well, another odd thing here, the pretty hard wood floors are not wood at all. At least, I don’t think they are. I can safely say there’s not way these are hard wood planks that have been placed down and fitted together. Coral and I were planning on where to put things and suddenly she started sliding the bureau across the floor… My first instinct, which I acted upon, was to stop her so we could work together and lift it so as not to scratch up the wood (I could just see the horror in my Father’s eyes) – and then I realized we’re standing on some sort of laminate.

Not linoleum or anything I’m familiar with, it’s not the spongy textured stuff at home, it’s super smooth and has ridges where the “seams” are, and from a distance (standing distance) looks like a real wood floor. So we slid the furniture all around the house and now I’m sitting in my redecorated living room – as redecorated as a room can be when you don’t have anything to decorate with.

Oh yeah – almost forgot – the one other cool thing about the floors here – in both the bathroom and the WC you’ll find heated towel racks – not on the floors, those are electric and on the walls - and marble(ish?) floors connected to a thermostat which controls the hot water that heats the floors so you’ll be in a nice toasty warm room during the winter.