Sunday, January 17, 2010

Bed Hunting

We decided that we need a bigger bed.

じゅるる had a full size bed, which is currently at the new apartment.

I also have a full size bed, which is currently being occupied by Koge.

Plus じゅるる's bed is really old.
Like 11 years old.
So it's time for a new bed.

Although we would love to have a king size bed, it would never ever fit in the tiny bedrooms of WLA. So we'll be settling for a queen. It's not that much bigger than a full, but it'll be a little more room.

We first went to Sit & Sleep around New Year's.
The prices were around $1000. Hm, so-so.

Couple days later, we went to Easy Life.
Well, they sell furniture... but also sell some mattresses too.
All of the bed frames were too bulky (the headboards are really tall!). But the mattresses were a little bit cheaper. They also had a cute & tiny couch and chaise set, but it comes w/ a non-matching side chair & ottoman/table. Very strange.

We also stopped by Leeds, but all the mattresses were pricey.

Sometime later, we went to IKEA looking for bed frames... but none of them looked that good. They all either looked like hospital beds (metal ones) or white (wood ones). They can't have darker colors?

Anyway, we saw a TV ad for The Mattress Store.
They were having some big sale or something... so we decided to go check it out, just in case. They had signs on the beds, but the sales guy quoted $200 less than the "red tag" price. Really?

So we bought one.
They'll deliver next weekend.
And haul away the old one.

And because it's a Serta, they gave us a sheep ^__^
It's a girl sheep, so it'll be Popo's first plushie, I guess.

4 comments:

Smurfette said...

costco has a sale on beds every year in january. it's usually about 1/3 off what you'd find in mattress stores and they're not too bad.

Shizuki said...

Smurfett>
We went to Costco, and they only had twins, fulls & cal kings. I guess they rotate through inventory regularly & have different selections... but I didn't want to go look every week.

Plus we wouldn't have a way of getting it home (I didn't think they delivered, and I rented a cargo van when we bought our first big TV couple of years ago).

Erika said...
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Erika said...

Did you check Costco online? And there are coupons for stuff once in a while, too. They also deliver, but I don't know if they'll haul away your old mattress.

Well, I guess for next time you need a mattress... >.>;