Beyond the enclosed three season sun room, a major selling point of our new (old) home was the pretty massive master bedroom. And I'd always hoped for some sort of rich wood platform bed (as part of a matching set, of course). Unfortunately, when scouting out houses, we never stopped to consider the height of a stairwell or the corners we'd have to manuveur furniture around. Yep, you guessed it - as it turns out we've had a hard time getting large stuff up the stairs and beyond the 90 degree turn.

Our queen sized box spring was recycled and the matress found a home on the floor the day we moved in and until we upgraded to a king sized Tempurpedic clone. The new matress folded to make it upstairs and the two twin box springs took some paint off the walls, but eventually made it up too. Then we began our hunt for a bedroom set.

While we came across tons of nice bedroom sets, the headboards (and frames) were mostly single large pieces of wood. No way they'd make it. Well, except that one narrow shelving headboard unit designed to rest on two end tables. It was actually quite cool, but I wasn't sure who'd help me get it through the second floor window. And so we gave up on a complete, matched set.

For the time being we're hanging on to our existing nightstands, but our previous queen sized headboard does us no good. I've explored all sorts of options - building a headboard, hanging 3 or 4 large squares of art to mimic a headboard, and mostly just searching for a headboard I could assemble. Which is what we ultimately found and purchased, site unseen from Amazon.

The "EE Headboard-In-A-Box" (which also goes by "JLA Home Headboard" on other sites) is offered in a few styles - we went with the 'roll top' shape, which runs about $235. Despite weighing in at 60lbs, the relatively compact packaging made it pretty ease to get upstairs. The headboard itself is assembled by aligning and attaching three foam covered panels and two legs. All required hardware and an allen wrench are included - getting it built probably took me 20 minutes. Although it took (two of us) another fifteen minutes to get the headboard fastened to our metal bed frame.

The headboard comes with a tailored tan-ish microfiber slipcover. It fits well, although the lower edges are afixed to the headboard via velcro. I haven't quite decided if this is ingenious or cheesy. Regardless, the final product looks quite good. Better than we'd imagined, in fact. All sorts of additional slipcovers are available in various fabrics, patterns, and colors. We'll probably pick one up (~$65)  as a spare.