Brooklyn's New Waterbed

Brooklyn's First Bed...

To visit the first web site of this bed, click here.
Don't forget to visit Preston's new water bed as well when you are done.

When Brooklyn was just 2-1/2 years old, dad built her a fantasy playhouse bed in which to sleep. Equipped with lights, a door bell, and a slide, Brooklyn loved her bed as she knew it was every little girl's dream bed. Over the years, it's been a focal point as people pass through the house. When dad made the bed, it didn't occur to him that Brooklyn would ever outgrow the bed until she turned 18 and left the house.

In the fall of 2001, Preston wanted a new bed. However, Brooklyn assured her dad that she was happy with her bed and wanted to keep it forever. And then, she grew another year older...

The day we gave her the bed, Christmas of 1996, mom and dad went into the room and couldn't find the kids. They were actually hiding in part of the bed.

Before we took the bed out, we thought it would be cute to get one more picture of them in the storage bin. This time, they were quite a bit bigger, but still just as cute.

Moments before disassembling the bed, Brooklyn gets scared and tries to stop dad from taking her bed apart.

It didn't stop dad. He had already built the new bed and was ready to take the old one down and store it right along with Preston's old diesel bed.

Brooklyn's New Water Bed...

Greg started building the bed about a week and a half before Christmas of 2002. He knew that he wanted the bed canopy to come down and the head board to collapse down when Brooklyn got tired of the big bed (or moved to college--whichever came first). He designed the bed on the computer and before long, he was making sawdust.

Although he finished the bed before Christmas, we just didn't have enough time to get the room painted and ready for the new bed.

Thus, shortly after Christmas, we installed the water bed and put in the last of the electrical system.

The bed has six large drawers underneath as well as lots of shelves for her special belongings.

Brooklyn was excited to move all of her dolls and knickknacks into her new bed.

In the process, she was good at getting rid of a lot of knickknacks which didn't have any meaning to her and that left a lot of room to expand with new knickknacks for the years to come.

Even Mary Lucy and Raggedy Ann and Andy had a special place.

At the foot of the bed is another display area. This one hasn't even started to be filled.

In the background, you can see the previous project that dad built for the kids. Before, the closet simply had a bifold door and inside a simple closet. Dad had redesigned the closet and installed huge cabinets with 12 big drawers on the bottom, along with storage cabinets on top of the clothes. The same design was used in Preston's room.

As soon as dad made the bed, he was suppose to begin building her a desk to match as he did for Preston. However, she still enjoyed the 87 year old vanity that she got from Great Grandma Addie Lindsey and decided to keep it instead of getting a desk. Dad eventually covered the bench in the same material he used on the water bed side rails.