Nate's Nightshift Room

A few weeks ago, in order to fight the summer heat and to help Nathan sleep better while he works the two weeks of night shifts every month we (or should I say 'I') built him his own 'night-shift room.

 

Step 1. Clean out half of the storage room in the basement to make room.

Step 2. Pick up his old twin bed from his parents home (with their consent of course).

Step 3. Go shopping for a new mattress for said bed.

 

Nathan testing out all the options.

Step 4.  Me assembling said bed frame and box spring in the basement.
Step 5. Blowing up the air mattress that substituted the real mattress while we waited the week for delivery from the furniture store.

Step 6. Decorating said night-shift room.  Ha-ha, I had a lot of fun setting up his room while he was at work.  ex. stuffed goat on the pillow, picture of us in the window, squirrel picture from his sister on the wall.
Step 7.  Re-inflating the air mattress daily.

Even Jasper helped.  He was a great supervisor.

Step 8.  'Real' mattress arrives and is finally put in place. 
Step 9.  Nathan able to sleep in his very own cool and dark night-shift room. (but only when sleeping during the day.)

Added bonus: Night shift room doubles as a guest room when company come over.  Congratulations to my best-friend M who was the first to use our new guest room (even if it was while we were still using the air mattress substitute).  Please feel free to come again and this time test out the real bed.

Funny side story.  While we were at the furniture store shopping for the mattress, we found this table that is a perfect example of what we would like to do to our kitchen floor i.e. tile surrounded by wood, so we had to take a picture.  But check out Nathans winning smile. He could sell this table to anyone using that smile.  I'm glad I caught it.  I love this man.

Happy Sunday