Look Mom! I finally made my bed!

I like hands-on projects. I love starting with nothing and being able to see good results at the end of the day. So much of what I have been doing recently doesn't appease this need in me. Keeping the books? Umm, that's the opposite of productivity. Seeing the money we spend just depresses me. Writing policies? Definitely not. Researching all sorts of things from health care plans to food handling law. Groan.

This week we have entered a new phase in our reno/prep work here: Finishing touches. Today I decided to crawl out of my hole of an office and take it upon myself to make my beds. Literally.

Here's what I started with:

A stack of head and foot boards (Technically these are designed to be bunk beds, so those are the steps on the right)

And everything that goes between the head and foot boards.

For the record, I did not receive an instruction manual.

So I laid it all out and did a 'dry run' of putting it together. It seemed to work ok, so on to nails and screws:

And then...

Ta da!

Then something occurred to me and I started doing the math... It took me 4 hours to put this bed together. We have 16 beds. That's 64 hours, or a week's worth of work. Gulp. So I pondered this while eating my lunch of rice and beans and while I took my daily rest in my hammock. By the time I went back to work, I was armed with a new strategy. 

I think the new strategy worked, because this afternoon I whipped out two more beds in 2 hours. Definitely a better pace!

It was exciting to pull out all the sheets, blankets, towels and pillows we had purchased about two weeks ago and see how it all actually looked together. I think it is pretty sharp, if I do say so myself. 

Yes, there is a third bed. I just couldn't get all three in the same picture. 

So now have one guest room that is totally ready to go. We just need to get some artwork to put on the walls! Tomorrow I'm hoping to put together another four beds in two more rooms and finish off details in the bathrooms and the courtyard. 

I guess the one other thing we need is people to come fill these beds! Who wants to be first?!?