Formerly known as the Pleasure Palace

LuAnn named this room "The Pleasure Palace". I don't know what she was thinking. It was just a place to recover from the day. When all four of our kids were at home and we only had a three bedroom home, I built a bedroom in the basement for Judy and me, because we didn't think any of the kids would want to be in a very dark (the darker, the better for me), and very cold room in the winter (I didn't mind how cold it was because we had a heated waterbed). And it stayed cool in the summer. As the kids moved out of the house, we converted two of the bedrooms upstairs into a computer room and Gramma Room. And then I built a queen captain's bed complete with two armories and night stands and we moved back upstairs. That left an unused and out dated room in the basement. In November 2008 I started ripping out the old room, all the built-in bookcases and cabinets and preparing it for a new purpose. I chopped up the waterbed and threw it away. Well, it took a year (I was pretty slow at it) to fix it up and paint it. Then in the cold garage I started cutting the large pieces of wood but did all the assembly and finishing in the much warmer basement. And below you see the results. A very nice horizontal Murphy bed. This frees up most of the room to relax in and play Wii. So now this is "The Wii Room", which doubles as a guest bedroom, provided the guests like a very dark and cold room. Now all we need is new bedding for it. This is not for small kids that are being potty trained, because they might confuse the Wii with wee-wee, and I am not in the mood to clean up any new kind of liquids from the new rug. There you have it. The next project for that room is to make two floor-to-ceiling book cases so I can finally get all the books out of the shed, but this will come after making some frames for Judy's family portrait wall project. Be aware that we purposely made this bed a full sized bed (also known as a double) because we just didn't want too many guests staying tooooo long (we might make some exceptions for out of staters who are just visiting).