Deconstruction

I'm getting ready to move back into the bedroom of my teenage years. To make the room friendlier for my new furniture and more age appropriate, I had to take down the bunk bed that had been there since before our 1991 move-in.

Here's a picture of the room with the bunk bed.

This was a Saturday morning project on my own. After buying spackle for the holes I knew would be in the wall, I settled into a loud radio station and got to work. Step 1, clear furniture and boxes from the bunk/loft area. Step 2, open the windows and turn on the floor fan for some ventilation. Here are the first couple screws coming loose, constituting step 3.

Step 4, start tearing shit down. The loft piece was pretty stubborn. Though I had taken out all the screws through the boards and into the wall, the loft piece stuck to the back wall with a few unremovable nails. Check that out.

Finally, I can move onto step 5 and aim for the ladder/center post.

Though I reattached it later on to safely take down the actual bed area, this was a crucial point in the day - when I really could see the whole structure coming down.

Like the loft part of the structure, the bed platform proved difficult to destroy. Here's a picture with me holding both the crowbar and the platform while i try to separate the rafters and the whole thing from the wall.

Around the time I was finishing the demolishing, I captured the screws and bolts that for so long held up the loft and a bed...

Spackle before:

Spackle after:

Room after. End of post. At this point, you can either congratulate me for making a wise decision to take down the bunk bed or criticize the moving in with the 'rents for an indeterminate amount of time: