Moving, the Queen is just too large

Queen mattress I mean.

Since Matt and I are upgrading to a King, we thought we'd go ahead and move the frame and box spring of the queen mattress upstairs. It turned out to be quite the ordeal. Even with our low profile box spring, the staircase was just a little too short and narrow to fit. So, we (and by we I mean Matt) had to do some surgery.

First to go was a chunk of the bulkhead (awning?, I'm not sure what to call it)

 

But the Stair Gods were not satisfied with this sacrifice and demanded more: (this time you are looking down the stairs)

 

 And still, even with no more wall left to give, the Gods of Geometry said "NO!" and we ended up having to remove the bottom stair:

 

Only then did they relent and let us take the box spring up the stairs. We've decided just to leave it that way for now, since with James moving in shortly, we'd have to do it all over again anyway. Here's hoping he has a low profile box spring...