SHE splashed out on a £195 new bed for her 11-year-old son.
And while Kimmay thought she’d done a great job as she put the furniture together, she soon realised she’d made an epic mistake.
But she soon realised she’d made a pretty big error in doing so[/caption]
She took to TikTok to share a video documenting the hilarious error, as she showed just how close the ceiling light and lampshade was to the mattress of the high sleeper bed, which she’d purchased from Argos.
“So I should have maybe measured the bed before I even bought it, let alone put it up,” she began.
“But I can tell you this I am NOT taking this down!
“It took me all day to build it.”
But she wasn’t going to make her son sleep with the bed like that, so had been thinking about different ways she could make it work.
One solution she’d come up with was to cut the bottom part of the “stilts” the bed was sitting on.
“Would that solve the problem?” she sighed.
“Because I really don’t want to take it down!”
Kimmay added that she didn’t think she could even get the bed down if she wanted to, as she guessed she probably “put it up wrong”.
She concluded the video by saying she was “gonna just chop things off” until she made it work.
People in the comments section were quick to offer their suggestions, with many saying she should just pay an electrician to come and move the light.
“Pay electrician to move the light, will cost about £100,” one wrote.
“Just get electrician to move the light fitting,” another added.
“Best just buying a light that is flat to the ceiling, probs £10 B&Q,” a third suggested.
“Won’t cost much for a electrician to move the light,” someone else added.
While others agreed with Kimmay’s idea to fix the situation, or came up with other ideas.
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“Yes trim the legs, we did this to our IKEA loft bed,” one wrote.
“What about the desk? It will be to low if you chop the legs off,” another warned.
“Get spot lights!” a third said.
To which Kimmay replied that she “will if my plan doesn’t work”.
In another TikTok, she shared an update from outside Screwfix as she waited for the “little tools” she had ordered to pick up.
“Today’s the day that I either fix it, it goes terribly wrong or it’s just a proper laugh,” she added.
“And I’m really, I am actually looking forward to it!”
She said she was thinking about chopping off the bottom of the bed stilts to make it fit[/caption]
