The following day after the door was attached, we built the beds as planned. I think it’s impossible to make a bed in about 6 days if it’s a proper bed for sale but since a layman will use it, there’s no need for elaborate construction.
Although I was hesitant to let a customer use it, I decided to put up with it even if it was a little poorly made as no one would stay that long. I can’t say that no aristocrat or something like that would come around this area but we are just blacksmiths here anyway so they can’t complain, I guess. A noble person may come here but the condition for me to craft the “custom-made item” is that “the person himself should come here alone”, so that may not happen, and such great man would probably tolerate some poor things.
“So, from today on, we’ll make the bed. I’ll cut the tenon, so tell me when you guys finished cutting the timber.”
“Understood.”
“Okay.”
Today, Rike and Samia will make one, and I’ll make the other one. We’ll do the work outside. Since the area is open like a square, the sun shines so it feels good. Today, we’ll cut the timber according to the bed’s dimension. If we could assemble it before the set schedule, that would be the most satisfying. It will be assembled and carried in tomorrow, then finally, well make one for the guest room and redecorate it, this is the plan for the next 6 days.
The size of the bed in my room is a bit large, but it fits in the new room, and even if I put it in, there is enough space for other things, so I will use that as the reference. Instead of a ruler, I cut some wood into the size of the bed and the wood is cut out based on that size. It’s also the same for the height.
Then, the wood is cut out one after another. The logs themselves, which were used as a carrier when a deer was caught, were dried and made into lumber, so the material itself still sufficient.This is translated by Yume Neiji (yumeineijiworks.wordpress.com)
“Boss, please come here.”
“Okay.”
From time to time, I’m asked to cut the tenons and make parts. It takes some time because I have to make a number of it. And eventually, I finished making a set of parts on this day.
The next day.
Today, we’ll assemble and bring it in. We start to assemble the parts that I have made. Given that it took a long time even for furniture parts for sale in my previous world, this is expected to take a considerable amount of time. Dealing with a wooden hammer is not that difficult, but assembling it correctly seems easy but it’s difficult. In the end, the assembly took until late afternoon.
We bring the finished bed to the newly created room.
“Even with just the bed in it, I feel like it’s now a room where people live in.”
“That’s right. I used to live without a bed, but since I came here, it became normal to have a bed and I’m starting to feel like it’s a room if there’s a bed in it.”
“There are rooms for dwarves too, but we sleep together in a huddle so to say that we’ll have a room per individual, I’m a little anxious.”
“Eh? Rike, you experienced building a room extension right?”
“I did, but basically, it’s one room for one family so sometimes there’s just a shelf without a bed. Well, those opposite sex who are not a member of the family does not share the same room though.”
“I see…”
It might be strange for them to get used in having one bed for each person. I don’t know how it is for people in the town (whether inside or outside the wall).
“Well, with this, the type of the house I want is done.”
“Right.”
“Yes.”
We worked hard today so we had a glass of wine for dinner and celebrated lightly.
“Today is for the guests’ use so should we make it a little more elaborate?”
“How should we do it?”
“Hmmm…”
We didn’t make a headboard with built-in drawer for ourselves but we will make one for our guest. I thought about sculptures for decoration, but I decided that I wouldn’t include it because I thought it would be too gaudy. I then convey it to Samia and Rike.
“All right.”
“Understood.”
The materials for the headboard are also cut today. I tried to work on it at the earliest possible time to assemble it today, but maybe it was because of the headboard, and when it’s done, it was already past midday time.
“Let’s end here for today and continue the rest tomorrow.”
“Okay.”
“Yes.”
In my spare time, I enter the workshop and make nails. The nail is close to a square-cut nail. I made a reasonable number and secured them in stock, then with that, I ended the work for this day.This is translated by Yume Neiji (yumeineijiworks.wordpress.com)
Then next day.
Before we assemble the bed, we need to rearrange things. We bring out furniture other than shelves from the Rike and Samia’s room to the living room, and move one desk, chair, and one shelf from the study to their bedroom. The furniture that was in the bedroom was brought into the vacant place then the remodelling was over. It took some time up to this point.
We should have done this yesterday, I do regret it but we’ll just have a feast later. We quickly assembled the bed. It is a little squeaky, but maybe because we had done the assembly work before, we finished it more smoothly than I expected. Still, it’s almost getting dark already. We then quickly carried it in.
“Be careful, all right.”
“Okay.”This is translated by Yume Neiji (yumeineijiworks.wordpress.com)
Me and Samia brought the bed for the guest to the study room. Although I say it’s for the guest, I will use it for the time being. By the time it was carried in, it was already dark.
“It took a while huh.”
When I spoke my contemplation,
“Well, you can’t help it. Since it’s something you’re not used to, it will turn out like this.”
Samia comforted me. Rike too,
“Well, I think this is enough so I don’t think this kind of work will be done in the future.”
She said.This is translated by Yume Neiji (yumeineijiworks.wordpress.com)
In this way, the bed making, which was kind of tiring, was finally over and my house became even more like a home.