How to cover this for house viewing

[FlappyCats]

Hi - I know this is a really small thing, but it's bugging me. We disassembled DS's triple sleeper so he had this small double and a single. Trouble is we can't get the dowel out and I think it looks stupid poking up like that on the marketing photo!

What can I drape over it? Blanket? Throw? Or something more imaginative please. I'd welcome your ideas. 😊

If it’s for marketing photos can they not just photoshop it?

Yes, photoshop for photos and ignore for live viewings - no one will notice or care.

Just to add my pet hate is “artfully disarranged” throws on every surface. It screams house stager to me and I always assume the sellers have added a bit extra on to the price.

Paint it the same colour as the bed post? Then the eye won't be drawn. Or saw the protruding but off!

I never thought of photoshopping it!
I know it's insignificant - but it's just annoying me out of all proportion

I had to look at your picture 3 times before I realised what you were talking about.

seriously don’t sweat it!

Painting it is a good idea actually, instant solve. I would saw the bloody thing off, but we'll need to reassemble the bunks again after the house has (hopefully) sold - just needed an extra bed to put in the junk room/office to make it look presentable.

I can't even see it.

Anyone who declines a house viewing because of that will be someone you don't want buying your house!

Yeah I'm not saying it would stop anyone coming. I'm saying it's bugging the crap out of me. Maybe it's because it's taken us 6 months to declutter and clean and repair and it's been massively stressful to get it to this point and it's the straw that broke the camel's back now.

I will get over myself and sit a teddy on it.

Chaps and a cowboy hat? haha

What is a dowel? help! Lovely room by the way!

You could saw it off and drill it out, just replacing it later in. Have you used pliers? Warm it up with a hairdryer and try pliers then.

If you are so bothered I would saw it off - if the bed is staying together without the dowel being all the way down then it will live. - pretty sure dowels are available from all good retailers

Let not the good stand in the way of the perfect ( or whatever that saying is )

Easiest way to get it out is to break the dowel up. Can you drill it?

There you go OP.

Haha thank you. You lot are bloody brilliant! Do you want to critique the other rooms as well? 😂

But they are viewing/buying the house not the bed, I don't understand the problem?

Lovely room

Cut if off with a small saw?

Yes!!

To the people who keep saying buyers won't be bothered. Please see the part where I say it's annoying ME. I know buyers won't be bothered. I have got a bee in my bonnet and I'm quite aware I'm being ridiculous. 😅

My friend has been over this afternoon and done this...

Ok. Master bedroom. Decluttered ( I think) to the point of being really bare and quite cold.

I would add a rug and bench at bottom of bed. DH says keep as is

Both ends look the same height so could you turn the bed around so the dowel is hidden from view by the pillows and cushions at the head end?
Either that or fold up that throw and just leave it folded and draped over one end. Unfolded it is too thin so you can see the bump where the bump where the dowel sticks up.

Turn the bed frame around and hide it with a pillow for the photos.

I can see the bump of the dowel on the photo with the throw. That would annoy me just as much as the dowel.

X-post!