The thought around canopy iron beds is that they are feminine and only for little girls rooms. This couldn’t be farther from reality. Here is an bed I did for a physical trainer, who was about as masculine as they come. He specifically wanted a 2″ diameter bed that we could convert to king and…
Although the “art panel” iron beds that were being made back in the early 1800’s, certainly not the Deco period of the 1920’s and 30’s, definitely had a Deco feel to them. Take a look at this photo of a bed that was made in 1820. You would think with these more modern lines like…
Here is an Art Panel bed that was found in the Pittsburgh PA area. Iron beds didn’t usually filter too far west of the Mississippi back in the 1800’s. Shipping a heavy metal bed back then was much more of an ordeal than it is today, before trains and truck’s were able to bring them…
Most of the traffic I get for my iron beds comes to me from customers doing a Google Search . There are hundreds of different search terms that can obviously help find an iron bed. Some of those search terms are antique iron beds, antique iron bed,rustic iron bed, discount iron bed, metal beds, iron…
One of the funnier vintage photo’s Ive come across over the years is this “play bill” or advertisement. It has to do with a comedian who converted an iron bed into a two wheel bike. From his dress, “bowler hat” and the particular straight line metal bed he used, I’d say this photo was from…
When considering a bed for a child’s room…….keep this in mind. The bed you select doesn’t have to be the fanciest you can find. It can be the simplest and still give you a great look. In this photo you can get a feel for how busy a child’s room can be and how out…
Most people that aren’t associated with the field of design and decorating have a preconceived notion that iron beds are suppose to be painted white. No matter what the color of the wall they’re going against. The problem with this school of thought is that if your wall is white and your bed is also…
No photo I’ve seen evokes quite as much sorrow and despair as this one with a man setting on a bed at a “Poor House” in Perry County Missouri. If you look close, the bed in the photo is missing the brass treatment on the footboard that can be seen on the headboard. The corner…
Not long ago I was asked to help stage a house, with one of our beautiful antique iron beds, in the prestigious Malibu Colony on Malibu beach. They asked if I could come up with a bed that had a bit of a “WOW” factor. A bed that would be representative of the waves and…
Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States, about 75 miles (120 km) southeast of Lake Tahoe. As a bustling gold mining center, from 1859 to the begining of the 1900’s, Bodie had the amenities of larger towns, including two banks,…