After identifying what style bed your child wants, you’re now going to have to  come to a decision  on the size. This will be determined by a couple of factors. The most important one being the apparent size of their room…..can your child’s room handle any size bed you’d like them to have or because [...]

Every year I set down around this time to take stock in the iron bed market and what’s to be expected in the upcoming year. As is always the case, I make mention of the depleted supplies of iron beds that seem to be showing up. It stands to reason…..there were a finite number of [...]

It never ceases to amaze me the variety of castings there were on iron beds back in the 1800′s. But during this holiday season I thought it most appropriate to share one that isn’t readily seen. It came in on a beautiful iron bed I’d bought back in the Appalachian Mountains of Pennsylvania. It’s a [...]

As I’ve mentioned in the past, a large group of people have always had a preconceived idea that iron beds are, were and should be,  white.  Well that couldn’t be farther from the truth. When iron beds were being produced back in the 1800′s, the small independent foundries that were producing them had a wider [...]

It’s always nice when we come across a previously unseen photo of an iron bed we provided for a movie. Thank you to my customer for forwarding this photo of the iron bed we did for the movie “The Holiday” with Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law and Jack Black. I actually had a close [...]

Are canopy iron beds better in one particular setting  than another.  Not hardly. As is seen in these two photo’s one canopy iron bed is covered with curtains, while the other iron bed is just bare poles and canopy rods. As you can easily see…..both look great. Can you guess where the iron bed is [...]

Sometimes, as is the case in this photo, all that is needed is the hint of an iron bed to achieve the desired effect. Most people think an iron bed needs to be big and bold to have any effect……… couldn’t be farther from the truth. Although we actually raise the headboard on over 50 [...]

Many people feel as though it’s necessary to select an iron bed that is all scrolled and fancy. Well if that’s were your taste falls and the setting delegates such a design…… that’s fine. But the collect ability of an iron bed isn’t  totally determined by curves, scrolls and “fancy”. As can be seen from [...]

This happens to be an iron bed we converted to a king size for a client a number of years ago. I’d received photo’s of it after it was set in their home and just saw this picture of it “on-line”. When you think about things to decorate during the holidays, few things are more [...]

Shoshone Indian cemetery, Wind River Reservation, Fort Washakie, Wyoming. Most remarkable among the graves in this high plains cemetery are those made of old iron bed frames. Many believe that Sacajawea is buried here, though another grave claimed to be hers exists at Fort Manuel in South Dakota. Throughout history iron beds have used in [...]

You know ……..  the one that instantly turns a new place into my home when it is set up. For me it’s always been my iron bed. As soon as I set it up, I start feeling like I’m in “my place. My iron bed has always given me that secure feeling that’s suppose to [...]

“Where do you get your iron beds ?” ……… I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked that question and how many ridiculous answers I’ve come up with over the past 40 years. My favorite is…….. “there’s a small town close to Three Mile Island that is a toxic waste dump. Over the [...]

Having dealt in iron beds for close to 40 years, it always drives me nuts when I see a nicely staged room that has a iron bed that is missing pieces. You’d be surprised how many decorators don’t give an incomplete iron bed a second thought. To me it’s as bad as a dresser being [...]

So what did small independently owned foundries of the 1800′s do when iron bed sales weren’t bringing in the revenue need to keep the doors open for business? Obviously other aligned items that they could make that required similar skills to that of making beautiful iron beds. One item that had many of the same [...]

It always fun when I go to the movies and see a iron bed of ours I wasn’t even aware was purchased for the movie. Because of where we’re located, in the Los Angeles area, we sell most of the antique iron beds that end up in feature films, TV shows and commercials. But much [...]

Man has always chosen to personalise where he lived to feel more emotionally and physically comfortable. From the very first caves we inhabited as human beings we chose to beautify them with cave paintings that depicted the lives that were led in those days. From these really humble origins the art of interior design has [...]

Yesterday I had occasion to see some of the news feeds on Yahoo. One of them was about the daughter of Kurt Cobain, singer/song writer and front man for the band Nirvana , which was considered the “flagship band of Generation X” and the father of “grunge rock”, and Courtney Love his wife. Back in [...]

This is a classic statement I get quite often from customers coming to me for iron beds. They desperately want a beautiful antique iron bed. But they want the headboard of that iron bed to be low enough to fit under the window that is on the only wall that can accommodate an iron bed. [...]

Here is a prime example how a little design sense, and iron bed and ingenuity can turn an otherwise wasted space into a peaceful retreat. We all have our idea of how much space is needed to set up a particular size iron bed. Usually we want walking space around the perimeter of the bed [...]