Victorian iron beds were a place of rest and relaxation. For the Victorian Era, they were a place of romance and style. The Victorians were well known for their romantic gestures, including love letters, poems and embellished cards. A shadowbox can highlight a lace paper background and the rich embellishments of a card such as…
The popular opinion about an iron beds adaptability and gender usually is thought to be determined by the beautiful curves or feminine design. Although that can certainly catch the eye and help you feel a bed will look better in a feminine room as oppose to a bachelors pad. It’s certainly not the only thing…
Well if it is , it will probably surprise you to know that New York City, in particular , has been the largest and most popular market for my iron beds for over 30 years. I’ve been selling beds for over 40 years. But only got into shipping them within the past 30 years. Over…
How many of you are old enough to remember Grandmas sleeping porch and the old antique iron beds she had on them? Well if you get into certain areas of the east, you’ll still see iron beds that haven’t moved an inch off those porches in the past 150 years. Sleeping porches provided a couple…
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 they were being produced back in the 1800’s, the small independent foundries that were producing them had a wider array…
Ever had someone you always loved talking to. Someone that was always so positive that you’d call them on bad days just to hear their was……that was Jake. I had the good fortune to have met Jake through a woman I’d fallen in love with when I first came to California back in 1975. They’d…
It’s always nice when we come across a previously unseen photo of an bed we provided for a movie. Thank you to my customer for forwarding this photo of the bed we did for the movie “The Holiday” with Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law and Jack Black. I actually had a close up of…
It takes far more than a knuckle dragging welder to convert an antique iron bed to accommodate a modern king size mattress. The easier conversions are straight line Austere iron beds that don’t require any subtle bends to be welded into the width,and only have straight tubing. But the beds that require finesse in the…
Extremely rare today and a luxury back in the 1800’s, matching twin iron beds are few and far between. Why would matching twin beds be so rare today. Simple……there were far fewer of them made than any other beds being made. So why were there far fewer being made? Again…simple……few people had the luxury of…
