Refinishing an Antique Bed
Whats the best way to refinish an old antique iron bed?
Antique Bed Support System
Antique iron beds used a spring unit that attached to the side rails and that houses a feather mattress.
Missing Side Rails
Here’s a little education if you’re missing siderails for your antique iron bed.
Converting Antique Beds to Modern Sizes
The largest size bed being made back in the early to mid 1800’s was the double/full size,
Why Metal Beds & Not Wood?
What made iron beds so much more popular than wooden beds of their era?
Origin of Metal Beds
In the early to mid-1800’s, the center of steel production in this country, was in Pittsburgh Pa.
Castings Chills
The quality of an iron bed is most often determined by the quality of it’s castings or “Chills” as they were called back n the 1800’s.
Decorating Green With Antiques
Antique iron beds have become one of the most popular items being used by green decorators today. There are no better sustainable items than antique furniture.
Metal Beds vs All Brass Beds
Back in the early 1800’s the more affluent people in this country sought out the beauty of shinny brass beds.
“The Blue Bed”
When most people think about antique iron beds, they think “white”. What most people aren’t aware of is that “white was probably the least popular color that beds were painted back in the 1800’s. “White” only became popular when “reproductions” started to help satisfy the demand for the lack of original antique beds that were…