This is a “before & after” photo of a bed I had converted to king and canopy for some very close friends of ours. As you can see in the photo the castings are very large and nicely detailed. This bed itself lent it self, from a style standpoint, to nicely being converted to a…
The majority of the antique iron beds that were being made back in the early to mid 1800’s were Victorian style designs with beautiful open scrolls and smooth curved lines. So to come across a unique style bed that was made at the same time, but looked as though it was a bed that had…
I’m often asked……Since you’ve been dealing in antique iron beds for over thirty years, what kind of beds do your daughters have? Well here’s my 15 yr olds bed.
Why should you consider buying an antique iron bed, when there are so many alternative bed frames on the market?
One of the more popular iron bed styles throughout the 1800’s was the “Wedding Ring” design.
So why were iron beds so high off the ground? The old beds and even their wooden counterparts were elevated higher than what we’re use to today because of cold drafts that were close to the ground