People take radically different approaches to home furnishings. For some people, it is all about creating the most comforting, conventionally attractive home possible. People like this tend to have fairly boring straight forward tastes in furniture, but they do it very well.
They don't display iron furniture. They choose not to display artifacts from far off places, unless they are some pretty innocuous artifacts designed for tourists. They don't paint their rooms in unusual colors, and rarely use wallpaper unless it has flowers on it. These are not the type of people who put up canopy beds in their houses.
In the past, the canopy bed was once a very mainstream type of furniture, nowadays it appeals to a very specific type of person. Canopy beds are for the whimsical and the adventurous, the dark and creepy, and the people that are impossible figure out.
Although almost anyone would be happy to get an heirloom canopy bed as a gift from an ancestor, few people would really be able to bring themselves to take it out of storage. I was very fortunate to inherit just such an antique bed. It is one of those massive sized iron frame beds that they do not make any more.
It is big, solid, and weighs so much that it requires four people to carry. It is also very hard to disassemble, and almost impossible to transport. Still, for me a canopy bed like that was well worth it. I hired some movers, carefully packed it, and placed it in my bedroom.
It looked elegant in there. It was a big iron frame with spiral accents up and down the sides of the canopies. There were actual cast iron lions feet on it, as well as intricately carved figurines on the side!
The only problem with the bed was the canopy. It could not last the years as well as the iron canopy bed head. It was old, faded, and a little bit mildewed. I took it off and placed it in storage, but only for sentimental value. I knew I would never have the opportunity to use it again.
Locating a canopy bed canopy, however, did not prove too difficult. They are very easy to make so, after a bit of obsessing, I found some beautiful fabric. I hung it in strips along the sides of the bed, creating a thin diaphanous barrier from the rest of the room. All in all, the effect is elegant yet haunting. I can't tell you how much I love that bed.
They don't display iron furniture. They choose not to display artifacts from far off places, unless they are some pretty innocuous artifacts designed for tourists. They don't paint their rooms in unusual colors, and rarely use wallpaper unless it has flowers on it. These are not the type of people who put up canopy beds in their houses.
In the past, the canopy bed was once a very mainstream type of furniture, nowadays it appeals to a very specific type of person. Canopy beds are for the whimsical and the adventurous, the dark and creepy, and the people that are impossible figure out.
Although almost anyone would be happy to get an heirloom canopy bed as a gift from an ancestor, few people would really be able to bring themselves to take it out of storage. I was very fortunate to inherit just such an antique bed. It is one of those massive sized iron frame beds that they do not make any more.
It is big, solid, and weighs so much that it requires four people to carry. It is also very hard to disassemble, and almost impossible to transport. Still, for me a canopy bed like that was well worth it. I hired some movers, carefully packed it, and placed it in my bedroom.
It looked elegant in there. It was a big iron frame with spiral accents up and down the sides of the canopies. There were actual cast iron lions feet on it, as well as intricately carved figurines on the side!
The only problem with the bed was the canopy. It could not last the years as well as the iron canopy bed head. It was old, faded, and a little bit mildewed. I took it off and placed it in storage, but only for sentimental value. I knew I would never have the opportunity to use it again.
Locating a canopy bed canopy, however, did not prove too difficult. They are very easy to make so, after a bit of obsessing, I found some beautiful fabric. I hung it in strips along the sides of the bed, creating a thin diaphanous barrier from the rest of the room. All in all, the effect is elegant yet haunting. I can't tell you how much I love that bed.
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