Bring Bed Back in Style
Bedroom represents the personality of the owner or dweller thus people will decorate their bedroom appropriate to personal preferences and taste. In the bedroom, commonly, the point of interest is bed set. One of distinctive designs of bed is sleigh bed that is a style of bed with curved or scrolled foot and headboard which resembling to a sled or sleigh. This luxurious bed set in the bedroom will be fascinating, like a sleigh bed piled high with pretty sheets, plump pillows, and a down comforter.
Victorian style is generally used for sleigh bed design; nonetheless, today it is turn into wide range of antique furniture either contemporary furniture. This traditional style of bed was inspired by the court of the French emperor Napoleon that originally came from antique Roman forms that were being unearthed all throughout Europe. Since these archeological discoveries of the Roman Empire were being found and used as the progress for furniture, the fashion became known as the Empire style. Both France and America went through phases of Empire style.
In America, by 1815, nearly all towns and cities with active furniture artisans were seeing an explosion of these beds being made. Its first appearance is in the early 1800’s as a hallmark of the American Empire period. In this period, between 1800 until 1820, the Victorian style with complex ornamentation had a great vogue. Since then, the sleigh bed has always held a special place in the hearts of America’s decorators.
Sleigh bed available in many sizes and design, which more modern as king size bed, queen size bed, single size and for children. In France, sleigh beds were small and designed for one or single. They resembled more of what is known as a daybed. The materials of sleigh beds are made from a variety of materials including wood, iron, steel, leather and aluminum or even rattan. Generally, traditional sleigh bed is made of wood, at times, some sleigh beds are solid wood furniture that quite heavy with fully ornamented. In addition, there are sleigh beds in attractive and colorful design for children different from the traditional style that comes in natural color and monochromatic. Fashionable cushioned and upholstered sleigh bed also available including completely covered with leather or mix wood or another material brings bed in style.