Bed Styles

Your bed is the dominant design item in your bedroom. Seems obvious, but it's easily forgotten in the quest for the most comfortable mattress or appropriately sized frame. Choosing an appealing bed style can transform the ambience of an entire bedroom. Here are some ways how:

Platform Beds A platform bed is the simple and popular choice for those who want a clean and uncluttered look in their bedroom. But there's room to play if you're looking for alternative designs. Compare the look of wood, metal, or upholstered platform beds. The tapered posts and cabriole legs of a metal platform bed can transform simplicity into sophistication. Typical features of a platform bed include: four corner legs that lift bed frame off the floor simple, rectangular design, often without either head or footboard shorter frame heights and minimalist appearance

Sleigh Beds
Sleigh beds contribute a uniquely decorative look to any bedroom. With a little foresight, you can design an entire room around a sleigh bed's curves and scrolling head and footboards. You've abandoned the straight and narrow when you sleep on a sleigh bed.

Typical features of a sleigh bed include:

• large, regal-looking head and footboards
• scrolled, curved, or slanted head and footboards
• spacious and expansive frames, often made from metal or cherry wood

Canopy Beds
Canopy beds are ideal for those who want a touch of the exotic in their bedroom. Ornate and always chic, the overtly decorative quality of canopy beds will appeal to anyone who wants to sleep in an atmosphere of lushness and decadence. You'll reach past the snooze bar and turn the alarm off entirely when you're sleeping in a canopy bed.

Typical features of a canopy bed include:

• four corner posts with crossbeams for draping a canopy made of mesh, silk, fabric or other materials
• ornately decorative head and footboards made of slatted or carved wood, scrolled metal, or a handsome leather insert
• such flourishes as Corinthian or English Tudor styled pillar posts and serpentine metal canopy rails

Poster Beds
Though originally designed to insulate sleepers from wind drafts, poster beds have remained popular among those who value beauty for its own sake. The traditional design of poster beds is a smart alternative for those who find canopy beds too dramatic, yet still want their bedroom to have a little flair.

Typical features of a poster bed include:

• carved and oversized wooden corner posts without crossbeams
• grandly scaled frames and heavily worked headboards
• rich and warmly colored wood finish

Daybed
Daybeds are true originals. Whether hosting a standard daybed or a daybed with trundles for extra sleeping room, a room with a daybed is a guaranteed attention getter. For a relaxed and spacious look in your bedroom, daybeds will deliver every time.

Typical features of a daybed include:

• side and back panel design intended for seating or sleeping a twin-sized mattress
• pop-up or drawer trundles that can accommodate up to a king-sized bed
• versatile sofa/bed appearance suitable for any bedroom or sitting room