Our homes, and how to beautify them . OUR HOMES,. THE BEDSTEAD. T OAK WITH CARVED PANEL. HE bedstead, as Ihave said, is an ex-ceedingly important pieceof furniture, though itmust be admitted thatits importance does notdepend very much uponthe visible part of itsform. A ten-and-sixpennyjapanned iron bedstead,with a good springmattress, may invite tiredNatures sweet restorerquite as .satisfactorily as the most beautifully carved tester. No article of domestic furniture has undergone such a revolution as the bedstead. For several centuries the canopied bed, with its four tall posts and heavily co
Our homes, and how to beautify them . OUR HOMES,. THE BEDSTEAD. T OAK WITH CARVED PANEL. HE bedstead, as Ihave said, is an ex-ceedingly important pieceof furniture, though itmust be admitted thatits importance does notdepend very much uponthe visible part of itsform. A ten-and-sixpennyjapanned iron bedstead,with a good springmattress, may invite tiredNatures sweet restorerquite as .satisfactorily as the most beautifully carved tester. No article of domestic furniture has undergone such a revolution as the bedstead. For several centuries the canopied bed, with its four tall posts and heavily corniced canopy, and close-drawn bed hangings, held its own m defiance of every rule of hygiene and common-sense. In the Elizabethan times, and down to the early part of the 18th Century, oak was the wood chiefly employed in the bedstead, and the construction was invariably massive as befitted such a wood, and more or less overladen with harsh and un- .sympathetic carving. The thick, heavy bulbous posts were ornamented with foliated work, coarse i
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