Beds are the soul of a bedroom.
They are indeed the centrepiece that can make or break the look of your whole bedroom.
A bedroom is incomplete and looks lost and soulless without a good, elegant and beautiful bed piece.
While deciding the look for your bedroom, it is extremely important to choose the right frame type and size for perfect and impressive styling of the room.
While choosing the best bed for your room, you need to keep three key factors in mind: the space available, existing furniture and the aesthetics.
Now days, royal and ethnic theme is a hot favourite amongst many people.
To attain this look a traditional looking and imposing single four poster bed is the best option.
Four poster beds, also known as Canopy beds, have found a special place in the cozy and luxurious houses in the United Kingdom and USA.
These beds were considered a privilege and a luxury item for the rich and affluent.
However, now these are within the reach of the common man who wants to pursue these luxurious, though affordable, pursuits.
You can get them easily from various furniture manufacturers, showrooms or online.
They are available in various sizes, designs and woods to suit the different requirements of people, like space available, budget, etc.
These luxurious and ultra comfortable single four poster beds have interesting history of their evolution.
These were evolved due to the various difficulties faced by people in the olden times.
There are many different versions of their evolution.
Thus, their following story of evolution also highlights their beneficial characteristics and functions: - Protection-from stinging insects and mosquitoes: in the middle age, people used to build thatched roofs, which provided little or no protection from the stinging, and often poisonous and fatal attacks, of insects like mosquitoes, caterpillars, mice, snakes, lizards, etc.
Especially during the monsoons, these insects used to fall on the sleeping people and attack them.
To prevent and reduce such nasty events people started erecting four posters on each corners of their beds and cover these with a cloth, usually a sheet.
Thus, what today is considered as a luxurious piece of furniture or an ostentatious furniture pieces adorning the rooms of the affluent, was a practical invention born out of necessity in those times.
- Provided Privacy: The affluent rich of the earlier times have a different tale to tell.
In those times, everyone from the rich landlord, his family and servants used to sleep together in big room.
Thus, these single four poster beds used to provide the much needed privacy to the couples.
Now, however, all houses have separate bedrooms for everyone, these beds have become style statements.
In those times these were a mere practical solution or a necessity and were normally made at homes, or were available in rugged forms.