Bedroom Furniture Contemporary Choices: Beds

Buying bedroom furniture? Here are some ideas forvary outwardly in terms of the sizes listed above.
choosing a bed for a contemporary bedroom.- Daybed. Daybeds are twin beds. What makes them
Contemporary Bedroom Furniture: Planning a Bedspecial is that they can double as couches if you
Don't let your bed be an afterthought. Your bed willposition them against a wall. Being compact and
be the most prominent object in your room, so it hasversatile, daybeds are great for small spaces.
to go with your bedroom's theme, color-wise,- Platform. Platform beds are elegantly simple, fitting
size-wise, and style-wise. A huge bed in a small roomin with just about any style of decor.
will likely look out of place, as would a four-post bed- Sleigh bed. Sleigh beds have curved headboards and
in a room with sleek modern furnishings.foot boards that look like, well...a sleigh. There are
Bed Sizessimpler and more modern sleigh bed designs, so you
The most popular bed sizes are king, queen, twin andcan get one even if you are going for a more
the increasingly popular California king. A California kingmodern-looking room.
is narrow and long, rather than the traditional king- Four post bed. You know this bed already: it's the
bed's square shape. Just make sure you have theone with a post sticking up out of each corner. The
exact dimensions of your bed before you goposts can support a canopy, but the canopy is
mattress shopping, since bed manufacturersoptional.
sometimes don't follow the standard bed sizes- Pencil post bed. Pencil post beds are like four-post
exactly.beds, only the posts are tall and tapered like...well,
Bed Stylespencils. Harking back to their heyday in the 1700s,
Don't confuse bed sizes with bed styles. Bed stylespencil-post beds fit a room with colonial furnishings
refer to the headboard and footboard. The basis ofespecially well.
any bed is still the mattress and frame, which only