Wooden Beds
Wooden beds and bedsteads originally started life as matching items to be purchased with freestanding bedroom furniture. The huge increase in new housing after the Second World War created demand for mass produced, less bulky, bedroom furniture, however, whilst there was a huge increase in the manufacture of foil veneered bedroom furniture, beds and bedsteads could not be effectively made from the same utility type material. This heralded the start of the manufacture of solid pine furniture and the opportunity of buying matching pine wooden beds or bedsteads.
Originally the wooden beds were typically in knotty pine and were based around turned spindle features in the wooden beds head and foot end.
The next development was antique stain pine bedroom furniture, which then created a demand for wooden beds and wooden bedsteads in the same material.
The availability of pine spindle wooden beds and particularly the warm coloured antique stain began to create a demand for the wooden beds in their own right. Manufacturers started to create solid panel designs as alternatives to spindle wooden beds and a whole new generation of pine wooden beds designs began to flood the bed market.
Wooden beds and bedsteads in other more traditional materials, continued to be available but effectively the rising costs of raw materials created high prices that only the wealthy could afford.
As UK manufacturers wrestled with rising production costs, bed retailers started to look further afield for their supplies of wooden beds and bedsteads leading to the importation of pine wooden beds from Brazil and South Africa, which pre dated the importation of metal and leather bedsteads from the Far East.
Initially there were issues with the quality of wooden bedsteads with unseasoned timber cracking in centrally heated homes and effectively UK pine wooden bed manufacturers could not compete. Today there are only a handful of specialised pine wooden bed manufacturers remaining in the UK.
The sourcing of pine wooden beds and wooden bedsteads from the Far East became attractive, particularly from Vietnam, a country with huge natural resources of many different types of timber. Coupled with the facility to import slow growing high quality pine from New Zealand, this resolved any quality issues relating to the wooden beds and also ensured the timber came from sustainable resources.
Today our pine wooden bed and wooden bedstead ranges feature only New Zealand pine. We have also had great success with American Oak wooden beds, bedsteads and wooden bedroom furniture.
White American Oak is of high quality, has very few knots and is regarded as one of the finest for making oak furniture. The natural graining of the timber, when hand polished with wax, creates a beautifully natural finish to what are, very high quality products, be they wooden beds, wooden bedsteads or wooden bedroom furniture.
You may rest assured that all our wooden beds and wooden bedsteads are manufactured from either solid New Zealand Pine or American White Oak. Many other retailers offer laminated oak wooden beds and, on occasions, will try to pass off much less expensive Ash furniture or wooden beds as higher quality Oak. Make sure you check this out before you buy wooden beds or bedsteads from anyone other than BedSupermarket.
Antique stain pine wooden beds and wooden bedsteads remain extremely popular and offer excellent value for what are solid timber wooden beds. We can also rightly claim that we have the best Oak wooden beds and bedsteads at the very lowest prices.
We only supply wooden beds and wooden bedsteads that have been proven to originate from sustainable sources and managed woodlands.
