'Platform Beds: The history of this bedroom furniture sub-category'

Platform Beds: The history of this bedroom furniture sub-category

By Platform Beds at 09/14/08 00:37

Many types of furniture often have specific sub-categories beneath them such as living room furniture, dining room furniture, patio furnishings and many others. The bedding industry is no different. Its often divided into many sub-categories like iron beds, wall beds, waterbeds, futons, day beds and platform beds. Let's talk a little bit about platform beds and what sets them apart for other types beds.

Platform beds are an interesting sub-category of beds in that they take the standard components of a bed which include a headboard, footboard and rails. Then incorporate either a solid foundation that gets built into the bed system or is configured with a slat support system that consists of usually 10 or more slats. The idea behind the platform bed is that these are beds that require only a mattress as they have a specific foundation already built into the frame.

The platform bed has been around for centuries. The earliest type of platform bed dates back to Neolithic times. A settlement uncovered in Northern Scotland called Skara Brae dating back to the late Neolithic era revealed homes that consisted of stones arranged to create primitive dressers amd large stone slabs arranged like modern day beds in these rooms. They were thought to be covered with ferns or animal skins for bedding and could be considered the earliest form of platform bed.

Today's platform beds use materials like solid woods such as oak, maple or ash. Some are made from steel. While others are made from imported materials like ramin or bamboo. Modern platform beds borrow from many of the established furniture building techniques that came from advances in knowledge of wood working. These may have been bench built pieces of furniture all the way to current production line techniques.

Platform beds as a sub-category of beds established itself by allowing for the use of just a mattress. This was developed by building a foundation into the platform bed by incorporating either a slat system or solid foundation. Platform beds date back to Neolithic times when they were nothing more than simple stone slabs close to the ground. Today's platform beds use modern materials and design techniques allowing for interesting styles and looks that couldn't be achieved before.

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