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The pun in the title is not intended but it succinctly encapsulates the current trend in bedroom furniture design and manufacturing. Historically Western culture has experienced an evolution in bedroom furniture that has seen advanced changes over a relatively short period of time. Our ancestors were lying on straw beds on the floor only a few centuries past; then they progressed to straw filled and subsequently horse hair filled mattresses. When wardrobes were made initially there were very roughly thrown together; resembling a large open cupboard. Eventually doors were added after some considerable time to give us the predecessor of our modern wardrobe. These would have been made from woods of whatever kind available in the locality.

There was however a two-speed development phases for bedroom furniture over the centuries. The aristocracy and wealthy merchant classes would have enjoyed quite luxurious items of bedroom furniture while the proletariat would have had to do with very basic functional rough- hewn pieces. Social class and wealth dictated the speed at which people could afford to enjoy better quality bedroom furniture but today in our affluent society the opportunity is available to everyone to acquire most bedroom furniture of their choice.

We have come thus far in our civilised advancement and now witness such innovation in design, materials and manufacturing technology that bedroom furniture is bucking past trends and is now producing designs, that could be described as post modern, that certainly seem to go against the grain. Bedroom furniture is available in other materials beside wood. Though metal bedsteads have been around for some time, innovative variations on the metal theme combining metal with wood and other materials such as rattan are advancing the whole concept of new beds and bedroom furniture. Beds of every conceivable shape and design emanating from different global traditional and ethnic origins are the latest development.

Oriental influences are impinging on our own European design traditions to give us the concept of floor level beds. These are freely available in various woods and other materials including bamboo and rattan, something that the general consumer has not been used to in the west. Design influences are emerging from every continent and luxury collections of all types of bedroom furniture are available at affordable prices to the regular consumer. Bedroom robes, chests of drawers and bedside units are also available in matching materials and designs to compliment the bedsteads and some of the new designs are almost post modern in appearance and finish. Wood finishes are strikingly attractive as are the painted versions and both reflect major advances in the manufacture of bedroom furniture.

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Damien Ryan is a professional author who has written lots of articles on various topics for one of the biggest online furniture store in UK. For information please visit: Bunk Beds Furniture