FINALLY I HAVE A BED.
Full size mattress, "Eastlake" style, solid American walnut, c. 1870-1890--cause I've been sleeping on the floor, or in a hammock, or on the couch, or in a chair pretty much every night since I was in high school, and it sucks. The floor is nice but I would just as soon sleep in a bed like the functioning adult man I'm trying to gradually become.
Finding an older bedframe is good because they are so much cheaper than a new one. I do not have new-furniture money, at all, and have checked ALL the thrift shops, finding no quality beds, just falling-apart stuff and mattresses that I don't actually want to touch. Checked out a nice shop full of modern furniture but everything in there was priced outrageously, and done in all the latest colors of Sad Beige, Dull Greige, HGTV Dull, and Birdcrap. Modern furniture is so self-consciously trendy, but it doesn't match my horrible, tacky taste in furniture at all. When you're finding $300 beds in Goodwill of all places, you are out of luck. I got very lucky at an antique dealer because they wanted to get this thing off the floor.
Victorian furniture is a drug on the market & a lot of dealers about can't give it away. I picked it up for $149 after waiting & waiting for it to come down in price. Mid-century modern wouldn't have waited this long; I got quite lucky here (especially considering what things go for in Goodwill.)
Average price of antique beds is between $300 to $1,600 so I got lucky on this one; it's also in better condition than most that I've come across. It's almost all original right down to the varnish and the old porcelain casters underneath--which means less time repairing what someone else "fixed" and more time prepping for a good night's snooze.
I'm very thankful & terribly excited to have been able to find a functional frame I can actually keep for a long time.
Full size mattress, "Eastlake" style, solid American walnut, c. 1870-1890--cause I've been sleeping on the floor, or in a hammock, or on the couch, or in a chair pretty much every night since I was in high school, and it sucks. The floor is nice but I would just as soon sleep in a bed like the functioning adult man I'm trying to gradually become.
Finding an older bedframe is good because they are so much cheaper than a new one. I do not have new-furniture money, at all, and have checked ALL the thrift shops, finding no quality beds, just falling-apart stuff and mattresses that I don't actually want to touch. Checked out a nice shop full of modern furniture but everything in there was priced outrageously, and done in all the latest colors of Sad Beige, Dull Greige, HGTV Dull, and Birdcrap. Modern furniture is so self-consciously trendy, but it doesn't match my horrible, tacky taste in furniture at all. When you're finding $300 beds in Goodwill of all places, you are out of luck. I got very lucky at an antique dealer because they wanted to get this thing off the floor.
Victorian furniture is a drug on the market & a lot of dealers about can't give it away. I picked it up for $149 after waiting & waiting for it to come down in price. Mid-century modern wouldn't have waited this long; I got quite lucky here (especially considering what things go for in Goodwill.)
Average price of antique beds is between $300 to $1,600 so I got lucky on this one; it's also in better condition than most that I've come across. It's almost all original right down to the varnish and the old porcelain casters underneath--which means less time repairing what someone else "fixed" and more time prepping for a good night's snooze.
I'm very thankful & terribly excited to have been able to find a functional frame I can actually keep for a long time.
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