Post by Craig Jenkins.

Do you have a sizable room that you want to furnish with a bed that takes advantage of that space? Maybe you want to consider a canopy bed. Canopy beds are great ways of filling up a room. Naturally a king or queen sized bed will eat up some of the horizontal space in any room you put it in, but a canopy bed makes use of not only the horizontal space, but also the vertical space. Pick the right one, and you’ll not only have a luxurious, regal sleeping space for yourself and your family, but you’ll also have a towering, majestic focal point for your room.

Better yet, canopy beds allow you to flex your creative muscles and introduce little personal design flourishes you wouldn’t normally be able to work into a smaller bed. You can trick out your canopy with extra trappings like curtains, drapes, lights, plants, and whatever else strikes your fancy. If you have the right room for it, and you want to add some extra three dimensional pop and kingly largess to your sleeping space, a canopy bed seems like the perfect option.

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Cairo Canopy Bed

Canopy beds present a number of design opportunities that normal beds don’t. What do you do with all those posts? Because of their increased height and surface, canopy beds allow you more opportunities to spice up the look of your bedroom and tie your room’s decor together. Here’s a few ideas for dressing your canopy bed. Take a look at these suggestions, and let your imagination run wild.

Drapes/Curtains

Run drapes along the length of the vertical canopy rods to add some color and texture to your canopy bed. Run canopy curtains along the length of the horizontal rods for the same effect.

Netting

Dressing a canopy bed in sheer mosquito netting and materials like it has its root in tropical cultures where it serves the practical purpose of keeping bugs away from sleepy heads, arms, legs, etc., but the look of sheer netting over a canopy bed is also aesthetically pleasing to some folks that don’t have the bug problem

Lights

Some people are known to run Christmas lights around canopy rods to liven things up. Stringing up lights along the length of the canopy rods can give your bed a warm glow about it. Keep safety in mind when considering this option, and be mindful of the risks involved with running wires around your bed.

Tapestries

Some people like to hang tapestries along the back face of their canopy bed. These usually hang on the wall behind the bed and can give an exotic feel to the proceedings.

Campaign Canopy Bed

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We are pretty sure this is a compliment. I like the sound of it anyway. Our hand-forged Campaign line has indeed been one of our most successful styles. We proportioned each bed carefully according to the model; that means overall height of the panel and dimension of the circle in the X pattern is unique to each model. Why you say? Because it is better that way; the mattress sits properly in a visual relationship to the overall design. Is it easier? Not really, more circles, different packing boxes etc. etc. But it does look better, more refined and that makes it worth the trouble. The Campaign comes as a canopy bed with a foot board, canopy bed w/o a foot board, a daybed, and a regular bed in all sizes or as a headboard alone. If you hit it right, you might even find one on our clearance page. Usually a model with the single X, but still nicely done. So that said, I am off to conqueror Europe, even with the exchange rate.

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