The Victorian Bedroom

All of those cushions would have made them very expensive and therefore it was less common for these pieces of "modern" bedroom furniture to be prominent in a home. During the 900's through the 1700's, it was more common to find long wooden chest and rope beds. Even the best mattresses were made up of cushions and draperies, which were added to the construction of the rope bed.

Metal daybeds were unheard of and therefore most were wood daybeds. Their Design and Use One of the main ways that modern daybeds different from what we might see today is in their construction. They were often placed in a fainting room, a room usually off the parlor or in the main area of the home, where a woman could go to recover from fainting spells usually caused by overheating or a shortness of breath due to the tight fitting corsets she wore. In fact, you are not even likely to see this type of furniture within the bedroom at all. During Victorian times, what we would consider a modern daybed mattress and bedding was not the same as it was present at that time.

Imagine beautiful iron daybeds in a Victorian bedroom and you might imagine frills and extra bedding, but in fact, this is not likely to be the case.