“The Chatsworth Bed – single beds and king size beds influenced by the regency period”

The versatile Regency style Chatsworth bed is as popular as a king size bed as a single bed.

There are four different variations for each size, so it's available from a 3'0" single bed right up to an eight foot bed including 4'0" or three quarter beds. The most popular sizes are 5'0" king size or 6'0" super king size.

Construction is completely traditional, with panels set in a rail and stile framework in the same way as in the 19th century. Each bedpost is topped off with a Regency urn that gives the bed its overall style.

The Regency period was the transition between the Georgian and Victorian era’s 1811 – 1820. It popularized painted furniture; a tradition that Revival beds are keen to explore and continue with their selection of five painted finishes. These include French Knicker Pink, Cornflower Blue and Ivory Cream. 

It’s also a period characterized by the excess of the aristocracy, distinctive fashions, politics and unusual architecture such as the Brighton Pavilion.

Usually one of the most difficult bedrooms to furnish is a child's or teenager's. Do you choose a single bed and then discard it or hand it down after a few years, or if you have the room do you go for a double or a king size bed, so that you only have to spend your money once? And, don’t forget it’s not just the bed you’re buying twice it’s also the mattress which can make things quite expensive if you go for memory foam mattress.

It can be very expensive to use oak beds in hotel bedrooms whether they’re single or double. Hoteliers use the Chatsworth single bed where they need stylish wooden single beds in twin bedrooms and in double rooms they go for the Chatsworth king size bed. 

Pictured right: the Chatsworth's Low Foot end finished in Mellow Brown.

Libby's Tips: Oak beds and oak four poster beds are very beautiful, very expensive and usually more highly prized than pine beds. An Oak bed has a unique colour but it is a colour that is quite similar to the distressed Oldwood finish. The distressing is especially important if you’re trying to match your bed into old and antique bedroom furniture. Beds made in the 1920’s were usually oak beds but are rarely found as king size beds, they are more usually double beds three quarter beds or 3’0” or single beds that were used in twin bedrooms.

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