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Pete Coleman shares his feelings on the benefits of Rustic beds
Solid wooden rustic bed designs celebrate the relationship we have with natural materials in the home. The desire to bring nature into our homes has never been more popular than it is right now. More and more people are embracing the urge to bring nature into our homes. Perhaps this feeling comes from the ‘always on’ connection we now have with technology. The desire to reconnect with nature could be a direct response to the dominance of technology in our lives and our innate reluctance to remove ourselves from the natural world. Regardless of the whys and wherefores, choosing to furnish your home with solid wooden furniture is ultimately a great way to reconnect with nature.
There are a number of ways in which you could describe rustic beds, the terminology is open to interpretation. Of course, we assume certain things like the choice of material mostly being of real wood rather than metal or man-made materials such as MDF. We also generally believe that we are talking about a relatively simple design that doesn’t overcomplicate the use of materials or that isn’t aimed above our social standing.
The rustic design is a far more down-to-earth, humble design. Skilled furniture makers must handcraft rustic bed designs so the correct level of care and attention can be used in the production of the joints, making the bed in such a way that it serves its owners for a lifetime. Ashton & Coleman beds are made in a way that shows off the saw marks and machine marks from production, once waxed with a natural beeswax or wax oil their wooden furniture comes alive with character and a story unique to each individual piece of timber used in their designs.
Due to the quality of natural wooden rustic beds that are made with traditional woodworking joints and techniques with high-quality timbers, the value is literally endless. The simplicity of design and manufacture combined with the use of high-quality timbers means that once you own a solid wood bed made by Ashton & Coleman you will never need to look for another, it will literally last forever. That’s why they happily and confidently offer lifetime guarantees on all of their solid wood beds.
Rustic handmade beds made by true artisans bring other important benefits such as the unique aesthetic of each individual bed. Your bed is your bed, there is no other bed like it. The character shown in each plank of timber used, every knot, grain pattern and saw mark is completely and utterly unique. This connection becomes personal to you and your history, knitted into the fabric of your life. The people who spend time in your home will also become attached to a memory of those pieces of furniture which had that individual character.
Another important benefit of choosing natural wooden furniture relates to the impact manufacturing has on the environment. If Ashton & Coleman were to make a wooden bed for every person in the country and the population level never increased, we would never need to make another bed again. Therefore cutting trees down for the manufacture of beds would stop, and the forests would completely grow back again. You will not find a more eco-friendly, sustainable, naturally beautiful bed design.
As mentioned, the interpretation of the term rustic bed is open to each individual’s assumptions. You may think of log-style beds, beds made by pallet wood or random pieces of reclaimed wood of different species nailed together. You may be thinking of wrought iron bed designs from the Victorian era or even barn wood beds. The way in which different makers choose to construct their designs blended with their choice of finishing products vastly alters the end result and overall quality and look.
Ashton & Coleman hold the style and design of their furniture and the quality of manufacture in equal importance. The look and finish must not be more important than the quality of manufacture and visa versa. Using natural waxes and oils is a common choice made by artisans and makers due to the natural look and smell they give when used with natural wood.
The beauty about natural wood rustic beds is that their simple design, with clean lines and a natural finish means they blend with a wide variety of interiors and interior styles. You can add a rustic bed to a very modern room design to give a juxtaposition to the modernity of the room, you can create an entire theme surrounding natural materials with either a relaxed theme of simplicity and minimalism, or a warm rustic log cabin style featuring a whole array of matching pieces of rustic furniture.
The choice of flooring, wall decor, joinery and colour theme can drastically alter the way a rustic bed is perceived. The creative choices are endless. We find that complimenting your rustic wooden bed with natural linen bedding, authentic Moroccan-style rugs, basket-weaved light shades and interesting modern art really brings the room together in a calm and relaxing way.
At Ashton & Coleman, we are masters of handmade furniture with an equal measure of quality and character. We have and will always keep our focus on simplicity. As little as ten extremely effective identical mortice and tenon joints make up one of our beds. The joints are glued and pegged when fixed and will never break. The beds can be put together and taken apart a hundred times and will be as solid on the hundredth assembly as it was on the first.
Our Beds look even better when coupled with Smeaton Mattresses and our bedside tables, blanket boxes and under-bed storage.
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I'm Pete Coleman, an experienced Joiner and woodworker. It's my pleasure to present to you Ashton & Coleman Furniture.
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