Wrought Iron Books Article
Wrought Iron Bed
In this day of plastic, cheaply made furniture, there is nothing better than
wrought iron bedroom furniture to take you back to how things used to be. Don\'t
get me wrong, I am not a crusty old dude. I\'m actually in my mid-20s, and in
many ways I love high tech things. I spend a lot of time on my computer surfing
the world wide web, I play electric guitar, I have a cell phone and an iPod.
Nonetheless, my most valued possession is my wrought iron bed frame.
I have seen a lot of wrought iron beds in my life, but this one is really
spectacular. It is exactly what you would think of when you try to picture a
wrought iron bed. It is as big and ornamental as your typical wrought iron
fence, in fact. It is solidly made with flourishes, flowers, and big iron lion\'s
feet at the bottom. It has actually been in my family for generations. My father
claims that it was a priceless antique, but my mother says that he is just being
silly. She says that there are thousands of wrought iron bed frames just like
this one out there, and it is not worth anything except it\'s sentimental value.
Whichever one of them is right, I love that wrought iron bed. I think it has to
do with how it looked to me when I was a kid. Most families start with furniture
for children, but in my family we have always used the same bed frames since we
were very little. That piece of wrought iron bedroom furniture really impressed
me as a kid. I actually thought the wrought iron bed was a fort. I would sit on
top of it for hours, playing with my toy knights and pretending to be defending
from a siege. I would battle imaginary armies, throwing small toy figures off
the bed and pretending that they were catapult stones until my mother would come
in and make me go to sleep.
The thing I like best about that wrought iron bed now is how solidly made it is.
It\'s not that other beds are badly made, but I appreciate the fact that I can
sit on the side of it and it doesn\'t creak one bit. The frame is completely
solid and will be completely solid for generations. You just simply do not get
quality like that anymore in most consumer products.
