Metal Headboards

If you are currently considering the purchase of a headboard, why not check out the range of metal headboards? Above all else, a metal headboard offers a certain unique Victorian look to a bed and opens up a variety of bedroom interior design possibilities.

Metal Headboard

If you enjoy a taste of luxury to your furniture, the metal-framed bed is most definitely the way to go! No longer are we forced into the world of upholstered foamed wooden headboards…not unless you choose to be that is!

Although the metal headboard has a function (that of resting station for the pillows) it offers something of a decorative element to the whole bed. With a metal headboard, your bed will become more of a centre feature of your bedroom…and why ever not? A bed should take centre stage rather than be relegated to the corner recesses of the room. A bed should take pride of place in your favourite room.

Where brass bed frames and headboards are pretty common in the stores these days, iron was actually the main metal of choice for a pre-World War I bed. Dating back to the mid nineteenth century, the iron bed frame was crafted by hand. Casting was applied by hand as too were the intricate finishes and the finished product was the result of several days of crafting and application. Beds following the First World War went on to become mass-produced without the care and attention that the craftsmen who worked in a small iron foundry would have applied. When the small foundries closed and replaced by bed frame mass production outlets, the days of the beautifully handcrafted bed were numbered.

An iron bed today is manufactured with strengthened heavy gauge steel tubing and are designed to attract the eye of the traditional as well as the contemporary design bed purveyor. Beds that are completely built from iron are gradually making way for the slatted base made from beech wood. This combined with a metal frame produces the perfect base from which to rest a mattress.

Today the metal headboards and bed frames are produced to resemble the Victorian and Edwardian ages in their design without the hand made intricacies that could be found on the originals. Whether your interior preferences are those of the Victorian or Edwardian eras or you have a liking for contemporary design, there is a metal headboard out there to suit you.