Little girls are supposed to want ponies, but I never wanted a pony. As a child, I dreamed of having a canopy bed. I knew exactly what it would look like, too. I had one picked out in the JC Penney catalog, with an arched top and ruffly lavender curtains.
I never did get that bed, and now that I'm all grown my tastes have changed a little — but I still find myself drawn to canopy beds. These sleek, modern examples are sans lavender ruffles - but still plenty romantic just the same.
Top row:
1. All white from House to Home.
2. Classic textures and modern shapes for a look that's timeless and clean. From Style at Home
3. A campaign canopy bed from C Magazine.
4. A mirrored four-poster reads just a bit feminine without being twee. From Design*Sponge.
5. A calm white four-poster from Better Homes and Gardens.
Bottom row:
6. This unusual four-poster from Lyndsay and Fitzhugh's Summer Cottage in the City is hand-carved from beech wood.
7. Jonathan Adler's Parker Palm Springs.
8. Penny, Petra & Sydney's Gorgeous, Artful Home
9. Australian Vogue via Mark Tuckey
10. Four-poster + platform bed = perfection. From Space Furniture.
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• At-Home Escapes: Canopy Beds
• Favorite Canopy Beds: From Feminine Chic to Masculine
• Don't Call it a Comeback: Four Poster Beds
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Is what makes them modern the fact that there is no fabric hanging from the frame?
Actually teh second picture made me think of Victorian/Edwardian campaign decor, all it needs is a man with a sharp moustache and jodhpurs.
Ooh I'd LOVE a canopy bed...but my bed is already quite high up off the floor, plus the ceiling are low so I guess I'm S.O.L.
Maybe I could do a valance/curtain thingy at the back and a little way down the sides?
Hmmm...
I want the one with the Christmas lights!
I'm finding myself oogling everything BUT the canopies. Those are nice too though, lol.
We actually just got a canopy bed yesterday - the architecture bed from r&b!
I've been thinking about getting one with draping for a bedroom that has big beautiful clerestory windows that I don't want to cover. Otherwise there is no sleeping in, which is just mean. Can anyone find good examples with the fabric done in a modern style?
Re: IKEA four-posters... my boyfriend and I have the Edland in white, and it's turned out to be not very good quality at ALL :(
We got it for free (which was great) and I think we did a pretty thorough job building it, but it's gotten so ridiculously squeaky over the past 8 or so months that whenever one of us turns over in bed during the night, the other wakes up from the noise every single time. It's awful. It's the squeakiest bed I've ever sat on, and we don't know how to fix the problem. I guess you get what you pay for... I don't remember the last time I slept all the way through the night :(
@USERNAME26,
Thanks for the info. I have a squeaky bed too (the frame is wood) and it never used to do that. It is driving me insane. I desire sleep and I am really hoping that your solution will help.
I find myself enjoying the design elements more than the canopies in this collection of pictures too. The canopies are nice too--I'm just not that into them.
I love most of these beds and have been searching for a canopy bed for a year. Any sourcing info on any of them? Especially the white ones.
I too always dreamed of a canopy bed as a child. Either that or a built-in bed with curtains to close it off. I now have a shaker-style ash canopy bed that was made in Vermont and is quite sturdy. There are slats and a bucky board (large flat upholstered board) on which the mattress rests. I love the enclosed, protected feeling the posts and canopy structure give me, the sturdiness of the bed, and the simplicity of the design. I wish the bed was a bit taller, though. It's only six feet, so it lacks the elegant height of some of these shown here. But it does fit well under an average-height ceiling.
Me too! No desire for a pony, but I also circled all the frilly canpoy beds in the JC Penny catalog. My mother told me they were "tacky" (I had a pencahnt for giant florals), so, alas, I never got my dream bed.
I have a canopy bed now (very clean lines, like the first photo) and I often debate whether to hang curtains and fulfill my childhood dream.
Does JCP even issue catalogs anymore?