Beds

Measure the turn in your staircase before anything else. A bed is the one piece of furniture people get right on paper and wrong on the landing and a carved headboard in solid sheesham does not bend. All our frames come apart, side rails bolt out of the posts and the slat base lifts off, so 2 people can carry it up in sections.

Now the part nobody asks about until later, which is the base. We use wide wooden slats set into the rails with a gap between them, so the mattress breathes from underneath and does not go damp in the monsoon the way it will on a solid ply board. Storage beds are here as well, either hydraulic lift or drawers in the side and the lift is worth the extra if you are the one making the bed every morning.

On sizes, a queen is enough for 2 adults until a child starts coming in at 3 in the morning, then it is not and people buy the king the second time around. Headboards run from plain panels to pierced carving and the plain ones are easier to live with against a wall you have already painted.