Sheesham Four Poster Bed with Pierced Carved Crest

Photographed without a mattress on purpose, so you can see the slatted base once before it goes under one for good.

Wide wooden slats run the full width, spaced out and set into the side rails, so the mattress breathes from underneath and you do not need a separate ply board.

The headboard rises to a jaali crest, a centre motif with bel buti cut clean through and swept up to a point. Below the arched rail sits a panel of the same jaali work with turned spindles on either side, and lower still a 2nd row of spindles closing the gap to the side rails.

The footboard is one heavy turned rail sitting on a row of small balusters, low enough to see the room over.

The posts go up in stages, a long taper above and heavy bulb shapes below the rail line, with a diamond cut into the block at mattress height. They carry an open canopy frame at the top with nothing fitted to it, so it is there for the look and for a machhardani if you want one.

Measure the ceiling before you measure the room, because a false ceiling with cove lights in it will not clear the posts.