Having been in the business of designing and making wooden beds for more than 30 years, we've adopted our own combination of traditional joinery and contemporary technology to build wooden-slatted beds with the style and elegance to look great in your home and the strength and durability to provide years of service.

Selecting timber and building your bed

All our beds are made from kiln dried Scandinavian pine from sustainable sources. This means that every tree harvested for timber is replaced by the planting of another, helping to maintain biodiversity.

The basic construction of a slatted wooden bed is simple. Four bedposts stand at the corners. The two at the head end are spanned by some kind of headboard, even if the design requires little more than a cross member. The same arrangement is repeated at the foot end. Two long side rails then connect the head and foot ends, one on each side. This creates a rigid rectangular frame, raised from the floor by the posts. Fixed to the inside of each side rail, there is a sturdy wooden batten, to support the slats. For extra support, on our double and king-size beds, there is also a central beam, running from the centre of the headboard to the footboard. The slats are then arranged along the frame to support the mattress.

The advantages of this construction over a divan bed are many. First of all, there are no springs to wear out in the base, and the wooden slats actually provide superior support. Slats also allow free circulation of air under the mattress, keeping it well ventilated and so is more hygienic. Furthermore, timber slatted beds are easily dismantled and transported. Another advantage, of course, is the handy storage space available beneath the bed.

We combine the best of traditional and modern joinery techniques in the production of your bed. Traditional mortise-and-tenon joints are employed in the making of our headboards and footboards. For the assembly of your bed, however (joining side rails to headboard and footboard) we use the ‘Firm Fix’ patented connector system, which was designed and manufactured by a specialist-engineering firm located in Nottinghamshire.

'Firm Fix' fittings are now generally considered to be the best bed assembly system in the world, producing a rock solid joint, capable of supporting the weight of a car without loosening. The connectors are completely concealed within the bed structure, so that there are no unsightly fittings to spoil the appearance, and you can disassemble and reassemble your bed countless times without any weakening of the joints.

Designing your bed

Our design philosophy has always been to keep it simple. We try to avoid unnecessary frills or carvings. We believe that this not only keeps down prices, but also makes for better design.

When we add a new bed to our range, the first step is to build a prototype in our workshop. This is then placed in our northwest London showroom to give customers an opportunity to comment. We then take their views into account and, where necessary, make adjustments to the design. The prototype remains in our showroom, where we "live with it" for a few weeks. We consider this cooling off period to be a crucial part of the design evolution. Only if we're still happy with the new model after this period, do we incorporate it into our range.

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