Bed Plans (119)
A bed is a piece of furniture or location primarily used or intended for resting upon, but can serve other functions, such as providing a place for sexual intercourse and/or relaxing.
Beds come in a wide array of shapes and sizes. Early beds were little more than piles of straw or some other natural materials. An important change was raising them off the ground, to avoid drafts, dirt, and pests.
There are many varieties of bed:
- An adjustable bed is a bed that can be adjusted to a number of different positions
- An air bed uses an air-inflated mattress, sometimes connected to an electric air pump and having firmness controls.
- A bassinet is a bed specifically for newborn infants.
- A box-bed is a bed having the form of a large box with wooden roof, sides, and ends, opening in front with two sliding panels or shutters; often used in cottages in Scotland: sometimes also applied to a bed arranged so as to fold up into a box.
- A brass bed, constructed from brass or brass-plated metal.
- A bunk is a bed used in a confined space.
- A bunk bed is two or more beds one atop the other. (See also: loft bed.)
- A captain's bed (also known as a chest bed or cabin bed) is a platform bed with drawers and storage compartments built in underneath.
- An infant's bed (also crib or cot) is a small bed specifically for babies and infants.
- A camp bed (also cot) is a simple, temporary, portable bed used by armies and large organizations in times of crisis.
- A daybed is a couch that is used as a seat by day and as a bed by night.
- A futon is a traditional style of Japanese bed that is also available in a larger Western style.
- A four poster bed is a bed with four posts, one in each corner, that support a tester.
- A hammock is a piece of suspended fabric.
- A hospital bed is specifically designed to facilitate convalescence, traditionally in a hospital or nursing facility, but increasingly in other settings, such as a private residence. Modern hospital beds commonly have wheels to assist in moderate relocation, but they are larger and generally more permanently placed than a gurney. The hospital bed is also a common unit of measurement for the capacity of any type of inpatient medical facility, though it is just as common to shorten the term to bed in that usage.
- A Manjaa is traditional Punjabi bed made of tied ropes bordered by a wooden frame.
- A Murphy bed is a bed that can hinge into a wall or cabinet to save space.
- A pallet is a thin, lightweight mattress.
- A platform bed is a mattress resting on a solid, flat raised surface, either free-standing or part of the structure of the room.
- A sofabed is a bed that is stored inside a sofa.
- A state bed developed in Early Modern Europe from a hieratic canopy of state.
- A trundle bed or truckle bed is a bed usually stored beneath a twin bed.
- A vibrating bed is typically a coin-operated novelty bed found in a vintage motel. For a fee, the matress vibrates for a duration of time.
- A waterbed is a bed/mattress combination where the mattress is filled with water.
- An iron bed, developed in the 1850s, is constructed of iron and steel.
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