How Platform Beds Create a Healthy Environment for Great Sleeping

Posted by HaikuDesigns on March 23rd, 2017

Avoid Dissonance at All Costs

Conventional beds that rely on box-springs and mattresses made from unnatural synthetic materials come with significant liabilities, such as toxic chemicals that can cause rashes and irritate lung tissue with unhealthy off-gassing, toxic materials that take a very long time to biodegrade in unforgiving, overflowing landfills. For thousands of years, human beings slept on beds and surfaces that were in tune with Nature’s organic ingredients, and somewhere along the way, we got lost. Just like the Internet, the Industrial Revolution had its pros and cons, and we’re still paying the painful price for those cons all these decades later. Since most synthetic base materials are made from unrenewablepetroleum, shame on Henry Ford for promoting the combustion-engine, and bless Baron  Karl von Drais for inventing the eco-friendly bicycle.

There Once Was a Note, Pure and Easy

On the other hand, hardwood platform beds, cotton futons and latex mattresses may represent the salvation of humanity in many ways, some of which date back centuries to much simpler times when people were in tune with the cycles and principles of Nature. Life in the distant past may have been harder in some ways but it was certainly purer in other ways. For example, humanity drank raw or unpasteurized milk from the time that cows walked the Earth, until the industrialized milk market allowed the milk to get contaminated from the feces of cows. As pathetic as it may sound, the milk tycoons' brilliant solution was to boil the milk until every natural element was rendered indigestible and/or toxic. Getting back to furniture, one thing you can count on when eco-friendly bedroom products end up in a landfill—which usually takes a long time—is that they’ll biodegrade almost as fast as cotton candy in acid rain.

Swing From a Canopy and Sing a New Song

Despite accusations of extravagance as a motivation, the canopy bed was invented for practical reasons. For example, curtains were hung from the elevated frame to enclose the sleeping space, which allowed the aristocrats of medieval Europe tocontain heat, as well as maintain privacy, since their attendants usually slept in the same bedroom. Meaning that canopy beds remained simple and unadorned, until the sixteenth century, when a trend developed that involved decorative and sometimes elaborate carvings of the headboards and posts, resulting in a vast wave of ornate canopy beds flooding the European domestic terrain.Until the early nineteenth century, in pre-republican China, a family's canopy bed was the most vital piece of furniture and it usually found itself at the center of a daughter's dowry. As a symbol of social status, canopy beds were frequently adorned with calligraphy and images of fertility, longevity, good fortune and marital bliss.

Modern canopy beds come in two major styles: contemporary or traditional.Most traditional canopy beds feature a Victorian  appearancewith intricate carvings and curtains with ruffles or pleats. However, modern canopy are more minimalist in design, and one of their unique characteristics is the utilization of slats. These slats serve 2 purposes: 1) they support the mattress;and 2) they allow air to circulate freely around it, which discourages the proliferation of dust-mites and allergens.

Consider honoring Mother Nature by purchasing a platform canopy bed from an eco-friendly furniture store.

About the Author : 

This article was written by Mark Klosterman who worked at Haiku Design. Since its inception, Haiku Designs has provided the finest collections of modern furniture for home and offices. It offers all kinds of bedroom , living room, dining room, office furniture items and more. Apart from this, Haiku Designs also offers natural bedding, floor covering and other accessories.