Federal Bedroom Furniture

Enjoy the Beauty of Antique
and Federal Bedroom Furniture

How beautiful antique styles like Federal Furniutre will enahnce the appearance of your bedroom!  Well-kept, genuine antiques are well worth the investment, although such furniture isn't usually high-priced. 

E-Bay contains auctions of antique and federal bedroom furniture re-creations that will enhance your home with grace and style. 

Always popular are antique-style white bedboard bedroom sets that are resplendent of an era long past but still stunningly beautiful and in high demand. 

With this type of furniture, the preferred color terminology is "parchment" rather than "white." 

The bedboard sets include a high-topped, arched bedboard and, at the foot of the bed, an end panel that is either arched or straight.  You can also choose sets that contain end-posts if you prefer. 

The white parchment antiqued wood should be of high quality 100% hardwood that will easily hold the parchment stain.

A Primer on Antique and Federal Bedroom Furniture

Professional antique dealers and modern fine furniture makers will gladly explain this impressive furniture with a rich historical past, including the characteristics and motifs commonly found in antique-style federal bedroom furniture. In brief, this stunning furniture style is known internationally as "neoclassical." 

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In the United States, it's called "American Federal style," referring to the early days of our nation after the Revolutionary War.  Neoclassical furniture traces its heritage back to pre-war France and shows distinct influence by Roman-style furniture excavated at the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

But it was English cabinet maker George Hepplewhite that designed the Federal style that we know today.

Recognizing American Federal-style furniture - antique or recreated - is quite simple.  Look for bedroom furniture that makes use of "curvilinear" forms; straight across on the bed end piece, with a curved headboard. 

Slender, tapering bedposts are exquisite compliments to the head and end pieces.  Like tables and chairs of the same period, "turned" bed stand legs have a slight swell and a ball-like foot. 

These designs were introduced in the latter days of the 1800's.  "Turning" the wood is the mark of a master craftsman at work; that craftsman may have created the bedroom furniture two hundred years ago, or just yesterday. 

This type of furniture is not mass-produced, but carefully and painstakingly created piece by piece.

Federal-style beds are often inlaid with carved decorative designs that are simple but elegant.  White, or parchment, bedroom bedboard sets are sometimes created in American Federal style, but not often; the original furniture makers of the early 1800's mostly used darker hardwoods. 

When looking for genuine antique American Federal bedroom furniture or modern Federal creations, look for classic but simple designs, intricate workmanship and curvilinear forms. 

It's easy to imagine such furniture gracing the bedroom of First Lady Martha Washington; it can be yours as well.

 You'll  just seem to sleep better in a lovely new bedroom suite...
Patricia Taylor
     Boudoir Stylist

Federal Bedroom Furniture