We all need a decent amount of sleep each day to func­tion well, and to gen­er­ally stay healthy. And what’s a bed­room with­out organic bed­room fur­ni­ture? The bed is the key ele­ment of the bed­room, and will be one of the top con­cerns when pick­ing out bed­room fur­ni­ture. With this in mind, peo­ple who are look­ing to pro­cure fan­tas­tic bed­room fur­ni­ture might do well to look into an Amish bed.

Amish fur­ni­ture is renowned to be of great qual­ity and to always use excel­lent mate­ri­als, with a hun­dred per­cent wood, and with­out the use of par­ti­cle boards or the like. The use of gen­uine hard­woods guar­an­tees that buy­ers will get the high­est qual­ity fur­ni­ture — these are largely designed for longevity, and can even­tu­ally become heir­looms and antiques. Every one of the frames of an Amish bed will be made from one hun­dred per­cent the hard­wood of the consumer’s select­ing, with bot­tom slats ( that sup­port the mat­tress ) made from solid poplar.

Fur­ni­ture made from organic mate­ri­als does not give off gases and tox­ins that are given off by fur­ni­ture made of arti­fi­cial mate­ri­als. These tox­ins can acquire in the home, and enter the body through inhala­tion or skin con­tact. Syn­thetic bed­room fur­ni­ture can be espe­cially harm­ful, because the bed­room is where we sleep and rest — sleep­ing each night in the bed­room means that the the fur­ni­ture you keep in there are some of those to which you are exposed to the most. Babies and small chil­dren are espe­cially more sus­cep­ti­ble to these tox­ins than adults, and though the body has means to remove some of the tox­ins, it can only do so much if they accumulate.

A bed frame might be made of dif­fer­ent types of hard­woods, such as cherry and wal­nut. Once the cus­tomer has cho­sen the kind of wood, the bed is then begun to be man­u­fac­tured by an Amish crafts­man. Because they are made-to-order, Amish beds can be cus­tomized to a consumer’s indi­vid­ual wishes. They are made to fit standard-sized mat­tresses or a cus­tom size, and have diverse designs avail­able. Size changes that are com­monly adopted include a higher bed frame, or mod­i­fi­ca­tions on the size of the head­board. Patrons can also opt to include a footrail, which is equiv­a­lent to the rails to the left and right of the mat­tress, and is a com­mon choice for taller peo­ple (this can also reduce the cost of the bed ). They can also choose to have more bed slats installed, depen­dent on what sort of mat­tress or box spring they are going to use. Another cus­tom option can be the addi­tion of shelves with poplar or cedar lin­ing beneath the bed, which can either be detach­able or attached to the bed’s frame. Amish crafts­men are famous for the art they infuse in their work — their pieces are unique, with great atten­tion paid to the impor­tant points of the wood being used in a spe­cific piece of fur­ni­ture. Their abil­i­ties are passed down from gen­er­a­tion to gen­er­a­tion, and the fur­ni­ture they cre­ate is not just aes­thet­i­cally pleas­ing, but also long-lived. For the cen­tre­piece of the bed­room, an Amish bed is one that any client search­ing for a good, solid wood organic piece will not go wrong with.

Organic mat­tress are made with organic ingre­di­ents such as wool and cot­ton, free of the pes­ti­cides and other tox­ins that come from flame retar­dants that are present in other mat­tresses. Stan­dard mat­tresses are gen­er­ally made with a core of polyurethane froth, a flam­ma­ble and made mate­r­ial that needs flame retar­dants. It’s the flame retar­dants that will be lethal to health, with research stud­ies link­ing PDBEs, boric acid, ammo­nium polyphos­phate, melamine, and sil­ica (all com­mon flame retar­dants ) to gen­eral decay in health. PDBEs are linked to con­di­tions such as thy­roid hor­mone dis­rup­tion, decreased sperm count, behav­ioral changes, hear­ing defects, and even can­cer in lab­o­ra­tory ani­mals, while boric acid is a com­par­a­tively safe pes­ti­cide that can be deadly when acci­den­tally ingested, and can enter the blood­stream through inhala­tion. An organic mat­tress, on the other hand, is formed of nat­u­rally fire-resistant and breath­able wool, nat­ural latex from the sap of rub­ber trees, and organic cot­ton, which do not require poten­tially dam­ag­ing fire retar­dant chemicals.

Select­ing organic bed­room fur­ni­ture can do won­ders in terms of in pro­vi­sions improv­ing your family’s well-being. The appear­ance of naturally-made fur­ni­ture can already give that aura of pure­ness. Going organic also implies less expo­sure to dam­ag­ing poi­sons that may cause any­thing from aller­gies to poten­tially seri­ous health issues. It is def­i­nitely an added ben­e­fit that these pieces of fur­ni­ture are able to sup­port the rus­tic Mid­west­ern econ­omy sig­nif­i­cantly, with the use of woods har­vested from states in the Upper Mid­west and the use of the skills of Amish fur­ni­ture crafts­men. With the numer­ous cus­tomiza­tions avail­able with Amish beds and organic mat­tresses, clients can be assured of a beau­ti­ful and unique piece of bed­room fur­ni­ture, and a great and fit­ter call for the family.