334 COTTAGE, FARM, AXD VILLA AllCIIITECTUIlE. 660. Tent Beds are in universal use, and scarcely require description. Fig. 697, to a scale of tliree eighths of an inch to a foot, shows the framing or woodwork of the bed : 697 Q a, b, c, is the bed frame, a and b being the side rails, and c the bottom rail ; d is the head-board which fixes into a groove in the head posts. These posts, being intended to be covered with that part of the bed hangings called the head piece, are made plain ; while the bottom posts, which are intended to be exposed, are generally turned or covered. Fig. 698 is a tent bedstead with the curtains complete. Fig. 699 is an iron tent bedstead, manufactured by Messrs. Cottam and Hallen, which costs, when two feel six inches wide, 56.t. 6d., and when five feet wide, 77.?. 661. Four-Post Bedsteads are more suitable for villas than for cottages, except perhaps the cheap and excellent ones made of wrought iron, which do not cost much more than a tent bed of the same materials. Four-post bedsteads, however, of every descri])- tion, are objectionable for cottagers, both on account of the room they take up, and the quantity of bed furniture which they require.
