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Box-bed in Austria. A small box-bed (also known as a closed bed, close bed, or enclosed bed; less commonly, shut-bed [1]) is an enclosed bed made to look like a cupboard, half-opened or not. The form originates in western European late medieval furniture. The box-bed is closed on all sides by panels of wood.
Patent issued to Sarah E. Goode for the folding bed cabinet Born in 1855 in Toledo , Ohio to Oliver and Harriet (Kaufman) Jacobs, Goode was originally named Sarah Elisabeth Jacobs. [ 2 ] When she was young, her father worked as a waiter, and her mother kept the house. [ 3 ]
A bathroom cabinet is a cabinet in a bathroom, most often used to store hygiene products, toiletries, and sometimes also medications such that it works as an improvised medicine cabinet. There are two main types of bathroom cabinets: vanity cabinets which are usually placed under sinks and mirror cabinets which are usually placed over sinks or ...
The Trumpington bed burial is an early Anglo-Saxon burial of a young woman, dating to the mid-7th century, that was excavated in Trumpington, Cambridgeshire, England in 2011. The burial is significant both as an example of a bed burial , and because of the ornate gold pectoral cross inlaid with garnets that was found in the grave.
Illustration of a bathroom from the early 20th century, in which appear a bathtub, two towels, a toilet, a sink and two mirrors. A bathroom is a room in which people wash their bodies or parts thereof.
It might be stored in a cabinet with doors to hide it; this sort of nightstand was known as a commode, hence the latter word came to mean "toilet" as well. For homes without these items of furniture, the chamber pot was stored under the bed. The modern commode toilet and bedpan, used by bedbound or disabled persons, are variants of the chamber pot.
This included canopy beds and mahogany and hickory armoires with built-in mini-bars, and the wood-burning fireplaces (in those rooms equipped with them) were restored to operation. [5] Each room was also outfitted with a 25-inch (64 cm) television, marble bathroom sinks, and new bed frames and mattresses. [17]
Henry VII's bed is the only complete bed frame to survive this destruction, the only other Royal bed artefact being a fragment of the headboard of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves. [1] The bed reappeared in 1842, when it was apparently found by a George Shaw who seems to have sold copies of it without knowing its true significance.