We also spent the weekend working on a house project, a new (old) bed-frame to celebrate our new, non-postage-stamp-sized bedroom! Whereas having a bed-frame of any kind would have been an impossibility at St. Marks (the length of our bed was the width of the room itself), the spacious bedroom at Hancock St. allowed us to realize our dream of having a real live headboard like a pair of adults! We had both fallen for the Jenny Lind style bed, a beautiful spooled bed named for the opera singer Jenny Lind, during a JL-naming craze sometime in the 1850s! The problem was antique (and reproduction) JL beds are mad expensive, and the antiques tend to be too small, as apparently everbody in ye olde times slept in a double bed.
After much searching, Molly located a chippy JL bed frame (only an inch too short on each side, nothing short of a miracle!) in Westfield, NJ for only 65 dollars! As soon as her workday allowed, we zoomed off to NJ and retrieved a very dusty head and footboard from a man’s garage. Back at home, we sipped rose and cleaned the grimy pieces from head to toe. At the moment, we like the shabby chic aspect of the weathered white paint, but at some point in the future, we may strip it and enjoy the beautiful (not-too) cherry wood underneath.
A history of the spool bed:
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