My son has a similar bed and I do like your last picture but tuck in the bedding at the bottom of the bed so the sides falls squarely by the posts.

I have a four poster with slats but mine are attached to the side rail. I like the way yours is lowered.

What I am going to do is put Velcro Command strips inside the side rails and footboard and attach a bedskirt. You might be able to do that if you can get any fabric under the angle irons. Or you could attach the Velcro to the bottom of the rails since your footboard has the same rail.

I have a four poster too & I wouldn't want to see the metal angle irons. My bedskirt is 3 separate pieces of fabric attached with velcro on the inside of the horizontal wood side rail, with a pleat at each angle iron. My bed has 3 angle irons on each side & one along the footboard. My bedspread covers the top of the wood side rail with most of the rail exposed. Since you have so many angle irons, you could attach the velcro on the outside of the wood rail & buy a bedspread big enough to cover the velcro. This would mean all of your wood rail would be covered, either by bedspread or bedskirt. You'd need to play around to see how much bedskirt versus bedspread would look appropriate.

I have the same bed. I bought a tailored bed skirt, placed it atop the box springs, laid the bed atop that and dressed it with a comforter that covered the bed/bedding.

I do have to take it off and wash it about 3-4 times per year but I think it looks very nice. I believe I got the bedskirts for all my beds at Cuddledown. These bedskirts are open at the four corners of the bed to make it easier to use and prevent puckering.

what romy says, if I understand correctly. I'd attach a straight bed skirt/fabric with velcro on the underside or backside of the side rails, so that you can still see the wood. Then cover up the side of the mattress and top side of the box spring like pic. 3. or just with sheets.

I just realized that my solution won't help since the end of your bed is similar to the sides! Sorry about that. Sounds like the other posters have great ideas for you. Good luck!

Wow, lots of great ideas! Thank you so much.

I am going to try the bedskirt approach first with velcro. Hopefully I can get it inside the side rails and footboard; otherwise I will try it under the rails. :)

It's also very tempting for me to cover the entire box spring and the rails with a bedskirt with split corners. However, husband kind of wants to expose the side rails and footboard, so I am going to try the velcro approach first.

This post was edited by ILoveCookie on Thu, Mar 20, 14 at 8:01

I would remove all the rigging and buy a regular bed frame to sit inside the wooden frame. Then you can have any bedding you want!

Very pretty bed!

Nancy

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