Laurie, sorry I didn't see your post until today. I've included a better shot of the whole bed, but I'm afraid I can't tell you much about it. I found it at an antique mall in Arkansas. It was quite inexpensive ($125, I think).

It is a full size bed with wooden rails, headboard, and curved foot board. The footboard has four Queen Anne style pad feet, while the headboard only has two straight legs; all have little casters on them, which is handy. The wood is a very hard, dark wood with a close fine grain that runs fairly straight. I know next to nothing when it comes to identifying wood, but if I had to take a stab in the dark, I might say walnut? It might have a manufacturer's mark on the back of the headboard, but I can't move it to see.

I have seen several beds like this on CL, estate auctions, etc, so it must have been a fairly common style and doesn't seem particularly valuable. Justgotabme posted on the same thread you linked about having a bed just like mine, and she later posted a photo of an adaptation using just such a bed to make a bench or toddler bed. It seems there are plenty around, so I hope you find one!

wow! that is one beautiful bed

OMG, I can't believe you got that for $125. I'm on a major budget right now, so I was afraid you were going to tell me you paid big bucks for it. It seems like the new beds I see in the stores are all so big and bulky and yours is very feminine which I love. I guess I'll have to start checking out the antique stores. Thanks for the picture!

Laurie

Definitely look at some antique stores, but you might try calling or visiting some thrift stores, consignment shops, estate sales or auctions, and flea markets, too. If you take a photo of what you're looking for, a lot of smaller places will keep your name and number and contact you if they get something. And of course watch CL, too.

As I mentioned, I've seen similar beds several times in the few years since I've had mine, and they are rarely more than a few hundred dollars (unless it comes as a matching suite). I do love this bed, and if you find a similar antique one without the curved footboard, you can buy rails to adapt it to a queen, if full size is too small.

equest17 - I was looking at antique beds on ebay and noticed that most of them are full size. I've already bought all my new bedding and I bought queen size. I always do things out of order. The footboard is my favorite part of the bed, so I would hate to not have that part. I'm definitely going to check out some local stores. A guy that I work with loves antiques, so I'll ask him about the best places to check.

Laurie

There a similar one in one of our local thrift store right now for fifty or seventy-five dollars. I can't remember just what. I got this one at the other thrift store earlier this year for only $12.99. Would have loved to get the dresser that went with it, but it was $39.99 and I didn't feel I should spend that much since I already had more furniture than I can keep up with. I went back deciding if it was still there I had to have it, but it was gone.
Here's the bed as it looked in the store. Took with my old cell phone. Already stripped and ready to stain. Ofcourse that my devalue it, but I'm making a toddler daybed/bench out of it anyway.
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justgotabeme - Are you staining it a similar color or darker like equest's bed? I can't wait to see how it turns out.

Laurie

Laurie, if it's just the bedding that you bought queen size, you might still be able to get the comforter and bedskirt to work on a full. The set on my bed is actually a queen set, because it was on clearance and they didn't have a full. It works fine as I usually tuck the extra side drop into the wood rails (I think the photo above was just after making the bed and I forgot to tuck the sides down). I don't have the bedskirt on, but I have before by just taking a tuck down the middle of the white lining that lays over the boxspring to take in the width.

In general, every antique bed I've seen is a full (sometimes even smaller, something I think called a 3/4 bed). But the adapter rails might even work with a curved footboard; the mattress just wouldn't fit down all the way into the curve. But once the bedding is layered on at the end, I don't think the gap would be very big or noticeable. You could always wedge some blocks of foam at the end and tuck the comforter or other throws down over it to disguise it.

equest - Where would you get the rails to adapt it to a queen?

Laurie