Thread: Antique Cast Iron/Steel Bed for my Daughter

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Thanks guys! Yeah. It has a lot of pink for sure. I should take a pic of the wall that has pink and yellow on it for you all.

Nice work. Don't ya' love those rails? We have what was my moms bed when she was a girl, it has tubular iron posts and tube head and foot with big spun brass cap finials on the end posts; and those angle iron rails with the cast iron wedge key fittings on the ends. They are worn enough that if one isn't careful, they will slip almost half way through to the other side, so I installed some eye bolts into the corner tubes and made a wire rope bridle that crosses corner to corner, and tightening the turn buckles pulls the whole thing together tight, and I can also square it up with them. I had it powder coated white, polished the brass up, and with one of our hand made quilts for a bed spread, it looks great. It will be passed on to one of our grand daughters.

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Awesome!!!

Saturday night I got her bed all wrapped up. We got her rug put down, and picture and chalk board hung up. She spent her first night in there Saturday night, even took a nap in there Sunday before her first soccer game and is loving it.