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Monschau - Red House Bedroom II
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Uploaded: 05/27/10 5:39 PM GMT
Monschau - Red House Bedroom II
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Here is another room I'd love to stay for a night. What about you?
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.YoungATheart
05/27/10 5:44 PM GMT
Hm, is that like a chamber pot I see to the right of the basinette? This must have been a married couples room with two beds pushed together. At least it appears to be two beds. Again, such ornate detailing. Lovely room!
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Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. -Confucius
Wonderful old bed chamber and looks like a babies bath tub on the right. Does look like a very charming place
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Hurray Spring is Finally Here
A Beautiful and Elegant bedroom,Paul..Sure i wish i could stay for a night..or 10 nights.Love all the details.Stunning photo.
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every day is a gift......that's why it's called the present!!
Naah.. It's too old for me :P
Lovely photograph Paul, again you did a splendid work!
Lovely photograph Paul, again you did a splendid work!
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If "Ignorance is bliss", why should we seek knowledge?
Since I’ve fallen behind on my review comments.. AGAIN... I am going to leave you a quick not that I saw your post and have enjoyed it … ☺
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Jellybean
A chamber pot, Janelle? That gold filigreed circular object with the long handle? Not at all. It's a bed-warmer. For cold nights, hot coals from the fireplace would have been placed in the circular container and that part would have been placed at the bottom of bed, near the feet. The long handle made it easy for the sleepers to move it to where it was needed or if it got too hot. These were people of means, indicated by the beauty of a common device that, in a poorer home, would have been a simple cast-iron box or heated bricks.
You'll notice there are what appears to be two beds. There are. In older German hotels there are often beds just like this, the small halves being easier to fit in tiny antique elevators and through single doors. We can assume the reason for this custom is the same in this historic home. Once inside the bedroom, the two halves would have been pinned together and a cross-pattern of ropes under the ticking mattress installed to hold the mattress firmly. As time went by, the ropes would loosen and the sleepers might find themselves in a hammock instead of a bed, sagging slowly to the floor. This is where the old saying, "Good night, sleep tight" comes from. A better night sleep would be guaranteed by tightening the ropes under the mattress.
Lastly, the European method of hanging photos, prints, and paintings, using long exposed wires, from a horizontal "picture rail" near the ceiling of the room, is something that immigrants to America brought with them. Countless historic photos of homes here in America, from luxurious wood-floored and carpeted homes to dirt-floor soddies, show this same method of hanging framed items.
This is a great series, Paul. Thanks for giving it to us.
-Nikoneer
You'll notice there are what appears to be two beds. There are. In older German hotels there are often beds just like this, the small halves being easier to fit in tiny antique elevators and through single doors. We can assume the reason for this custom is the same in this historic home. Once inside the bedroom, the two halves would have been pinned together and a cross-pattern of ropes under the ticking mattress installed to hold the mattress firmly. As time went by, the ropes would loosen and the sleepers might find themselves in a hammock instead of a bed, sagging slowly to the floor. This is where the old saying, "Good night, sleep tight" comes from. A better night sleep would be guaranteed by tightening the ropes under the mattress.
Lastly, the European method of hanging photos, prints, and paintings, using long exposed wires, from a horizontal "picture rail" near the ceiling of the room, is something that immigrants to America brought with them. Countless historic photos of homes here in America, from luxurious wood-floored and carpeted homes to dirt-floor soddies, show this same method of hanging framed items.
This is a great series, Paul. Thanks for giving it to us.
-Nikoneer
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