The wooden bed originated as a bedroom furniture that was part of a set or combination pieces for the bedroom. The wooden bed was originally a knotty pine material with the wood shaped or turned with shafts for the headboard and footboard.

Over the years, the demand for mass-produced beds changed the manufacture of the wooden bed, once created individually, to include veneer finishes for the beds, leaving the adored pine and wood beds as part of the history. Newer styles of beds resulted in lighter and less bulky bedroom furniture.

Over the years, the desire for wooden beds reopened the bedroom furniture market to beloved sturdy and strong wooden beds. Tree-lined beds with matching nightstands replaced lighter, cheaper bedroom furniture and once again embraced the tree-lined bedroom furniture of the past.

The development of stained antique looking pine furniture became a consumer demand. The wooden beds with the shafts and the old stain of warm colors were seen in the bedrooms of all the homes. Manufacturers saw the demand for wood beds and added solid panel wood beds to their inventory and designs to expand consumer options. This created a whole new generation of wooden beds.

Even with the new designs and developments of wooden beds, traditional materials were still available and used to make the wooden beds. Rising material costs created prices for wooden beds that only the wealthy could afford, creating a new dilemma for beloved wooden beds and bedroom furniture.

The rising cost of wood prompted the UK manufacturer to seek supplies from different countries, including Brazil and South Africa. The search predated the metal and leather bedding materials of the Far East.

The cracking problems of imported raw wood located in centrally heated homes meant that UK pine bed manufacturers were unable to compete with manufacturers using other reliable materials. Out of this problem arose the limited number of UK manufacturers that specialized in wooden beds.

The Far East became the source of the different types of wood for beds. Due to slow New Zealand import problems, wooden bed manufacturers began to rely on the Far East for the import of wooden bed materials. Today, the wood import solution has been solved thanks to faster shipping from New Zealand and the import of American oak wood beds and other bedroom furniture.

BedSupermarket has the highest quality American White Oak furniture with fewer knots and made from natural grain wood that has a highest quality waxed polished finish that provides the look and durability of the past but at reasonable prices.