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Recent Examples of bedsteadCalling it the Fair View, Mulrooney was meticulous in choosing the lace curtains, plush carpets, brass bedsteads and other finery that would make her new hotel the envy of the region’s other hoteliers, who housed most guests in rough dormitories.—Melanie Haiken, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024 The Emerald Ridge room, for example, has original redwood-slat walls, an antique bedstead and river views, while the sunny Rhododendron boasts period wallpaper and a claw-foot tub.—Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2024 Orwell typed for hours upstairs, sitting on his iron bedstead in a tatty dressing gown, chain-smoking shag tobacco.—Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024 The only possible exit is a skylight, and the only means of reaching it is to build a tower from a bedstead and other bits of furniture.—Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2023 My dad had rigged a ramp up to a derelict bedstead and boarded over the springs.—Jeanette Winterson, The New Yorker, 4 June 2017 In guest rooms, fires and lamplight illuminate upholstered sleigh beds or traditional turned-wood New England bedsteads.—Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Oct. 2017 Our room’s vintage iron bedstead was set against walls painted a soft, saturated green.—Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2017 One room boasts crimson walls and a large white wooden bedstead, with pretty floral bedding.—Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2017
So when powerful Santa Ana winds battered his house on the night of Monday, January 5, Goldner, a rock climbing coach and video director, dragged his futon into the living room and slept there with his two dogs, just to be safe.
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Gavin Feek,
Outside Online,
13 Jan. 2025
In order to do so, however, the futon has to be moved away from the wall, which could be inconvenient.
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Maria Conti,
Better Homes & Gardens,
3 Jan. 2025
Anthony’s daughter, Hajime White, who lives in Arkansas, told The Washington Post that authorities told her that her father’s body was found by Justin’s bed.
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Esme Mazzeo,
CNN,
18 Jan. 2025
Since the train doesn’t have a second floor, the upper bed has more space and the person sleeping there can sit without hitting their head — something my husband appreciated greatly.
He’s had pepper spray pumped into his cell and lived in solitary confinement for days at a time during an endless shuffle between hospital beds and jail bunks.
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Kallie Cox,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Jan. 2025
Accommodations range from bunks in communal rooms to private yurts overlooking the Pacific.
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