Luxury Bespoke Beds

One of our offerings is to build beds that are metal free. The metal less feature is for some people interesting and for some customers not. I have experience that to some customers it's a priority and it's very important that the bed has no metal. Out of several reasons one of them is not to attract any electromagnetic fields which science has proved doesn't allow you to get into a deep sleep in our body. I'm not a scientist so I don't want to go too far into it but the body absorbs all these electromagnetic fields and you can't really relax, you can't really have a really good night's sleep, suddenly your bed becomes like an aerial like an antenna which is absorbing all the stuff that is going through the air and you know, wireless information, everything the electricity everything that is in the air and goes into the bed.

To some clients this is very very important that the bed is made just out of natural materials. It can be only wood or it can be a combination of marble, stone, glass you know, different materials that suddenly don't have any attributes into the direction of attracting electromagnetic fields. For other clients this is not so important and there we give for so the other option you know, we will use a screw, we will use a nut or depending what has to be used for the design to make this bed but whatever we use with or without it is absolutely important that the bed is a high quality product that is very easy to take apart for the client himself if they're moving house or if they're moving room whatever the situation is. Those aspects are always very important in the design. The design is not compromised but also not the possibility to take it apart, to disassemble the bed is not compromised so both things which are often quite a challenge for us.

One of the huge benefits of buying a Custom Made Bed from us has to do with the way we look into the situation of the customer. We always ask: What does the bedroom look like? What does the house look like? What kind of furniture do they like? It's important that it harmonizes with everything together. For us, it’s absolutely important that everything fits in relation to each other. Every house, every flat, every bedroom looks different and we try to give you a custom made bed that’s going to matches with your existing furniture and your tastes.

If a bedroom is new or in need of revamping we also produce other bedroom furniture like wardrobes and bedside tables so we are often asked to in a way, like an interior designer to redecorate the whole room. We sit down together with the client and we look into it. What kind of wardrobe or walk-in wardrobe or cloakroom would our clients like and how many clothes they have, shoes and so on? Also the size of the person makes a difference and we have to measure, how big the bed should be, what size and depth of mattress we need. There are many factors and we put everything together, we design, we draw different drawings, different options until we get to the exact final drawing that the client is asking for, that the client feels, "Yes this is exactly how I wish my room to look like," then we do that and we begin to manufacture this custom made bed. All our beds are handmade in East Sussex, England. I really want to say that it's very very important. There might be some materials that are coming from other countries like the woods and so on but it's all custom made here in the UK by our really skilled people that we have here in our workshop.

Buying a handmade bed allows the design to be refined

I wanted to talk today about the difference between Mass Produced and Handmade beds. Without running on my ego and saying, "Oh we make everything much much better," it's not about that, it's just the bed is made for the customer so the personal contact to go to a designer, to a craftsman, to a person who knows how to make furniture and beds and to talk with him/her about the design, about the requests and ideas that the customer has. The designer and the bed maker sit there and take on all this information, put it together, make the drawings, show the customer the materials and possibly make some prototype models. I mean, these are all huge benefits for the customer to know. Each handmade bed is a unique piece of furniture and this is a very big benefit for the client. You don't have to compromise on anything, you don't have to compromise on the color, you don't have to compromise on the wood, on the materials, on the comfort and it's just perfectly made for this one person or for these people.

Quality of mass produced versus handmade beds

Another very big benefit of handmade beds made for our customers is in the long-term quality. We are often in a state of mind where we have to buy everything here and now. We go to the shop, we see it, we pay for it, we take it home and we sacrifice through that a lot of things like quality. Yes you have a quick buy and your bed is immediately in the next maybe 5 days, 7 days depending how quickly it is delivered in... Whatever has to be done quickly and cheaply and just to be delivered to Europe and if you mention their beds you can buy beds now for £200, £300, £400 under £1,000 that is incredible! Just the materials and how much work that's going into it so yeah really there is a big gap when you consider they people paid 20p per hour or sometimes even per day. It's really really sad that we have this society of cheap and impulse buying. We're supporting this abuse of people in other countries. Children who are working very cheaply and whole families who are in a factory from the morning until the night just to survive in that country. It's a very sad, very sad subject and every time that we buy something quickly, mass-produced from those countries we should really think what we're doing there.

Handmade in the UK

There was a time that this was really important to some people but by and by this seems to have be forgotten. There are some fantastic furniture makers in the UK. If you look around these people are so talented and skillful. They can make such beautiful piece of handmade bespoke furniture like in our workshops at Robinson House Studio. For us the most important part is to enjoy the design and to enjoy the satisfaction of the client. Yes it costs more but you get an absolute premium product only made for you and absolutely made for you the customer. I find it quite sad that there is a time in this country where craftsmen rarely take pride in what they've build. It's so much as if that tradition is being lost somewhere. I think people actually don't realize that they can actually go out and have a bespoke bed commissioned for them. I think we're missing a little bit of education, education in the sense that products like furniture like beds and also like clothes and other products and we could have really beautiful things just made for ourselves often without investing so much more than we're paying anyway for a mass-produced product. There are places that unfortunately we're often not giving ourselves time to research and that has many different reasons so everybody is busy with his life and if it is a bed or a chair or a table, everything has to be quickly quickly, I see it I want it now. The process which before the industrial revolution began that you go to a carpenter and you tell him what you want and he begins to find the wood and make the design and build the piece of furniture. The time that goes into handcrafting the furniture is less and less acceptable for many people. I have experienced very often that clients comes with requests for a beautiful bed and design and would like to have it yesterday. That is impossible, that is just impossible. Everything needs time if you want to make something well with a very good quality.

We have been recently been asked if we sell mattresses as well as bed frames. At present we prefer to specialize in doing what we are good at which is building handmade bespoke bed frames and headboards. We can make specific recommendations for mattresses but we believe the choice of mattress is a very personal thing. Each person likes a different style of mattress, some like it firm, some soft and the choice of mattress can be as unique as the choice of bedroom furniture.For some people the mattress is more important than the bed itself. We prefer to let each person make their own decision regarding the choice of mattress, allowing them to try out different styles, textures and heights.

Sometimes the decision about mattresses can come after the bed has been customized. There are suppliers who can build the mattresses made to measure after the bed is complete so size isn't an issue, however there are some vendors that only make the mattress in specific sizes. This doesn't have to be a problem for us because all of our Luxury Bespoke Bed Frames are made to measure. So if you see a mattress that you really feel comfortable with but are struggling to find a bed that will fit, why not give us a call and arrange for us to build you a Bespoke Bed Frame.

We are placed to announce another addition to our range of Handmade Designer Beds. This new model is made from the stunning American Walnut wood. This beautiful design comes with a headboard that is tilted to give the optimal comfort when reading in Bed.

It also contains under bed storage and drawers with leather handles for that extra Luxury feel. More information can be found in our bed design gallery.