User:Themustafa25/History of the Bedroom sandbox

Every person with a house has a bedroom.

List each heading, and list of facts under each heading

History
furnishings

Beds
water beds(1873) murphy bed(1900) canopy bed Bunk Beds 4 post beds metal spring sleep number tempur pedic

modern bedrooms
bathrooms attached furnishings

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Riccardi, Lee Ann. “The Bedroom.” The Ancient House. The College of New Jersey. 2002. Web. 2 Oct. 2011. http://www.tcnj.edu/~anchouse/bedroom.html

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Intro
A bedroom is a private room where people usually sleep or relax during the day. About one third of our lives are spent sleeping and most of the time we are asleep, we are sleeping in a bedroom. (virgil d. Wooten). To be considered a bedroom the room needs to have bed. Bedrooms can range from really simple to fairly complex. Other standard furnishings a typical bedroom usually has are, a closet, nightstand, desk, and dresser. Today in richer countries that have houses with multiple bedrooms, a bathroom may be connected to the bedroom. This did not start happening until the mid to late twentieth century. (Tim Lambert)

Modern Furnishings
An individual’s bedroom is a reflection of one’s personality and is unique to each person, but there are certain items that are common in most bedrooms. Mattresses and closets are the necessities in a bedroom. Mattresses usually have a bed set to raise the mattress off the ground and it provides some decoration. There are many different types of mattresses, in the 14th century the lower class slept on mattresses that were stuffed with straw. (beds). During the 16th century mattresses stuffed with feathers started to gain popularity and in the 18th century cotton and wool started to become more common. The first coil spring mattress wasn’t invented until 1871. (beds). Today more expensive mattresses, such as the sleep number bed and the tempur pedic, are becoming increasingly popular and they are made of memory foam. A bedroom may have bunk beds if more than one person share a room. Closets are a necessity in a bedroom. A closet by definition is a small space used to store things. In a bedroom, a closet is most commonly used for clothes and other small personal items that one may have. Walk in closets are more popular today and vary in size. However, in the past wardrobes have been the most prominent. A wardrobe is a tall rectangular shaped cabinet that clothes can be stored or hung in. Clothes are also kept in a dresser. Typically nicer clothes are kept in the closet because they can be hung up while leisure clothing and undergarments are stored in the dresser. Night stands are also rather popular. They are used to put various items on, such as an alarm clock. Having a television in a bedroom is fairly common as well. 43% of children from ages 3 to 4 have a television in their bedrooms. (Jeremy Mainer). Along with televisions many bedrooms also have computers, video game consoles, which are more popular among teenagers, and a desk to do work. In the late 20th century and early 21st century the bedroom became a more social environment and people started to spend a lot more time in their bedroom than in the past.