Charming destination for bedtime.

Just enough time for a quick look at a beautiful twin bed that recently came in. Scrolled, lathed, mahogany-finish wood. Low 4-poster.

A collection of beds, and sale continues through Saturday, April 2.... UPDATE APRIL 3: THIS SALE IS OVER!

Pre-Script: We're continuing our 10%-off-everything-and-then-some-sale through the end of the week, April 2, not just the end of March. Doesn't make sense not to fill out the week. So, come by and see what's here! I am enjoying giving out cups of Davidson's organic tea to our shoppers, and am eating way too many of the Danish butter cookies myself.

I wish I could show you a flower bed out front, but not yet. Although Pamela is in the middle of doing a folk art painting of flowers and birds on a chunky coffee table out on the sidewalk, I can only show you this "before" photo:

It already looks much better than this, and we're eager to see what Pamela has in her creative mind's eye.

In lieu of flower beds, let me show you the beds on sale at 10%-25% off this week:

First, 2 dark queens...

Vintage Broyhill queen sleigh bed. $425 before 15% sale discount this week.

Thornwood Furniture's Mendocino queen panel bed. Like new. Started at $595 before 25% discount this week. Two matching dressers also available.

Then, two light-hearted twinsize pieces...

Cheerful white wicker headboard, $48 before 10% sale discount.

Elegant hardwood 4-poster canopy bed, here shown set up as day bed. Bed is $225 before 15% discount this week. Includes wooden 4-poster frame, metal canopy, metal rails, box springs and mattress (secondhand in very good condition). This little window retreat is one of my favorite places to sit in the shop these days.UPDATE: SOLD.

Four-poster, canopy, twin bed becomes a retreat (and camera has been found!)

Margo set up the hardwood, 4-poster, canopy twin bed with a delightful, full/queen, "Turkey Red"* duvet as bedcover (which has since sold), and a gorgeous, hand-crochet bedspread as canopy. Add a half-dozen decorator pillows and a strand of Christmas beads, et voila.

We're so thankful that our Canon Powershot has been found (it was at home, where I never am--small business owners understand), so Margo took these photos on her cell, sent them to her son, who emailed them to her so I could download them on my computer, edit them, upload them to my flickr account, and finally copy the link to this blog :^). Not bad for such well-traveled, cell phone photos, eh?

Doesn't this invite you to curl up with a book and a cup of tea?

Here's a better look at the 4-poster and the canopy frame, unadorned:

    

*Friends in the shop hadn't heard of "Turkey Red" before and thought it was in reference to the color of turkey wattles. But, no, the name refers to a beautiful, colorfast hue produced in the 1700's (and perhaps earlier?) by a laborious dying technique originating in the Middle East and later revised (presumably without the sheep dung part of the process) for production in France and Scotland. Yet another interesting historical bit to divert me from my to-do list!