If there's one design element that makes a little girl feel most like a princess, it's a canopy over her bed. Kids canopy beds evoke romantic storybook images of a life lived happily ever after.
Canopy Beds Have a Royal Heritage
Canopy beds are rightly associated with princesses and other royalty, as canopy beds have their origins in ancient castles as a means of dealing with the unwieldy drafts these palaces produced. In the wintertime beds in the castle were draped with heavy curtains in order to help contain warmth. During the summer months, the thick fabric material was replaced by thin netting used to keep mosquitoes and other insects and pests out.
Both protective, comfort-generating uses for canopies in those medieval times were luxuries that only the elite could afford. That tradition of draping canopies over beds was then carried on from there into modern mansions and estates where people sought to live in perceived luxury, whether they required the extra draft protection, warmth, or pest prevention, or not.
Kids Canopy Beds Give Little Girls Good Feelings
Girls canopy beds are not only a symbol of luxury and wealth but, to the little girls that sleep in them, they're also a symbol of beauty, elegance, and grace. When a little girl wakes up beneath a canopy she may imagine herself a princess in her palace, or an angel in her own private heaven, or a fairy or sprite in an enchanted forest. Whatever she imagines, one thing is for sure - she feels as beautiful inside as her surroundings are outside.
More than that, even, girls canopy beds provide a subtle sense of protection, of safety and security in her bedroom. The simple veil a canopy provides gives little girls enough of a feeling of privacy that they can comfortable allow themselves to relax enough to fall asleep.
Kinds of Girls Canopy Beds
Most custom theme beds can be designed with a canopy included. Princess castle beds certainly can, but so can Tudor cottage theme beds, Victorian theme beds, horse and carriage or horse and buggy theme beds, and more. What's more, canopies can be built into kids bunk beds, kids loft beds, and kids Murphy beds alike.
Girls canopy beds can be built in a four-poster style or with an open-toed half-canopy. You can have them built made of fabric or wood or wrought iron. And you can have them made or painted in any color or design that you and your little girl like.
