Castles: Part 2 - Bedrooms

Good Morning Room 3

Welcome to Part 2 of the Castles series in this blog. Part 2 is focussing on bedrooms throughout these famous chateaus.

The bedrooms are huge and when I say huge some of the bedrooms are the size of your whole house! Yep, believe it.

Here are some of the beds in the castles. The beds are all four poster beds which means they have large wooden posts are each of the corners of the bed. They have large thick hand made canopies that hang from the top of the bed. At night they closed the curtains on all sides of the bed and there were 2 main reasons for this.

Reason 1: Warmth. The castles had very large rooms, often with no carpeting or heating so it would get very cold. Closing the curtains maintained warmth in the bed.

Reason 2: Privacy. They also closed the curtains on the beds for privacy. Often rooms were shared and people working in the castles would walk in and out the rooms so those that were asleep did not want to be disturbed. Think of it like closing your door to your bedroom at home.

The details on the canopies and linen were amazing.

These beds were mainly for royalty, royalty means kings, queens, princesses and princes. Nobility may also have slept in beds like these, so lords and ladies. These were not beds for the average commoner like you and me.

True or False question. People slept sitting up?

That is actually true! Many people slept in an upright position with their legs out straight (like some of you do on the mat at school). They did this because they believed laying down was only for people that were no longer living. They thought it would be creepy to lay in a position like you are dead. Weird! I could not imagine having to sleep sitting up. Do not try this at home!

This is the bed that Leonardo Da Vinci slept in while he stayed in France.

The bedrooms were truly fascinating. 

I hope you are all enjoy the cold winter months. maybe you can try and make a canopy for your bed this weekend!

Au revoir

Miss Stinson