What girl doesn’t want to be a princess? At some point in every girl’s life she dreams of being a special princess, beautiful, and loved by all. Your little girl can let her imagination run wild and live her princess fantasies with a princess bed!
A girls princess bed can take many forms. The most popular takes an existing bed frame and incorporates a canopy. The canopy will be in a white, pink, or purple sheer material. Usually this means securing mosquito netting and adding Disney or appropriately bejeweled adornments. Common canopy elements are tassels, sequins, satin valences, and velvet tiebacks. Canopies can be located or made easily, and prices are low, starting at $20.
Another option is transforming bunk beds or loft beds into a personal castle! Specialty bed makers, such as at sweetdreambed.com will custom build a castle around the bed. This usually entails attaching a slide to the top bunk, turrets at the head and foot of the bed, and a grand staircase on one or both sides. Some specialty options for the bed include transforming the stairs into storage components by placing lids and openings in each stair, and doors or windows at the bottom. High end beds will be hand painted, usually in a floral scheme, and have the child’s name in a prominent location. As with any custom furniture item, prices are higher than mass produced options, and start around $2,000. Before deciding to go with this choice, check the height of the bed versus the clearance of your room. The turret and flag are visually striking, but add a good deal of height to the bed.
To find a girls princess bed that is ready to be assembled and used with greater ease in most homes, other merchants offer bed frames with princess style elements incorporated into the structure of the piece. For example, the Princess Rose Daybed offered at ababy.com is available in six colors and is covered in garlands of roses and tulle tiebacks. At the center of the backboard, a beautiful crown is placed to reinforce the princess theme. Other makers also utilize the crown design in the headboard to transform a simple metal headboard and footboard into a princess design. At justkidsbed.com specialty beds can be found that use a round mattress to turn the entire bed into your little girl’s crown! Instead of using a crown, other traditional beds focus on making the headboard and footboard into a carriage from the Cinderella tradition. Although more common in cribs and toddler beds, plastic or metal carriages can encompass the girls bed with dramatic steps leading to the top. Prices for these specialty bed frames will vary, and depend greatly on the manufacturing needs. Metal or plastic bed frames can be found starting around $150, whereas hand painted wooden frames may be upwards of $10,000.
No girls princess bed would be complete without princess accessories though! Pink, purple, or light green bedding is most common, and can usually be found with crowns, roses, vines, or glass slippers as part of the design. Matching furniture can be purchased at the same time as the bed to ensure the chair, dresser, desk, or vanity all have the same look as the bed. Many rugs, wastebaskets, curtains, art pieces, and toys can also reflect the princess theme. By fully committing to a princess theme, your little girl will look back upon her childhood as “once upon a time.”