page_title: Bed frame
section_title: Brass beds
hierarchical_section_title: Bed frame / Brass beds
caption_attribution_description: English: Navy Lt. Ryan Bareng and others assemble a newly painted bed frame while volunteering at Sarakul Stadium March 6. Service members aboard USS Rushmore cleaned and painted for the Phuket Athletic Club, a nationally competing track-and-field team. The volunteers – service members with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit and Bonhomme Richard Amphibious Ready Group – spent the day fixing bent bed frames, cleaning rooms and painting beds and lockers. The stadium offers boys an alternative to growing up in Phuket neighborhoods where drugs and crime affect many young people. Bareng is the chaplain for Battalion Landing Team 2/4, the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s ground combat element.
context_page_description: A bed frame or bedstead is the part of a bed used to position the mattress and base, and may include means of supporting a canopy above. Bed frames are typically made of wood or metal. A bed frame includes head, foot, and side rails. It may also include slats to support the mattress, in which case a separate base is not necessary, as in a platform bed. Most double sized beds, along with all queen and king size beds, require some type of center support rail, typically also with extra feet extending down to the floor. The term "bed frame" was first used in 1805-1815.
context_section_description: Brass beds are beds in which the headboard and footboard are made of brass; the frame rails are usually made of steel. Brass beds can be made of 100 per cent brass or of metals that have been brass-plated. The brass used in making brass beds is usually 70 per cent copper and 30 per cent zinc. The ratio of metals may vary between manufacturers. 
  Brass beds were originally simple and plain. Throughout the centuries, designs have become increasingly elaborate and can contain extensive ornamentation such as porcelain finials. Some brass bed styles include traditional, Art Deco, Victorian, transitional, Edwardian and contemporary.
caption: Assembling a bed
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