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1600 BCE
Prehistory (2-3 millions of years b.C)
2.500.000 years before Christ, houses or bedrooms didn’t exist, and man, woman and child lived in caves. They stayed in the same place for a lot of time, or sometimes, as nomads, they changed of cave when the winter approached. Lots of families shared a small space, and because the coldness and the rain, a fire was set in the middle of the cave during all the night, to ensure the heat of the people. They usually slept on the floor, or sometimes in a kind of grass softer than the floor. -
1500 BCE
EGYPTIAN AGE (3200 B.C- 332B.C)
3200 B.C- 332B.C
In the Egyptian period, people lived in big houses with many rooms. Walls where painted as a kind of artwork, and furniture was made by Wood, such as beds or boxes. Instead of pillows, pieces of wood where used. Poor people lived in a kind of mud houses, and slept on the top of the roof. During the light period of the day they worked outside the house, because of the heat. -
1200 BCE
IRON AGE
The iron Age was an important and gradual transition from the Bronze Age for many cultures that began to figure out how to make furniture and tools. People could now build a better bed. Beds from this era consisted of several supports beneath a platform consisting of an outer metal frame and metal weaved in a cross pattern across the platform to provide support for the mattress. Wool blankets would have been used with these beds. -
700 BCE
ANCIENT GREEK PERIOD 150 B.C
In the Greek age, the rooms were made of mud bricks instead of stone bricks as we do nowadays. These rooms had roofs made of pottery tiles and they didn’t have glass to put on the windows, they were just holes in the wall.
Poor people lived in one, two or three rooms and sometimes the house had only one room that they used for everything. At the same time, rich Greeks lived in large and big houses with lots of rooms. Rich Greeks had different rooms, each one for a different use. Downstairs they -
500 BCE
ANCIENT ROME (753 BC–476 AD)
Atrium:
Originally the Atrium was the bedroom of the mother of the family. As the atrium was the centerpiece of the house, was the room that had more furniture. Also it contained a little chapel to the ancestral spirits.
The romans kept the bed standing as a symbol of sanctity of marriage.
Alae:
The Alaes were the open rooms situated on each side of the Atrium. The Alaes were big rooms but not as big as the Atrium. The Alae had open windows to allow light to enter into the house. -
Apr 30, 1000
Medieval beds and bedrooms (5th – 15th centuries)
During the 5th and 15th centuries, privacy was not even considered when constructing a house, or a bedroom. People focused on the society and lived, cocked and slept in a hall. When the sun went down was time to sleep. A fire placed in the centre of the hall would provide heating to everyone. -
Apr 30, 1550
Tudor beds and bedrooms of 16th Century (1485-1603)
Time was changing and so, medium class started to appear and to have their own homes. Bedrooms where not furnished, and they only contained a bedroom and a big chest to ensure the safety of the clothes. As the last historical period, the bedroom had lot’s of uses, such as celebrations weeding’s and the death of people. Privacy was not a important thing in this period, except the bed with the bed curtains. Bedrooms where passed from generation to generation -
Stuart beds and bedrooms of the 17th century (1603-1688)
Bedrooms kept being power places who only important people could own. Lots of bedrooms where putted in a row in the same house, and large corridors allowed you to walk from one to another. There wasn’t full privacy yet, because servants, business people and familiars kept entering to celebrate events to the bedroom. A closet was added to the houses of the ruler class, a space for the man or the woman of the house with full privacy to pray, a place for solitude and reflection. -
Georgian and Federalists beds and bedrooms of the 18th century
The houses began to be built with internal staircases allowing the servants of the medium class to get to the rooms of the house without having to pass trough the main man or woman of the house bedroom. Not a big change into the furniture of the bedroom was noticed in this century. -
Bedrooms in the 19th century (Victorian Beds)
The Victorian beds where very difficult to craft. Iron platforms supported more than 10 layers which where blankets, sheets, feather mattresses, horsehair mattresses, and straw mattresses and lots of layers more. Victorian houses represented a healthy space cleanliness, and simplicity. Lots of rooms for everyone where constructed, rather for kids, parents or servants. -
Bedrooms and beds of the early 20th century
After the Industrial revolution houses and bedrooms advanced considerably. Electricity became common in houses and furniture was decorated with small details. Bathrooms where moved outside the bedroom making a clean and beautiful space, and a glamorous bedroom. Light allowed people to continue doing things when the darkness invaded the city. -
The Nowadays Bedroom (2016)
Houses and bedrooms constructed nowadays can offer us all the things we may need, from basic things, to the most unusual things we may need. Ultra Complete bedrooms can handle multiple electronic devices, such as a TV, a computer or a gaming console. The bed is 1m x 1,80m, a soft space where a person can sleep comfortable. The walls of the bedroom are often decorated and the roof contains an electric system to light the bedroom. Lots of money is spent to customize a bedroom, which satisfies the
