Sentence examples for tester bed from inspiring English sources

Then Betsy helped Mitch find a house on Palmer Avenue and made love to him right on the client's tester bed, and everything got wrong.

Popular in 19th-century England, the characteristic full tester bed featured detailed front posts on a vase-turned section resting on block supports.

Our favorite is this Queen Charlotte domed tester bed, an opulent design with gilded finials and layers of hand-embroidered fabric and harrumph!–fluffier pillows than we've ever slept on.

There are a suite and two doubles furnished with tester beds and antiques.

It is in the heart of the fancier-by-the-minute Born district, and the rooms are modern and casual with dark-wood tester beds, chunky Parsons tables, and lots of white paint and crisp linens.

One of her quilts adorns a full-tester bed in a room just paces from the garçonnière.

Further on is the 288-square-foot master bedroom, which, like much of the rest of the house has been furnished with Victorian antiques, including a half-tester bed, which has a small canopy.

The second-oldest continuously occupied gubernatorial residence in the country (after Virginia's), it's filled with mahogany tables, Grecian-form sofas, Renaissance Revival half-tester beds, and walls painted in dusty rose, cream, deep gold and pumpkin-orange.

Furnishings include a full-tester (canopied) bed from the 1720's and a 1685 English long case eight-day clock, on loan from the Victoria and Albert Museum.

In the 18th century, testers over beds became lighter and more purely decorative, in part because of the development of smaller, more intimate rooms in northern European residences.

An elaborate combination of designer duvets and pillow settings ending up being less popular with testers than bedding with a "simpler, clean and neat style", Khalifa said.