what did an elizabethan bedroom look like?

Answer 1

Rooms were much more sparsely furnished than we are used to today. A middle-class bedchamber in Elizabethan times would have had, first, a four-poster bed with curtains. These would be drawn to keep out the draughts, and for privacy if the room was walked through in order to reach another. There would be a fireplace to keep it warm. On the floor there would be either rushes or rush matting: carpets were too expensive to be placed anywhere but on the walls, unless you were rich. There may also be wooden panelling on the walls, or tapestries. You would have a chamberpot under the bed, or a commode - a close-stool with a lid. (Henry VIII had a very nice one padded with velvet.) There were no cupboards as such; clothes were stored in a chest or linen-press, folded. There may also have been a bedside table on which you could put your candle, and perhaps a window-seat or a stool or two. Obviously, there would be variations if you were very rich or poor!

A pallet, or very simple moveable bed, might be stored under the fou-poster for your servant to sleep on, and a warming-pan (like a long-handled, lidded frying-pan in which you would put hot coals) would be used to warm the bed in winter. You might also have a bowl with a ewer in it full of water, to wash your face and hands or to shave.

Answer 2

Elizabethan Bedroom

Answer 3

thick carpets/rugs, embelished curtains, big bedroom (if its an Elizabethan rich household), fireplace, big bed with canopy, lots of rich texture and design all around the materials used for decorating, walls too. No bathrooms, they used to have a portable sink like a wash bowl and no toilets, they had bedpans per say under the beds or in a tiny closet space.

Think Laura Ashley designed bed linens and decorating. Something to that effect .

Answer 4

Ask Elizibeth.She was there.

Answer 5

a discotech

Answer 6

these pics might help a bit..