Bed Chamber Furniture and other Camp Furniture for Elizabethan re-creation and anachronism

This type of furniture is optional as regular camp furniture is available from Canadian Tire or and Walmart

 Furniture specially made for medieval tent pavilions - The bedchamber furniture is designed to be taken down and moved easily to campsites and back to storage. To the far left is the wardrobe storage chest which when stacked create the total cabinet. This unit breaks down into three units, and is easily transported to camp out events. The foot chest in front of the bed holds the items to make the encampment complete with candle holders, and lamps and serves as an extra seating. The bed itself breaks down into easily transported items, that can be quickly assemble once reaching the site. At the time when the bed frame was made it was to hold an air mattress, but since than been replaced with a foam mattress.

Another view of the bedchamber furniture, but this time with the foot chest open to reveal the velvet lining. Originally this foot chest was going to be used for rapier equipment, but the decision was later made to use the chest for storage of small items used in recreating the middle ages - Tudor Elizabethan era.

To keep the weight down on all the furniture, shaker panel construction is used with the panels been of 1/8 inch oak plywood. To reinforce for transportation; the end panels on the wardrobe cabinets are made of 3/4 inch oak panels. All rails were either made of 3/4 inch oak stock lumber, or of 3/4 inch oak plywood. The bed rails made to look like shaker panels is made of 1/4 inch plywood with 3/4 in plywood glue to the 1/4 inch plywood to give strength and keep the weight down. The 5/8 inch plywood slats are supported by 1 inch x 1/8 inch angle iron and screwed into the bed rails. This add extra support for two people, and helps to prevent the long bed rails from warping. The headboard is made of 4 pieces that interlock together to create the total headboard.

The bed rails were bolted to the post, but have been changed to be interlocking, with this design change it  takes roughly five minutes to set up at a campsite. Bed hook hardware and table leg slide hardware is available from Lee Valley.

The cabinets and bed were made from left over materials that were laying around the shop, but if one chooses to use the same materials that I used, the cost for new materials is around five hundred dollars.

To move this type of furniture along with the tent one needs a 1/2 ton to move these items to and from medieval events. If traveling by car, the tent will fit, however this furniture will not, and from what I have seen at a number of medieval events, one could use portable camp furniture. It may not be medieval in appearance but is available and easy to transport.

Bed shown with canopy

Stackable clothing and linen chest

Gustonbury Chairs and reclaimed brassed table - set up in the sitting chamber - one of three chambers in the 12 spoke Medieval pavilion

Shown here is the kitchen setup for food processing and cooking for the household of Phasiani lacus Manerium. Here set up it is tested for size to fit the 12 spoke Medieval pavilion (Kitchen chamber). Tables and cookery equipment are of non Medieval design, but rather made for serviceable setup and take down with min. effort. The tables are cut with rounded corners and is trimed with a rubber trim to prevent injury from bumping into the edge, and to also prevent spintering of the plywood edges. Two keep weight down the tables, chest and chest stands are made of spruce. The two chest hold dry goods for cooking along with pot and pans. The sink was re used from a pervious job salvage. In making these items the cost was less a hundred dollars, excluding cooler (blue) Coleman stove, and the grill (black and white).