ye olden farmhouse bed

We were looking for a neat old bedframe with really high clearance underneath for storage and stuff, and we found one! It's actually a rope bed, though we removed the wooden side rails with holes through which you would thread a network of ropes on which you would rest your mattress -- we replaced them with iron side rails. This, apparently, is the origin of the phrase "sleep tight" -- if your ropes are tight, your mattress rests firm & snug.