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Marriage Bed

Opening context:
Couple’s Realm

Conflict

The bed is the center of a couple’s life together: the place where they lie together, talk, make love, sleep, sleep late, take care of each other during illness. But beds and bedrooms are not often made in ways which intensify their meaning, and these experiences cannot take hold.

Resolution

At the right moment in a couple’s life, it is important that they make for themselves a special bed — an intimate anchor point for their lives; slightly enclosed, with a low ceiling or canopy, with the room shaped to it; perhaps a tiny room built around the bed with many windows. Give the bed some shape of its own, perhaps as a four-poster with a head board that can be hand carved or painted over the years.

Closing context:
Dressing Room, Bed Alcove, Ceiling Height Variety, Ornament, The Shape of Indoor Space