King Size Bed with Storage in Carved Teak - Gold and Mahogany

Designing a Carved Bed Around Its Storage

Adding storage to a bed sounds like a small change and is not. A hydraulic base lifts the entire mattress platform on one hinge line, and everything the frame does while that happens, twisting, flexing, settling back, is transmitted straight into the joints of a carved footboard that was never designed to move. Drawers are no easier: a runner needs depth in the side rail, and if you take that depth you either raise the mattress until the headboard proportion looks wrong, or you lose the ground clearance that a carved apron needs to sit above the floor properly. Most carved beds skip the problem entirely and are sold without storage.

This one was drawn the other way round, starting from the base. Making the footboard a solid cabinet form rather than an open carved frame gives the structure a rigid box at the foot end, which is what stops the perimeter racking when a hydraulic platform is lifted. The fluted mahogany drums at the corners are structural as much as decorative; they are the vertical members carrying that rigidity down to the feet. The visual result, a low cabinet at the foot and a lighter buttoned headboard above, came out of the engineering rather than being imposed on it. It is carved, finished and assembled by hand by master Indian artisans, and the photographs show the actual piece.

Specifications: Gold and Mahogany Storage Bed

This is the bed as photographed. Because it is made to order, treat each line as a default that can be changed.

• Frame and carving: solid teak wood, hand-carved and hand-finished by master Indian artisans
• Finish: gold carving with high-gloss mahogany and ivory panels
• Storage: hydraulic lift, drawer or box storage engineered into the base, specified by you before production
• Headboard: two shaped ivory buttoned lobes either side of a carved gold fan rising to a scrolled crest
• Footboard: cabinet form with fluted mahogany drum ends and a gold-framed ivory centre panel with a carved fan
• Apron: deep carved gold band beneath the footboard, over scrolled feet
• Supplied with: two matching bedside cabinets with panelled doors in the same mahogany and gold
• Upholstery options: ivory as shown, or leather, velvet, silk, linen or a fabric you supply
• Finish options: gold and mahogany as shown, or walnut, dark oak, antique gold, champagne or silver
• Size: custom sizes made to order; final measurements confirmed in writing before production
• Warranty: 20 years on solid teak frame and joinery; lifetime cover against termite damage
• Delivery: free across India with guaranteed dent-free arrival

Packing a Bed With Moving Parts

A storage bed has components that are designed to move, and the priority in transit is that they arrive still aligned. The base perimeter is crated as a rigid unit with the platform secured so it cannot lift or shift on the road, and any hydraulic mechanism is immobilised in the closed position and packed with its gas struts unloaded, because a strut left under tension for a long journey is a strut that arrives weaker than it left. Drawer units, if specified, travel with runners disengaged and drawers braced.

The finished surfaces are handled to their own requirements. High-gloss mahogany shows every scratch, so those panels are face-protected across their whole area against a soft non-abrasive layer rather than only edge-guarded. Gold carving is wrapped in non-abrasive facing and the projecting apron is contour-padded so nothing rests on it. The ivory buttoned lobes travel with no strapping across the tufting. All of it is rigid-crated and strapped, with the two cabinets boxed separately and their doors secured. The commitment is the same as on every Brown Rabbit piece: it arrives dent-free, unscratched and working, or we put it right.

Free Delivery and On-Site Setup Across India

Delivery is free anywhere in India with no distance surcharge and nothing added to your invoice for freight. Production time is shaped by the storage choice as much as by the carving, since a hydraulic base and a drawer base are built differently from the ground up and neither is a quick assembly. We give you a realistic completion window once your specification is confirmed, and if you are working to a fixed date we will tell you at enquiry whether it can be met rather than accepting the order and missing it.

On arrival our team assembles the bed, fits and tests the storage mechanism, and shows you how it operates. Ask them to lift and lower the platform in front of you with the mattress in place, since that is the only meaningful test, and raise anything you are not satisfied with while they are still there. Because the base of a storage bed is a solid unit rather than a set of rails, it is bulkier to carry than a conventional frame; tell us at enquiry about narrow staircases, small lifts or tight doorways so it can be engineered to break down into sections that will actually get into the room.

Warranty on a Storage Bed Frame

The solid teak frame and joinery are warranted for 20 years from delivery, and termite damage is covered for the life of the bed with no expiry. On a storage bed the structural warranty is doing more work than usual, because a frame that lifts or carries drawers is loaded in ways a static frame is not. Every joint in the perimeter, and the connections between the fluted corner drums and the base, are cut and pinned to take that repeated movement and are covered for the full term. If you specify hydraulic storage, the lift mechanism itself is covered by its own manufacturer warranty, which is shorter than twenty years; we will tell you the exact term at the point of order rather than let you assume it matches the frame.

The gold finish, the mahogany gloss, the upholstery and the foam sit outside the structural cover, as they wear with use rather than fail through construction. We state that here rather than in fine print. We refinish and reupholster our own beds at any point in their life at an honest price, and we service or replace hydraulic mechanisms on beds we have built. Keep the bed indoors, out of prolonged direct sun, do not exceed sensible loading in the storage compartment, and do not modify the frame yourself.