Antique expanding bed at Straumen Farm in Norway

• Main Author: Campbell, Sandy
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown; Norwegian
• Published: 2024
• Subjects: Expanding bed - Northern Norway; Beds - Arctic Regions; Traditional Furniture - Northern Norway; Traditional beds - Northern Norway; Straumen Farm; Norway; Arctic; Tromsø; Trundle; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/aee42780-9ef5-4cbe-a2b6-589b4da88468; https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-bwb3-fh23

Most of the beds at the Straumen Farm in Tromsø Municipality, Norway, were of this design. The headboard and foot board are the size of a single bed, but one of the side-rails pulls out to expand the bed to a double bed. This design expands the sleeping surface at the same level, while most trundle...