Did you know that when a couple got married in the early twentieth century, they bought furniture, even down to the enamel bread bin and stove that would last them for life. Getting fed of your decor was not an option. What you had at the start was likely still there when you were old and grey.
At the centre of every marriage was a double bed. Though sometimes it was only a three quarter – that’s four feet across rather than a double which was four feet four inches. It might have a wooden headboard and footboard, or it might have been metal – cast iron – even brass though between the wars, wood was the favoured material.
Plus the ubiquitous bedroom suite. Wardrobe (perhaps two – one large, one small) a dressing table with triple mirrors and perhaps, an added extra, a chest of drawers.
Blankets, sheets, pillowcases and the almighty eiderdown were also expected to last for years. Hot water bottle in the bed, chamber pot beneath it. En suite? Should you be so lucky! Luck meant having a w.c. indoors not at the end of the garden.
No central heating. Cuddle up folks. No wonder they had such big families.