Good bedroom furniture does more than give us a place to sleep or to provide storage. The best of it has grace and presence, qualities that seem in harmony with its setting. In these 23 articles from the pages of Fine Woodworking magazine, you'll see bedroom furniture in a variety of styles. Pieces range from a graceful Queen Anne lowboy that serves as a dressing table to a spectacular sleigh bed. In between there are bureaus, tables, and a crib. In all, you'll find something here to grace just about any bedroom, whatever style it might be.

Few pieces of furniture we own are as personal as those in our bedrooms. Bureaus, beds, and small bedside tables -- no matter what their style or shape -- all are personal in a way that even the most beautiful set of kitchen cabinets will never be. Good bedroom furniture does more than give us a place to sleep or provide storage for socks. The best of it has grace and presence, qualities that seem in harmony with its setting.

The authors represented in this collection of Fine Woodworking articles build furniture in a variety of styles. Pieces range from Norm Vandal's graceful Queen Anne lowboy that serves as a dressing table to William Turner's spectacular sleigh bed, a challenging bit of woodworking that took 1,200 hours to design and build. In between there are bureaus, cribs, and tables.

In addition to discussions of individual pieces of furniture, these articles also cover techniques that make building them possible. Mac Campbell, for instance, can show you how to make quarter columns to embellish a chest of drawers. John Byers explains how to coax a curved chest out of flat stock. Christian Becksvoort's method for installing drawer stops in a bureau or chest helps guarantee that drawers will sit flush to the case -- permanently.

You'll find something here to grace just about any bedroom, whatever style it might be.

-- Scott Gibson, editor