Gingham Pet Bed With Headboard

A miniature bedstead with a padded headboard, wooden legs and a frilled gingham duvet. This is unashamedly a decorative bed, and there is nothing wrong with wanting the thing that sits in your living room to look like furniture rather than a cushion someone dropped. Underneath the styling it is put together sensibly enough to survive being slept in rather than merely photographed.

The cover is cotton linen over a high-elastic PP cotton filling, so it holds its loft rather than flattening into a mat after a fortnight, and the underside is a drip-plastic Oxford cloth. That dotted rubberised backing is what keeps the bed from wandering across a wooden floor when a dog jumps into it. Covers, pillow and duvet all detach for the machine, which is usually the difference between a bed you keep and one you replace.

• Cotton linen cover over high-elastic PP cotton filling
• Drip-plastic Oxford base cloth for grip on hard floors
• Raised on wooden legs with a padded headboard
• Matching pillow and frilled gingham duvet
• Removable, washable covers
• One size, listed as M at 55 x 48
• Two colours: black plaid and red plaid

On sizing: the single size is given as 55 x 48, which we read as the overall frame in centimetres, and the sleeping area inside will be smaller once the padded sides are accounted for. That makes it a bed for cats and genuinely small dogs. Measure your pet lying stretched out, nose to tail base, because length rather than weight decides whether a dog fits a bed.

Who it's for: Cats and small dogs, and owners who want the bed to read as a piece of furniture.