If I wanted this headboard to be more permanent, I would have glued the fabric, but I’ll want to use this fabric again someday in another project when I have an actual headboard from a furniture store. When you start taping around the curved parts of the headboard, you can make little snips into the fabric to get it to curve around the headboard. 🙂Īfter you’ve cut out your headboard, take your tape and start taping down the fabric onto the cardboard. This part of the process takes a while, but when you don’t have wood or a saw, you gotta do what you gotta do. Once you’ve drawn a shape you like, just take the box cutters and go at the cardboard. One thing that I found really helpful when I was drawing out the pattern for the headboard was to make a pattern from one side of the headboard and then flipping it to the other side of the cardboard so that everything is even. I modeled my headboard off of this headboard shape. This was a lot of guessing and checking for me. Once you have a big piece of cardboard, you can start drawing out the shape of headboard you want. Then tape it all off so that it is a big chunk. I actually doubled up the cardboard just so it would be more sturdy. When you have a big piece of cardboard, the first thing you need to do is cut it to the width of your bed. 😉 Then, when you need a really sturdy piece of cardboard, they’re the fellas to help you. The whole making-friends-and-being-remembered thing is also a lot easier if your roommate trips on the sidewalk and falls in front of said construction workers. It is easy to make friends with said construction workers if you wave at them each morning when you run. Go make friends with construction workers on 5th Avenue. So if you don’t have a saw or anything to cut a nice headboard out of wood, here’s what you can do. And all done without any power tools or legit workshop items. 🙂 Before I added the headboard, it kind of felt like the bed was just floating in the room. So because we don’t really want to paint the walls due to the fact that we’ll just have to paint them again, we’ve been trying to do alternative things to make our rooms feel less sterile and all white-like. This headboard for my bedroom was definitely at the top of my list of things that make a place feel like a home. 🙂 So I’ve been brainstorming little things to make our little home feel as cozy and warm as we possibly can make it. Now in my home in Indiana, I probably have enough decor and furniture to furnish a small house, but there’s only so many things that can fit in a cargo van with a mattress to drive across the country. (Or lack of furniture.) Sometimes it feels like we are just a bunch of college kids hanging stuff on the wall. This college-for-adults feeling is further accentuated by the fact that we have the most hodge-podge assortment of decor and furniture in our apartment.

To me, New York totally has this college-esque feel because everyone is always up late working, running around, and just doing stuff. They provide a focal point, can introduce color, pattern and texture, and can help to correct and improve a room's proportions and visual impact.So I’ve been in New York for about three weeks now and I am slowly working on project after project to make the apartment feel decorated and appear furnished by an adult. Headboards are vital for aesthetic reasons, too. A headboard will also stop your pillows from slipping down behind the bed frame. What is the reason for a headboard?Ī headboard is an important element of a bedroom for numerous reasons.įrom a functional point of view, you need a headboard to cushion your head and back when you are sitting up in bed, and to protect your head from the wall.

Although traditionally it is easier to attach a headboard to a bed frame of a similar size, it is also possible to fit an oversized headboard to the wall behind the bed. Yes, you can put a headboard on an existing bed frame. If you use a patterned wallpaper you can pick an accent color from it and use in a plainer form for the fabric on the headboard to marry the two together.' Can you put a headboard on a bed frame? 'If you’d prefer to let the wall treatment be the focal point, then it’s better to choose a bed frame and headboard that is low and discreet, so the attention is on the wider wall. 'Four poster beds are making a contemporary comeback – the way we’ve been incorporating these grand frames into bedrooms is often with drapes or canopies, which adds a softness to the space,' says Cecilia Halling. (Image credit: Future / Jon Day / Katrin Cargill)įour poster beds also have headboards – and these can range from grand to subtle.

Wraparound headboard