We've taken a look at many a tufted upholstery project in the past, but not many take the time to document every single step along the way. This transformation is fit for a king with its new purple hue. Want to see what it looks like now?
Over at Little Green Notebook Jenny Komenda always has a great project happening. Back in November she took on this amazing headboard project and shared all sorts of tips and tricks along the way. She literally photographed every single step and she shares with you one of the best tutorials for this sort of project I've personally ever seen.
We love something salvaged turned new again and this headboard is now fit for any palace and will have great life and love for years to come. Even if you and fabric don't get along and the idea of sewing anything makes you nervous, I promise your fears will be calmed after checking out each piece step by step.
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Where can I find these new "thirft" stores? =) in other news, what a fun bedroom.
omg, thank you for posting this! I just found a couch similar to this style of headboard and have been searching for a good tutorial on how to re-upholster it! This is excellent and very informative!
Stunning. Absolutely love the fabric color choice.
Wow! That is gorgeous!
I think it's a record! Only two posts before a "I like the before better wah wah wah" Really?
Oh, this literally made me gasp. It's gorgeous. Very well done. You must sleep with your fingers caressing the tufts.
I've been looking for exactly this sort of headboard, hunting the thrift stores, hoping I'll find one.
You know I thought I wasn't hunting the 'right' thrift stores until I didn't buy a painting that caught my eye. The background was too dark for my home, but I loved it anyway, it was only $17 so why the big indecision I asked myself. Well, two weeks later I spied the same painting on a local 'treasure' hunters expensive website and she was selling it for $425. It sold within two days. Wow.
Fabulous! It is fun and bold. What a great transformation. I would totally pass over a drab, dated headboard when thrifting - kudos on seeing the potential!
I like both. Totally different. I think though for my aesthetic I'd go with the before, the after is very nicely done. Great find.
Wow!!!!
I'm definitely digging the "after". Love the color choice.
Really gorgeous work. Thanks for the tutorial!
oh wow. I have a blanket my mom made 30+ years ago in the same pattern as the "before".
This is so well done and lovely. Bravo !
Love it!!! Where would I look for a place that offers lessons about reupholstery?
Yes, so well done ! I really like it ! Great job !!!
That is fantastic. Well done indeed!
While I think it is gorgeous I kind of wish you were able to have salvaged the flower print. It must have been really cool in it's heyday! Love the purple fabric!
THIRFT? Really?
Definitely prefer the before, but good find!
I like the before pretty well, but as a big-time thrifter, I see a lot of things like this which sort of look great and were definitely well-designed, look great from far away or in a photo, but when you get up close their age ends up totally showing in a bad way, and it turns out they are actually kind of gross and scratched and just not very pleasant. I am lazy and would definitely butcher a project like this, so I just try to clean them up as best I can and use them as-is, but I wouldn't cry over losing the original design. She did a great job (though I personally would like this a lot more in green or blue or anything but bright purple), and wound up with something she (presumably) totally loves, so it seems like it worked out pretty perfectly.
anyone know where that cute lamp is from?
I love it! So rocker-glam!
Absolutely gorgeous job. Not fond of the color, but that's just me, and the upholstery job is fantastic!
I really love the before fabric. Probably not the best application of it, but I love those old faded 1960s flower power florals. It might have something to do with growing up using my mother's childhood sheets on my bed. But this has inspired me to start looking for some old floral sheets to make curtains out of. :)
I'm looking for something like that to do over in burlap ... but I think I'm too old to wait for it to hit the thrift store again in a decade or two, though.
I love it! But you need to upgrade from the Target kid's section sheets. Not that I'm dissing them- I have the same ones! But with that super fantastic headboard, you need equally glam bedding! The color of the headboard is amazing.
One of the best after pictures I've seen here.
I love it! Great job!
swoon!
Absolutely adorbs!
Fantastic reupholstery!
HAHAHA....my sister's childhood bedroom had that EXACT "before" fabric on the bed! Sheets, bedspread, everything. Would have been purchased in the 1970s or later. Great re-do!