I'm always looking at ideas for headboards and waiting for the day I have a bedroom big enough to fit a proper one. When I ran across this image it brought up a whole new headboard question for me that I hadn't considered before, "Where does a headboard end and the ceiling begin?"
I think a lot of concerns come up when deciding upon a headboard style for your bedroom. Do you want to go simple or dramatic? What decor genre do you want it to be? Do you want to make it the main focus or underplay it a bit?
What I liked about this image from House To Home is that it shows how headboards can easily become a statement piece and define the style of the space in a completely different way. I love that it defies standard headboard size and continues up the wall and onto the ceiling for an atypical canopy effect. I also like how it creates a new space and surface to hang lights, planters, art or a chandelier from. I think you could keep it natural looking or get a little wild by painting, stenciling, wallpapering, or even striping the wood for a more modern, stylized statement. If you have the space, which I hope to have someday soon, I think it might be fun to start re-thinking headboard style in this new way.
Image: House To Home
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I like how it looks in this space. I feel the high ceilings are a plus, this wouldn't have the same impact in my space, it would just make the room feel smaller. Love that bedspread, too.
Um...where does the mirror go?
I like this idea a lot-- especially since I'm prevented from having a fabric canopy because of asthma.
I love this. When I actually have my own house I plan on getting a huge headboard. I can't wait- I want it to be a centerpiece.
I can't help but think that it photographs much better than the way it actually looks.
I guess it's not for earthquake country, huh?
i'd take it further and add sheer panels to the sides attached at the ceiling edge.
The W Hotel in Manhattan has this kind of headboard and frankly, I felt a little claustrophobic. I kept thinking of that horrible scene in the (AWESOME) movie House on Silent Hill (I think) where the bed envelops and tries to kill the antagonist.
can anyone identify the maker of that bedspread? i neeeeeed!
I love that aeonium pillow.
Taking the headboard to the ceiling is one thing, but I don't think I could sleep with it above me.
I need that bedspread too!!
The picture is originally from Living etc earlier this year or last year, if that helps identify the quilt...
Also trying to identify the quilt. Can't seem to find it on Living etc. Any other ideas? Or ideas for something similar?
Bedspread is from Gossypium, UK.
http://www.housetohome.co.uk/bedroom/picture/rustic-bedroom-4
Please let us know/post here if you find this bedspread here in the US.
Thank you :)
please secure it. i dont want that wood to fall on me.
according to my fwend who 'tried' to teach me Interiors101 - DO NOT LEAVE ANYTHING OVER YOUR BED (frames, shelves etc..) because the nailing might come off and you dont wanna die in your sleep. ...years later im still a "nothing above my bed" kinda gurl. =/
ps: echo gwylan - looks v nice in this set up =)
The concept has potential, but I don't care for the shadowed empty space between the ceiling and the horizontal wood section. That open area makes the wood section look liable to fall.
Staring up at that headboard would give me Flat Stanley dreams.