If I post one more DIY headboard idea, I'm scared I might be dubbed that crazy headboard lady. Alas, when I find great easy projects like this one, I feel it is my duty as an Apartment Therapy contributor to bring it to your attention. So, while risking my good name, here is a fun paint project that can quickly add a headboard to a bedroom that desperately needs one.
With some painters tape, a paint pen and a steady hand, this bed now has a sophisticated looking yet playful headboard. Style At Home recommends painting the area surrounding the headboard a dark matte color, but I'm curious to see if painting a dark colored headboard (detailed with a light colored paint pen) would be just as successful. Whatever color you choose, be sure to note that part of what makes this all work is how the bedside table matches the headboard adding to the trompe l'oiel effect.
Head over to Style At Home | Paint project: Headboard for full instructions as well as a button tufting design template.
(Image credit: Angus Fergusson / Style At Home)
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Can someone identify where this bedding comes from?
Dear AT Editors:
Can you PLEASE shut the crazy headboard lady up?
(Hee, just kidding, Jess! Thanks for the idea!)
Are the "tufts" painted on?
Interesting idea for a space where th bulk of a real headboard becomes a traffic hazard! (I used a big woven tapestry in my guest room for similar reasons.)
"Are the "tufts" painted on?"
No, they stuck a pin in the drywall and tufted the wall...
:-/
Crazy headboard lady or not, I like the idea of painting tufted details. And that bedding is GORGEOUS!
Bedding is Amy Butler-
onsale now-http://www.designerlinensoutlet.com/store/product1.asp?Product_ID=116247&ProdName=Amy-Butler-Caracas
NOT FUNNY
English tidbit:
"Tufted Trompe L'oeil Headboard" should be "Trompe L'oeil Tufted Headboard."
The first implies that the headboard is painted on the wall, then still actually tacked and tufted. The second means the tufted headboard is completely painted.
When I first read the title, I was rather confused... :)
sorry, clampers, that was kind of funny, you have to admit. but RQinGeorgia is right, the wording is wrong, and does imply that it is actually tufted. (bepsf is just a little mean)
I like this headboard better than my real headboard... damn.
hmmmm.... i'd like to move the bed 5" to the right......
Please can anyone tell these people they can get mdf or plywood in their town! No point in ruining the wall!
Upon rereading the title, I have to agree and have made the adjustment. I must have been distracted by my excitement of putting some of my college art history terminology to use.
Sorry for the initial confusion!
Jess
I guess my sarcasm font is not loading correctly.