A few months back Abby posted a great list of bedroom headboard ideas via Flickr. We wanted to revisit the subject with a DIY perspective in mind, and have come up with 11 additional inspiring ideas for bedroom decor that range from very simple to quite involved, very cheap to check your wallet in budget...check them all out below the jump!
The Clark family's DIY fabric headboard compliments their bedding quite nicely while clearly designating their sleeping area with a sizable headboard.
Megan of BeachBungalow8 decorated a guest room with two salvaged doors as a headboard. Too bad they weren't positioned to open up like real doors.
We never considered crocheted designs for a headboard, but we're quite smitten with this crafty DIY solution shown by Little Purl of the Orient comprised of 12 granny squares. Very cute.
Bradford Shellhammer of the DWR blog shared this idea for a designer skateboard headboard. But no need to shell out big cash for limited edition decks. Just purchase some blank decks for as low as $10.99 each and decorate/paint/cover them with your own images.
Martha Stewart with an elegant rug scroll headboard example.
Flickr user marytsao was kind enough to share this DIY idea from Sunset Magazine's "Sunset Idea House" she snapped of a headboard comprised of 12 record albums. Now where are all of our old The Smiths albums...?
Clarklab's detailed step-by-step headboard lighting project.
How about taking chalkboard paint or adhesive panels and using it as message/reminder board right in the bedroom? You can even schedule for some "quality time" [wink wink]. Image via carolsliziak
A headboard can be as simple as hanging a unique/interesting piece of fashion above the bed, as shown from one of our favourite house tours of all time.
Take your favourite image, blow it up, and have a print mounted onto canvas, as spelled out by blogger, Poppytalk
Got a corner bed? How about a corner headboard. Looks like a simple project of adjoining two large pieces of painted canvas sized for your bed and corner. [image Domino]
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Why on earth would anyone want a chalkboard or a giant photo of granny-panties as their headboard?!?!?
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bepsf: diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks. I'm sure we all have decor or aesthetic choices in our homes another would find personally disagreeable.
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i like these ideas! the husband and i have been wanting to make a diy headboard for awhile. we've got 8 sets of antique shutters (no two sets match) that we were going to give away, but now we're considering mounting them to the wall in some sort of headboard-like fashion. they're currently dark-stained wood, and we've been trying to figure out whether or not to paint them. and whether this idea can be executed so that it looks more modern/fresh than country! has anybody run across inspiration photos for such a thing?
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Does that mean that chalk dust gets in your bed? Maybe that's a different strokes consideration as well. I think I will just glue some peanut shells to the wall and call it day.
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I really like the ideas of using painted canvases as your headboard (either a solid color or a picture), but here's my question:
if you sit in bead leaning against your headboard reading like i do, won't that stretch the canvas out after a while? what would be a cheap material to put behind it to make it solid?
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l-girl, staple it to wood instead of using a canvas.
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that martha stewart one was from Blueprint. they did over the editor's 1br in the village or chelsea. that's upholstery fabric.
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L-Girl: try plywood. Staple some batting or foam to your piece of plywood, and then stretch some fabric/canvas over that and staple.
I'm not a painter, so I've never worked with canvas, but I know this works well with fabric. I can imagine it would work well for canvas as well, although I know canvas is stiffer.
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Rainyday you beat me to it! Fabric works really well, and the headboard is easy to make. Find some fabric you like, L-Girl, get a good staple gun, MDF board and voila! To keep the loose ends of fabric under control, it's a good idea to get a thinner piece of MDF board to use as backing. I've remade mine a few times, just remove the staples and change the fabric when you get bored!
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I have all my brainstorms when I'm about to fall asleep- plus thats when i remember all the little chores I (or my hubby) have to take care of the next day. That chalkboard would be awesome... 'cept for the chalkdust...
Though I have been looking for a chalkboard for the near the shower- where I re-remember what has to get done that day...
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