When this green thumb came across a worn antique brass headboard in a second-hand shop, her thoughts turned not to the bedroom but the garden...
With the legs secured into the ground, this twin-sized headboard has found new life as a trellis. It's like it was made for it. The plant is still being trained up the spindles, but we like the look thus far.
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Comments (13)
to me, this kinda just looks like a rusty old headboard with overgrown greenery growing up it. Maybe in a different environment?
It looks a little junky.
While not nearly the same thing... I was thinking, "hmmmm - garden trellis or gate" while at IKEA on Sunday. I'll probably go back for it.
I think it's the background wall that makes it look "junky"...with a dark brick wall or as the foreground to a garden, I think it would look kinda nifty. The concept is sound.
I agree with cheapsparrow about the wall. I think it will look great when the vine has covered more of it.
This is ugly and stupid.
It's country, and you look country in it.
Seeing this is like an AHA! moment for me. I have an old iron headboard and I need a trellis (actually for the airshaft I'm cleaning up that was posted as a good question a while back).
We'll see how it looks in that space! Thanks for posting this; I'm so excited to try it out (against a brick wall, actually).
Go to Gardenweb.com and look at the Garden Junk forum gallery. Lots of this look, all over the country.
abehm21, is that a Save the Last Dance quote?
I don't like it either. I thought the whole point of a trellis was to have a tall, graceful shape that the plants can take after. Even when this is grown in, it's just going to look like a blobby green square.
I like the idea! How well it works will depend on the space it is used in and the dimensions of the headboard. It could always be turned on end if you want a trellis taller than it is wide, but some spaces want/need a lower, wider trellis (such as along side a lower height fence).
"It's country, and you look country in it."
And that's bad because...? You know, some of us country hicks actually read these interweb thingies.
My personal taste is the exact opposite of country, but my mom has a gorgeous country-style house in the country. This idea would look nice in her garden.
I've been thinking about doing this out our house for a little while now. It's nice to see this re-use, plus this gives lots of room for the vines to climb.
If this is Eric and Sandy's backyard, I always though the collection of vintage headboards was cute and not "country" at all. In context, it looks like creative re-use, which is very "them".