reader submissions

Before & After: Grandma’s Headboard Gets a Modern Twist

Tara BellucciNews and Culture Director
Tara BellucciNews and Culture Director
Tara is Apartment Therapy's News & Culture Director. When not scrolling through Instagram double-tapping pet pics and astrology memes, you'll find her thrift shopping around Boston, kayaking on the Charles, and trying not to buy more plants.
published Mar 27, 2015
We independently select these products—if you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. All prices were accurate at the time of publishing.
Bedroom with a double bed, white sheets, green curtains, vintage lamps, and a radio on a wooden nightstand.
(Image credit: Bryce)

Handed down from Bryce’s grandmother, this headboard’s mid-century stylings are hard to ignore. With a little modernization, it has a happy new home in the family.

(Image credit: Bryce)

From Bryce:

My gran recently down scaled and passed this headboard down to me. She couldn’t believe my interest in such an old piece of her furniture. I immediately saw its retro mid-century potential and spent the weekend giving it a fresh look. I removed the dated light fixtures, sanded down the existing handles and gave the drawers a new look by spraying them with a layer of Flat White RUSTOLEUM paint.

My gran is happy to have kept the piece in the family and I am happy with my a ‘head’ of the times, headboard.

Thank you Bryce!