Right after we finished our master bedroom late last year, my hubby’s dad was moving across the country and getting rid of a ton of his stuff. He sent his bed to us, a nice pretty new king bed frame, box springs and mattress. It was nice to have our new big to us bedroom to put it in. I was in love with the idea of having a side of the bed that didn’t have anyone else’s extremities in it while I am sleeping. Since one or both of my not really babies anymore still show up in my bed on a couple mornings a week, I also liked the idea of not waking up unable to move because of a creaky back or legs from sleeping funny because of sideways bodies and flinging arms.
We moved the bed in and it was wonderful.
Then we got to work on the master bathroom. For some reason – don’t ask me why, he’s usually very good at math – hubby bought one too many sheets of beadboard for the bathroom. With that spare $20 piece of paneling, we decided to make a headboard. If you think this is going to be some long DIY post, it’s not. We didn’t make anything. It’s not really a headboard. It’s just beaded board on the wall with trim around it.
It frames the bed nicely and makes a statement. I don’t know what statement or even what that means, but it just seems like it does so I am telling you it does. It’s certainly more interesting than a boring wall behind our bed with nothing, I know that.
We used the same trim around the beadboard as is around the windows and doors in the room. And, of course, the beadboard matches the adjoining bathroom so I get to say that it’s all nice and cohesive.
It ended up being just the simple solution we needed for this space so that we didn’t have to spend a boatload of dollars on a bulky real headboard. My hubby’s favorite part is that it means this is now the one room in the house that I can’t do my favorite thing ever – move furniture around.
Love.it. I just love that beadboard look, and it looks fantastic as a backdrop to your bed. Good job!
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Ooooohh! I LOVE it!!!!!!!
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LOVE it!!!! I had to laugh about what your husband had to think about not being able to re-arrange the furniture!!! I’m just like you… drives my hubby crazy to come home and everything is moved around. He loves that I can’t change things in our bedroom either.
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What a great idea! We got a king-sized mattress set last year, but we have no headboard. The mattress set is just sitting on the frame. I’ve been wondering what to do to make a headboard and this is perfect. And it would keep me from rearranging the furniture when DH would love. LOL!
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Ummm, can I say Genius?? Love this!!
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I love this. It looks really pretty and you’d never know it wasn’t an actual headboard. Good thinking! King size is nice too. I always say the bigger the bed, the better. I’m a space hog, and a blanket hog.
-FringeGirl
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I’m twenty-five and part of a family of six. Whenever we’re all home, we still always end up piled up in our parents’ bed (not for sleeping, just for chatting and the occasional episode of Jeopardy). The headboard looks great!
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Ya wanna know what bugs me about all of you home bloggers . . . . {of course you do!} Y’all are just like ~ Oh. Look! I have this left over thing I didn’t know what to do with and thought ~ Wow! I should do this with it. And then Bam! it looks so awesome. Like straight out of Southern Living or something.
I really don’t like that about y’all.
Really.
Just joking. Actually, I’m totally jealous. I wish I could just find stuff laying around and make something gorgeous and unique.
Your new headboard is so lovely!
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2 thumbs up!!!
I like the resourcefulness of using something you already had and how it ties into everything else. But even if you didn’t have it, 20 bucks for a headboard is pretty rad!
XOXO
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Very creative! It looks great.
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Wow! You rock. That looks great:-)
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I totally agree with all of the above. Brilliant!
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Love the headboard. I too love to rearrange the furniture. My husband refers to me as the Serial Room Arranger I do it so often! What a beautiful, yet simple solution for a bedroom. Well Done! I may just use your idea with my Son’s room….and his twin bed! Thanks for the inspiration!
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Love it! For so long I wanted a headboard that looked life white picket fencing, but it was so expensive (or I’m just cheap, lol!) This is just as cute, or even cuter, and so cheap! I may just have to do this too! And we can’t really move ourt furniture around anyway since we installed an Ikea wall unit, so that won’t matter.
Thanks for the idea!
Bernice
Getting the respect you deserve
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This is just so brilliant that I have to share it on my FB page! I LOVE it!! Absolutely love it!
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This is a great idea, especially since you made it with materials you had already purchased! Wishing I had a king sized bed.
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It looks beautiful! Classic and simple – and so frugal! : )
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