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Ready to give your bed a fresh new look? Sink into our slide show of headboard designs.
This mantle headboard was made with foam architectural trim from Fypon. It's an affordable and lightweight alternative to wood.
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Art headboard
Headboards don't need to be heavy or complicated. This one is made of several different fabrics in similar color combinations, pieced together to form a striking composition. Like a large piece of art hanging over the bed, it acts as the room's primary focal point.
Headboard with storage
Made of Australian lacewood, this custom headboard includes a niche for storing treasures.
High-end headboard
Although interior designer Sheri Sheridan originally wanted a pricey tufted headboard, she instead bought four-packs of miniature Sorli mirror tiles from Ikea ($4.99) to create a glamorous high-end look.
Mantle headboard
This mantle headboard was made with foam architectural trim from Fypon. It's an affordable and lightweight alternative to wood.
Salvaged door headboard
Originally a pocket door, this headboard got a dreamy update with bright white paint, decorative molding, and delicate sconces that cast a soft light.
Teen's headboard
For kids' changing tastes, inexpensive style is the way to go. The album headboard is made of plywood, plexiglass, and vintage album covers found at a recycled books store.
The plexiglass face on the album headboard can easily be removed to change the album art or insert gallery or fabric.
Headboard quick-change
Update your upholstered headboard with new beachy fabric.
1. Have enough fabric to generously cover the front of your headboard and the back side about 5 inches in. Wrap the fabric over the top edge of headboard and secure with a staple in the center, about three inches in from the edge.
2. On the opposite edge, pull fabric taut and staple to secure. Repeat on remaining two sides, then staple all around the edges, pulling cloth tight. Stop 3 inches from corners.
3. Fold the fabric at one corner into a neat finish by tucking the excess underneath and smoothing the top down. Secure with three or four staples, keeping the folds flat and even. Repeat for each corner.
This striped headboard fabric is available at Beach House Style.
Wallpaper headboard
Rolls of bold, unframed wallpaper work as a headboard behind this upholstered bed at Reclaim, a home store in Menlo Park, Ca.
Wall as headboard
A room divider covered in a gingko-patterned wall paper does double duty as a headboard. The master closet hides behind the wall.
Upholstered headboard
Against a deep chocolate accent wall, this upholstered headboard is wrapped in a shimmery woven silk that's soft to the touch. Pale blue bedding contrasts with the room's rich browns.
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Reader comments (Page 1 of 1)
I hate to be a language grinch, but you do know that mantel is the proper spelling, don't you? Well, now you do--
ReplyNot only that, but mantle is the thing you light inside a camping lantern.
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A mantel as a headboard? I think not. As for the tangerine colored wall in the background, the use of such harsh colors only equates to an unsophisticated egregious appearance. This is an unfortunate trend nowadays misusing, or bastardizing a home (inside and out) with ghastly color combinations.
ReplyYou are so weird. The color is so cool and different. I would paint one of my walls this color. You have no taste at all and no adventure.LOL.
Great ideas! I especially liked the divider wall that featured the gingko pattern. Also I would like to put the orange wall paper (with the mantel headboard) in my kitchen.
ReplyI made a really cool headboard out of an old cabinet door (painted an antique bronze color) and some surplus trim, then added a metal decoration across the top that I got on sale from Hobby Lobby for $15.00. I have about $21 in the whole thing and everyone who sees it ask me where I bought it. Just see what kind of scrap you can find and use your imagination.
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