How to make a headboard with your own hands

The headboard is one of the striking elements in the bedroom. A person’s healthy sleep and mood largely depend on its beauty and reliability. In addition to aesthetic functions, it can significantly insulate a cold wall or provide additional sound insulation.

What if your furniture does not have a headboard? Don’t be upset, because you can make the headboard yourself.

What can you make your own headboard from?

A headboard for a bed can be made in many ways. The simplest and most traditional ones include decorating the wall with paintings or photographs. You can also cover the wall with photo wallpaper. Thanks to the high level of photo printing, it became possible to order almost any drawing. Textiles in the interior do not lose their relevance.

Attention! Using paints and brushes, you can paint the walls above the bed.

In this case, purchased stencils will come in handy. With a special spray can you can decorate a wall with a graffiti-shaped pattern.

In addition to a painted headboard, you can make a decorative wooden piece or a cozy upholstered headboard.

How to make a headboard from an old door

Using old doors as the main component for the headboard of upholstered furniture is one of the most unusual design approaches in the interior.

Not just any door is suitable for decoration. Vintage doors of unusual shape made of wood will look beautiful. You can also give them the appearance of shabby and warped yourself and paint them in the desired color. In specialized stores you can find beautiful antique decorative elements.

Having prepared the door, you need to determine what position is best to give it. Most often it is installed horizontally. Sometimes designers suggest vertical placement of doors. This method is suitable for large, open rooms with high ceilings. But in this case, one door is not enough.

When installing doors as headboards, keep safety in mind first. The structure must be securely fastened.

Important! It is better if there are no handles or other protruding elements on the surface of the door.

How to make a soft headboard with your own hands

To make a soft panel for a bed, You should prepare in advance a sheet of plywood, fabric for the base and for exterior decoration, foam rubber or other filler, a stapler and a jigsaw.

Without constriction

This method is one of the most universal and does not require reupholstering the furniture.

Follow the following sequence of actions.

• Take the necessary measurements. It is necessary to know the dimensions of the future product.
• We cut out the base from a piece of plywood according to the required parameters. It can be a rectangle, square or any other configuration.
• We lay several layers of filler on a sheet of plywood depending on the desired volume.
• We upholster the filler with fabric for the base, having previously secured it with a stapler from the outside of the board.
• Next, exactly the same we cover the furniture with the chosen fabric.
• You can show your imagination and add decorative elements.

From small squares

A panel made of many small squares in several rows will look beautiful. The technology for making a small square is exactly the same as in the case of a uniform panel. Only they are still grouped together and glued to separate plywood.

Important! You can use a headboard from old disassembled furniture as a basis, and use an unnecessary mattress as a filler.

By carriage type

A carriage-type headboard is in great demand. Let's look at the manufacturing process step by step.

• Making a blank from plywood and foam rubber of the necessary parameters and configuration.
• Cutting holes on plywood in accordance with the selected screed pattern. These can be squares or diamonds.
• We repeat the same drawing on paper.
• We lay the paper on the foam rubber and use a bright marker to place points for future holes.
  We make holes in the marked places.
• Further glue the foam rubber so that the holes in the materials match exactly.
• Glue synthetic padding onto the foam rubber with exactly the same recesses.
• We stretch the fabric and secure it with a stapler.
• You can take ready-made interesting buttons, but it’s better to cover them with the same material as the panel. We sew the buttons into pre-designated places and secure them with thick threads, starting from the center of the product.

The bed occupies a central place in the sleeping area. Its design should be harmoniously combined with the design of the room.By following simple tips and recommendations, you can make your own headboard without resorting to additional financial costs.