How To Make A Headboard With Your Own Hands: Ideas And Stuff + Photos And Videos

2024 Author: Bailey Albertson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-17 22:26

DIY headboard

In our difficult time, in order to be known as a person with imagination and taste, you need to be able to fill the house with exclusive, piece things, not like others. We want the interior of our home to characterize us without words, to be comfortable and pleasing to the eye. And if the store doesn't have what we need for this, we try to do it ourselves. You say, “you’re craving for inventions”? We call it creativity, individual style and the search for non-standard solutions.

In this case, let's try to decorate and refine our bed with a headboard. It can be decorative or functional, but it is definitely better with it than without it.

First you need to decide which of the many options is right for you. Lovers of reading before bedtime, it is better to stay on a soft headboard, which will be pleasant to lean on. In a country-style bedroom with an emphasis on sustainable materials, it makes sense to have a high wooden headboard. If you are planning to make your dream of living in the French countryside come true in your bedroom interior, try starting with a Provence-style headboard. A young family can afford to experiment with decorating a headboard with improvised materials, especially since this is often the only thing that she can afford. In general, look, choose, correlate with your abilities and capabilities, create with your own hands. So, let's get started.

Content

• 1 Headboard for Kapitone bed (carriage tie): step by step instructions

  1.1 How to make a soft backboard with a pattern of furniture nails

• 2 Related Videos

  • 2.1 Ideas, options and methods for attaching the headboard

    • 2.1.1 Style "Provence", photo
    • 2.1.2 Bedroom in the "Loft" style
    • 2.1.3 How to design a "Japanese" style
    • 2.1.4 "Patchwork"
  • 2.2 Unusual headrest of the bed in the style of "Patchwork" - making it yourself

  • 2.3 Wooden headboard

    2.3.1 Wooden headboard with shelves

  • 2.4 Headboard made of improvised means

Backrest for Kapitone bed (carriage tie): step by step instructions

Carriage coupler - the modest charm of the bourgeoisie

This is the case when beauty requires sacrifice. The carriage coupler looks rich, therefore, requires appropriate investment.

To make a capitonne bed backrest, you will need:

• a sheet of plywood as wide as your bed and at least 60 cm high;
• dense beautiful fabric of rich color that drapes well (velvet, artificial suede, leather, eco-leather, velor, flock);
• thick foam rubber (about 5 cm) the size of the plywood base;
• synthetic winterizer of the same size, plus a margin of 5 cm on each side;
• large buttons with an eyelet (can be replaced with accessories in the form of beads or crystals);
• strong, but not thick, cord or lace for securing buttons, which must pass through the eye of a button or other accessories;
• wall mountings, self-tapping screws, universal glue;
• tools: plywood drill, furniture stapler, scissors, knife or metal tube, crochet hook.

1. Cut plywood to the desired size in the shape of a rectangle or with a curly edge for more chic.

2. We adjust the foam rubber to the size and shape of the plywood base.

   

   Cut out the base of the future headboard

3. We make markings on the foam rubber in the places where it is planned to fasten the buttons. They can be placed under each other, then the tie will turn out in the form of squares, or in a checkerboard pattern so that the rhombuses come out.

4. We make holes in the foam using a knife or a preheated metal tube. The tube heats up initially for 3-4 minutes, then 15-20 seconds is enough. After one heating, 2-3 holes can be made. Before starting work, you should take care of the safety of the floor, for example, put a sheet of plywood or hardboard.

   

   Cut out the foam in the places where the buttons will be

5. On the plywood blank, we spread the foam rubber with ready-made holes, through which we make notes with a pencil on the plywood.

6. We remove the foam rubber, in the marked places we drill holes with an eight millimeter drill in wood.

   

   We make a blank for a carriage coupler

7. Using universal glue, we fix the foam rubber on the plywood, making sure that the holes and edges are perfectly aligned.

8. Cover the top with an even layer of padding polyester (a margin of 5 cm on each side).

   

   We glue the synthetic winterizer on the foam rubber, and attach everything together to the plywood

9. We cover the synthetic winterizer with a cloth (a margin of 10 cm on each side), align, attach to the plywood on the back side with a furniture stapler with thickened staples.

   

   We wrap the headboard blank with fabric

10. Preparing buttons or other selected accessories. In order for the screed to look like a single piece, the buttons are usually covered with upholstery fabric. Then, through the "leg" of the button, we pass the prepared tourniquet with a length of 15 cm and tighten it with a knot. We lower the button into the prepared hole from the front side, and use a crochet hook to pull the cord loop to the “wrong” side.

    

    We prepare buttons, fix them on the future headboard

11. We deepen the button into the hole so that the folds on the fabric are more noticeable, we fix the loop with furniture staples on the plywood from the “wrong” side.

    

    We fix the loops on the inside of the headboard

12. You can leave it that way, or you can close the plywood with a dense purl fabric so that everything is neat from all sides.
13. Using self-tapping screws, we fix the mounts on the inside of the headboard, and then hang them on the wall at the head of the bed.

Watch the video for an even better understanding of the carriage coupler technology.

How to make a soft backboard with a pattern of furniture nails

Soft headboard

Another option for making a soft headboard, less troublesome than the previous one, but also requires preparation and patience.

In order to make a soft headboard with a pattern of nails, you will need:

• a sheet of plywood, the width of a bed, any height;
• thick fabric 30–40 centimeters longer than plywood on each side;
• batting or synthetic winterizer at the rate of 3-4 layers of plywood size plus 10 cm from each edge;
• glue, furniture nails, furniture stapler.

1. Cut out a rectangle or curly blank (for example, such as shown in the video) from plywood.

   

   Cut out the base from plywood of the desired shape and size

2. We lay out batting or synthetic winterizer in layers, sequentially gluing each subsequent layer to the previous one. The first layer is attached to plywood.

   

   We glue the synthetic winterizer in layers

3. We wrap the allowance on the back of the plywood and attach it with a furniture stapler.

   

   We fix the synthetic winterizer on the reverse side

4. Turn the blank over with the batting up. We smear or sprinkle with glue and gently, evenly, smoothing out any folds and wrinkles, roll the prepared fabric onto the sticky batting.

5. After drying, wrap the fabric on the back of the workpiece, stretch it and attach it to the plywood with a furniture stapler.

   

   With a stapler we fix the canvas from the back of the workpiece

6. You can make any drawing with nails, we will consider the simplest one - a frame along the edge.
7. In order for it to really resemble a frame, you need to try very hard to make sure that the nails are nailed evenly, deeply, at an equal distance from each other. This rule should be followed when decorating the headboard with any other selected pattern.

8. To make an even straight line, you need to put 2 points in opposite corners of one side of the workpiece at an equal distance from the edges (for example, 5 cm).

   

   We put points on the surface of the future headboard

9. Then drive into the points on a furniture nail, pull a thread between them and put points along it with a pencil at an equal distance from each other, for example, with an interval of 1 cm.

   

   Carefully measure the equal distance for the nails

10. In the designated places we hammer in nails of the same size.

    

    We hammer in nails in designated places

    11. We fix the back in any of the ways described below

Related Videos

A similar technique for decorating a curly headboard can be seen in the video.

The two previous methods for decorating the headboard are suitable both for making a completely new headboard and for updating an old one. Cut out a rectangle or curly blank (for example, such as shown in the video) from plywood.

Ideas, options and methods for attaching the headboard

There are several ways to attach the headboard.

1. Against the wall behind the bed. We fasten two furniture hinges with self-tapping screws to the back of the headboard, and hang them on the bolts in the wall.

   

   The headboard can be attached directly to the wall behind the bed

2. To the bed frame. From the outside of the frame, on the sides we drill 2 holes, through which we then screw the headboard to the bed with screws.

   

   Attach the headboard to the bed frame

3. Free-standing construction with legs. Ready-made wooden legs can be bought in a store or cut yourself. Screw the legs to the headboard and place a new backrest between the wall and the bed.

   

   We attach the legs to the back and place between the wall and the bed

Designers are hard-working people, with imagination and taste, but even they need some guidelines to determine the general concept of room decoration, or, in other words, the style in which they will work. In this case, we are our own designers, but why reinvent the wheel, if you can peep how professionals make it and bring something of our own. Let's take a short walk through some interior styles, and perhaps find something suitable for ourselves and embody it in the design of the headboard of our bed.

Style "Provence", photo

Associations: romantic, light, cozy, sharman. "Provence" - stylization for the life of an old French village: a lot of textiles with floral patterns, light colors (white, gray, blue, lavender, light green). Wooden furniture with or without forging elements, as a rule, painted and aged. A headboard in this style can be made from wooden painted boards, from old doors in a new way. For a soft back, it is worth using a light-colored fabric with a small flower.

The predominance of lavender and floral patterns

The tree is painted and artificially aged

The predominance of gentle light tones

Evokes dreams of a French countryside

Loft style bedroom

Associations: freedom, laconism, industrialism, brutality and simplicity. The characteristic features of the loft: fragments of rough brickwork on the walls, simple wooden ceilings and floors, a minimum of partitions and furniture - a maximum of light and free space. There is not much decor, but it must be there. A headboard in this style should be simple. For example, the step-by-step instructions for making a soft headboard with a nail pattern described above are made from a loft-style art canvas.

Headboard in a laconic loft style

Simplicity in decoration

Headboard in the form of a radiator

A soft headboard also fits perfectly into a loft-style bedroom

How to design a "Japanese" style

Associations: laconic colors, podium beds, screens, fans. There is little furniture and only from natural natural materials in dark colors. The headboard, as a rule, is geometrically regular in shape, solid or with soft overlays made of fabrics with a recognizable national ornament (hieroglyphs, images of people in national costumes, mountains, cherry blossoms) or plain. You can simply hang a fan or an image of a hieroglyph on the wall. In general, there are a lot of options, and therefore, as the Japanese say: "After thinking, make up your mind, but when you decide, don't think."

Fans on the wall complete the composition

The image of a hieroglyph on the fabric as a headboard

A headboard made of plain fabric, but a wall with a national landscape

A painting depicting people in national costumes adorns the head of the bed

Patchwork

There is only one association - shreds !!! Patchwork quilts, pillows, rugs, and bed headboards are fun, bright, funny and unique. There are no two identical patchwork products and cannot be. Patchwork products are also actively used as decorative elements in the country style. Composing something out of many small pieces is always fun, but tiring. And yet, as the Japanese say … (see above).

Patchwork pillows on the wall at the head of the bed

Another option for a patchwork headboard

You can make a flat wall panel as a headboard

Niche in patches as a headboard for a bed

Unusual headrest of the bed in the style of "Patchwork" - handmade

We make the headboard of the bed from multi-colored pillows

To make a soft headboard in the form of rag pillows, you will need:

• 2 sheets of plywood 19 mm thick or orgolite;
• dense foam rubber;
• batting;
• fabric of four or more colors, at the rate of 30x30 cm - one flap;
• glue, adhesive tape, screws, wall mounts (2 pcs.);
• tool: saw or hacksaw, furniture stapler, screwdriver.

1. We cut out both sheets of plywood along the width of the head of the bed, of arbitrary height so that the width and height are multiples of 20 cm (in the photo, a sheet of 160x100 cm)
2. On one sheet we draw a grid of 20x20 cm, cut into squares.
3. From foam rubber and batting we make squares of the same size as from plywood (20x20 cm).
4. We cut the fabric into strips 30x30 cm.
5. On each plywood square we glue the same piece of foam rubber, then batting. Lastly, we glue the fabric in such a way that the same margin of 10 cm remains on all sides.

6. We stretch the fabric so that it does not wrinkle, tuck the remnants onto the back side, fix it with a stapler in a certain sequence: first one corner, then the opposite, then the remaining corners.

   

   Making pillows for the headboard

7. For the size of the finished panel 160x100 cm, you need to make 40 pillows in several colors.

   

   You need to prepare 40 multi-colored pillows

8. Lay out 5 rows of 8 pillows, face down, making sure that they fit snugly together. We glue the tape around the perimeter of the future finished product.

9. On top we put the second whole sheet of plywood and screw each pillow to it with screws. To get it neat, you need to mark the attachment points in advance (you can draw the same grid as on the first sheet) and pick up screws of suitable length so that they do not cut through the plywood base of the pillows.

   

   Attach to the plywood sheet with screws

10. We fasten the wall mounts to the back panel of the headboard on both sides.

    

    We fix the finished headboard on the wall

Wooden headboard

There are a lot of ideas for decorating the head of the bed with wooden boards, and for this, both even, painted specimens and knotty, slightly processed ones are used for this. Fitting into the overall style of the interior plays a key role in the success of this design of the headboard. If the bedroom is designed in the "baroque" palace style, no one in his mind and sober memory will install the headboard in the form of a fence, this is understandable. But even if the bedroom is quite ordinary for itself, with a classic storeroom set, a wardrobe, in general, everything is like people, and suddenly a palisade at the head - it will look just as ridiculous as in the first case. Therefore, try to support such accents with something else - furniture, accessories, lamps, so that everything is harmonious. As for the classic wood headboard,then it does not need special support.

The drawing is applied using a stencil

Wooden headboard in the form of a fence looks unusual

Even whole logs can serve as a headboard in a suitable interior

This is no longer just a headboard, but a whole area in the bedroom made of wooden planks

Wooden headboard can be decorated with decoupage

Wooden headboard with shelves

Extremely convenient, just a godsend, for a small bedroom, a headboard with shelves may turn out to be. Usually many shelves are not made - two or three at most. The bottom shelf can be made closed, put there every little thing, usually resting in bedside tables and dressing tables. It makes sense to use the second open shelf exclusively for decorative purposes. Place several interior knick-knacks on it, one or two photographs, a light garland or small hanging lamps.

Comfortable and beautiful - headboard in the form of a niche with a shelf

You can make a headboard with many shelves if you arrange them correctly.

Another option with a shelf at the head

For a small bedroom, an excellent solution is a shelf-niche at the head of the bed

Headboard made of improvised means

Finally we got to the young couple, who at the very beginning they promised to offer original and budget options for decorating the head of the bed. Indeed, seemingly familiar things, used in a new role for themselves, can become the very exclusive detail that will make the interior spectacular and unique. Pillows, doors, window frames, curtains and simply cuts of fabric in skillful hands turn into inimitable decorative elements, thanks to which the interior takes on a new look. Take a look at the pictures and decide which option suits you best.

Cornice with curtain will decorate the headboard

Well-fixed open books will be a one-of-a-kind headboard

An old door served right makes a great headboard.

Bonded pillows as a headboard

Peeled old window frames at the headboard

Beautifully designed pallets can also serve as a headboard

Another simple and affordable option is the image of the headboard on the wall (sticker, drawing through a stencil)

How many times, looking through such articles, we caught ourselves thinking: “How can everything turn out to be easy to do. Why didn't I think of this myself? Now I’ll go and buy fabric, find plywood and make myself a new interior detail, and then I’ll change the furniture and wallpaper …”But very soon everyday worries of everyday life push aside this commendable intention, it begins to seem to us that only some artisan and clever can do it people. But it is not in vain that another Japanese proverb says: "If you set out on your own, then a thousand ri seems to be one." So feel free to grab a hammer, scissors and glue, arm yourself with the desire to bring variety and beauty into your life, and everything will definitely work out.