Finished: Project Headboard

As I mentioned several posts ago, I was on a mission to make a DIY headboard for our new bed. After a few weekends of failure, Mike and I managed to finally get it done. First, we went to Home Depot to buy a piece of plywood to form the structure of the headboard.

When we got back to the house, he got to use his new Skil Saw (with lasers!!!) to cut the plywood down to size. From there, we just layered on the foam and batting and covered it with the beautiful fabric I had found. Here is an image of our layering progress in the garage:


After we finished with the layering, we had to wrap everything around and staple it with a staple gun. Unfortunately, as is often the case in these kinds of projects, we had to make our 2nd Home Depot trip of the day since Mike couldn't find his staple gun (of course we found it a couple of days later). So after a couple more fails at getting the staple gun to work, we wrapped everything around and stapled it securely.

After a bit of trimming of the excess fabric, we brought it upstairs. Our original intention was to mount it to the wall with flush mounts. However, after positioning it behind the bed to see how high up on the wall we wanted to mount it, I decided it looked fine resting on the ground, and we decided to forego mounting.


All in all, I think it's a good height without being mounted at all. I think it's a great addition to the bedroom, and am proud of myself for being somewhat Bob Vila-esque. Go DIY!!