DIY headboard

If you have been to our house, you have probably noticed that all the beds we have are super low. Andrew has a thing with high beds...he HATES them. He claims that his pillow falls off the bed during the night and he has to practically get off the bed to pick it up. So low beds it is in the Hodgson house. Even Corals pallet bed is low (although I never really have to worry about her falling off the bed).

So when we got married, we went to Ikea and bought the Malm bed, king size (trust me, king size was needed for us). It's a very basic bed. Kinda boring actually. But as boring as it may appear, this bed can easily be transformed. The headboard is just a huge rectangle, which makes it super simple to reupholster. Our headboard has been the basic black, yellow and grey, cream with light blue damask, and black again. Because its so simple to do, the whole reupholstering usually only takes about 20 min.

Here's what I did this time. And yes, I know I'm about three weeks away from giving birth, but what's a nesting mama gonna do?




This is what we're starting off with. Plain, black, boring rectangle. No romance. Lets spruce it up shall we.

First, I took an old blanket we had laying around, and draped it over the headboard. Then I took a cream coloured top sheet we had and placed it over top the blanket. I did this for two reasons.
1. So the headboard would be soft and a tad bit fluffy. If there was no blanket, it would be one hard headboard with a piece of fabric over top.
2. The cream coloured sheet was because the blanket I used was blue, and the material I was using to reupholster is burlap. Slightly see through.

Then, I stapled everything into place so it's nice and snug.

And now the fun part. I LOVE burlap. I love love love it. It's cheap, and it looks fantastic. Again, all I did was drape the burlap over the headboard, pull tight where it needed to be pulled, and stapled (ah I love my staple gun).




Cream coloured burlap.
Next I added some bling. This part obviously took longer then the usual 20 min, but it was so worth it. Has anyone ever used upholstery tacks? There a pain in the butt, but look so good.




Ok, so there not totally straight. Give me a break, I'm nine months pregnant and can hardly bend over, what did you expect. Andrew, bless his heart says he likes that they are not perfectly lined up and that it gives it more of a vintage feel (what a good hubby eh).

Here's the finished product.
















And now to finish those end tables.....