Padded Headboard

Learn how to make your own headboard! Save money and make it exactly how you want, with these great DIY headboard tutorials.

Space is usually at a premium in the bedroom but a headboard with storage shelves can help you to save on floor space. It can be as decorative as

We firmly believe that it’s not how much space you have that determines how efficiently and comfortably you live; but rather how you design and organize that space. We have seen so many tiny spaces that have more storage than homes three times their size! The key is using all the filler, or empty, spaces available— the gaps beneath the floor boards, the crawl space underneath the stairs.

DIY Padded Headboard | The Rush of Life

Okay, I'll say it for you: "Bad, Blogger,bad!" I have all these posts I'd like to do and life has eaten me alive lately. Finally, I'm getting around to posting about how I made my daughter's headboard for her Asian-themed room. I know there are tons of tutorials out there, but I figured I might as well add mine to the mix. (You can see more shots of her room at our basement post.) Step 1: I made a pattern for the headboard out of some old wallpaper. I figured out the size I wanted, folded it…

Okay, I'll say it for you: "Bad, Blogger,bad!" I have all these posts I'd like to do and life has eaten me alive lately. Finally, I'm gett...

DIY padded headboard ~ will be changing the white washed barn door headboard to this

DIY Padded Headboard

DIY Padded Headboard DIY Furniture

Oh, thank you all so much for the lovely comments on our master bedroom make-over. I absolutely loved the way it turned out. I'm also really glad that I decided to make our headboard myself, instead of buying one. I think it turned out better than I ever could have imagined! The photo below was my inspiration headboard. I had been drooling over this headboard for.ev.er. It's from Restoration Hardware and costs $1,500. Yikes. I'm not super stingy, but even I couldn't come close to justifying…

This is the bedroom that started it all. I love the headboard. However, I don't sew. So, I decided to make one, (thank goodness for staple guns). Oh, and all for less than $150.00. The eye photo I love. (Another post entirely). Close up of headboard. Love Gossip Girl!! I also love her new room, at Blair's house. So, I went to Michaels, and bought the cheap 16 x 20 artist canvas in the 5 pack, on sale. Then Target for the twin size cheap foam for a bed, then to the fabric store for batting by…

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Okay, I'll say it for you: "Bad, Blogger,bad!" I have all these posts I'd like to do and life has eaten me alive lately. Finally, I'm getting around to posting about how I made my daughter's headboard for her Asian-themed room. I know there are tons of tutorials out there, but I figured I might as well add mine to the mix. (You can see more shots of her room at our basement post.) Step 1: I made a pattern for the headboard out of some old wallpaper. I figured out the size I wanted, folded it…