The head of the bed is one of the brightest elements in the bedroom. Healthy sleep and a person’s 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.
But what if your furniture does not have a headboard? Do not be upset, because the headboard can be done independently.
What you can make a headboard of yourself
The headboard for the bed can be made in many ways. The simplest and most traditional is wall decoration with paintings or photographs. And also you can paste on the wall with wallpaper. Due to the high level of photo printing, it became possible to order almost any picture. Do not lose its relevance and textiles in the interior.
Attention! With the help of paints and brushes, you can paint the walls above the bed.
In this case, purchased stencils come in handy. A special spray can decorate the wall with a graffiti pattern.
In addition to the hand-drawn headboard, you can make a decorative wooden part or a cozy soft headboard.
How to make a headboard out of an old door
The use of old doors as the main component for the head of upholstered furniture is one of the most unusual design approaches in the interior.
Not any doors are suitable for decoration. Vintage doors of unusual shape made of wood will look beautiful. You can also independently give them the appearance of shabby and skewed and painted in the desired color. In specialized stores you can find beautiful decorative elements antique.
Having prepared the door, it is necessary to determine what position is best given to it. Most often it is installed horizontally. Sometimes designers offer vertical door placement. This method is suitable for large vacant rooms with high ceilings. But one door cannot be dispensed with in this case.
When installing doors as the head of a bed, the first thing to remember is safety. The design must be securely fastened.
Important! It is better if there are no handles or other protruding elements on the door surface.
How to make a soft headboard with your own hands
To make a soft panel for the bed, it is necessary to prepare in advance a sheet of plywood, fabric for the base and for external 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 furniture constriction.
Follow the steps below.
- Take the necessary measurements. You need to know the dimensions of the future product.
- From a piece of plywood, cut out the base according to the required parameters. This can be a rectangle, square, or any other configuration.
- We lay several layers of filler on a plywood sheet depending on the desired volume.
- Making the filler upholstery fabric for the basehaving previously fixed it with a stapler from the outside of the board.
- Further exactly the same we fit the furniture with the selected fabric.
- You can show imagination and add decorative elements.
Of the small squares
A panel of many small squares in several rows will look beautiful. The manufacturing technology of the small square is exactly the same as in the case of a homogeneous panel. Only they are still grouped together and glued to a separate plywood.
Important! As a basis, you can take the headboard from the old disassembled furniture, and use an unnecessary mattress as a filler.
By type of carriage screed
The headboard as a carriage coupler is in great demand. Consider the manufacturing process in stages.
- Making a blank of plywood and foam rubber of necessary parameters and configuration.
- Cut holes on plywood in accordance with the selected screed pattern. It can be squares or rhombuses.
- Repeat the same pattern on paper..
- We put the paper on the foam and with the help of a bright marker we put points for future holes.
In the marked places we make holes. - Further glue the foam so that the holes in the materials exactly match.
- Glue the synthetic winterizer on the foam with exactly the same recesses.
- We stretch the fabric and fix it with a stapler.
- You can take ready-made interesting buttons, but it is better to cover them with the same material as the panel. We sew the buttons to the previously designated places and fasten with thick threads starting from the center of the product.
The bed is central to the sleeping room. Its design should be in harmony with the design of the room. Following simple tips and tricks, its headboard can be made with your own hands, without resorting to additional financial costs.
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