Since I just upgraded to a king sized bed, the old homemade headboard needed to be replaced. I wanted to go the DIY route again but increase the difficulty level. I also wanted to create something more substantial than the particle board and foam I used before. I’d seen lots of headboards on various blogs made out of wood planks and it looked easy enough.
So with no instructions to guide me, I headed to the hardware store for wood, sandpaper and metal brackets. We bought three 1′x14′ planks and had them cut into six 76″ boards (Traditional king beds are 76″ wide.). After lugging everything upstairs, I sanded all the boards and laid them out the way I wanted. I made sure the front of the headboard was facing down and the ugliest boards were the bottom to be hidden behind the bed later.
Next, I spread out the metal brackets across all the seams. There were 13 brackets total, each with four screws.
After I finished screwing in all the brackets, I felt that the headboard needed more support. Since I live in an apartment, I was uneasy about screwing all the boards into the wall. I also didn’t want any hardware showing on the front of the headboard. So I went back to the hardware store for two stabilizer boards. I had them cut 55″ long so they would be hidden behind the 60″ headboard. I simply nailed the support boards across all six planks.
From the get-go, I knew I wanted to decorate this headboard but I didn’t know exactly how. I thought about staining and painting the wood but I was working on the apartment balcony and wanted to minimize mess. I also considered freehand painting something like the word “Dream” or stenciling a large feather across the entire headboard. Well I’m not much of a painter and I couldn’t find a stencil large enough. I even bought a few sheets of poster board intending to cut my own large stencil. That task just seemed daunting so I went back to the craft store and found a beautiful damask stencil. I chose gold spray paint to keep the embellishment subtle and painted an all-over pattern on the headboard.
When the paint was dry, this monster headboard had to be pushed across the apartment because there was just no lifting it. I leaned it against the bedroom wall at enough of an angle to keep it up. What do you think?
I love this! The stencil and gold spray paint are perfect :)
Thanks! I couldn’t believe how easy it all was. It only took about 8 hours and that included running back and forth to the store.
I absolutely love this! It’s very parisienne chic. Beautiful job, as always :)
“parisienne chic” I like it.
Looks beautiful. Very creative. Can’t wait to see it.
All these changes happened right after we last saw you! You’ll have to come back soon.
Beautiful!!! And it is so original.
I am in love! Can we copy?
Copy away! I got the stencil at Michaels Craft Store.
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I love it! I just finished building a bed and I was crawling the web for headboard ideas. I’m definitely bookmarking this post as a possibility.
I’m so glad you were inspired by my post. I’d love to see pictures if you build one for yourself!
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In love! Looks simple enough, but I like the addition with the stencil!! Bookmarking now :)
Thanks! Glad you like it. :)
This is beautiful. I was wondering where the duvet cover/shams were puchased as well? I really like those!!!
Here is my post about the comforter and shams: http://simplysjostedt.com/2011/06/20/more-button-embellishments-comforter-and-shams/
I bought them at Target and sewed all the buttons on myself.
Ooh! Beautiful! Love the idea of mixing the rough boards with blingy paint! May I copy?
Go for it! :D
Love this! Where is the bedding from?
Here is my post about the comforter and shams: http://simplysjostedt.com/2011/06/20/more-button-embellishments-comforter-and-shams/ I bought them at Target and replaced all the buttons myself.
Just lovely. How did you use spray paint without getting it all over the rest of the headboard…Thanks
Cat
The stencil had a decent sized border around it and I held the spray paint can pretty close to the headboard. I was so worried about that though!
Maybe you should try pattern rollers – i started a blog about this technique some weeks ago, cause i use these ones for my artwork and postcards … you can see more work and equipment on another website which is calles strukturwalzen.de … if you want i could post one of your images on my blog and set up a ink to your article! thanks for your great tutorial and the nice pictures! Tobias
I’d never seen pattern rollers before. That would have been much easier! Thanks for sharing with me. I need to come up with an excuse to use them now. :)
I’d love it if you linked to my article. Very kind of you.
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Hey,
love what you did! my only question. where to find such a stencil. i have been looking for hours now and i woul dlike to find something similar. to no avail.
can you let us know your source please?
bw
Nadia
I found it at Michaels Craft Store in their stencil section.
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Hi, I love this headboard and have searched for this stencil. Do you know the brand of it, and was it one stencil or two??
Thanks!!!
I don’t remember the brand but I bought it at Michael’s. It was two stencils that you had to layer to get the final image.
Hi, love the headboard!
May I ask what paint color you used for your bedroom walls? I’ve been crushing on golden yellow greens lately!
Thanks! : )
My paint color was a custom mix. I bought an Anthrolopologie duvet cover a few years ago purely based on the yellow wall pictured behind it in the catalog. I took the Anthro photo to Lowes and had them match the color for me so it would go with my duvet.
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Hi!
I love! This is beautiful!
You inspire me when I make mine!
A french girl who live in France :)