Create a designer headboard or canopy for the abode’s bedroom

We all take pleasure in a luxurious and comfy bed. When we arrive at a hotel room the first thing we do is try out the bed. Everyone has a little bit of Goldilocks in them.

The bedroom is where children can make up their fairytale land or pretend they are a super sports star or singing sensation. For adults the bedroom is where we get away, read, dream, and meditate. The bedroom’s décor should mirror our desires.

The bedroom is our own private sanctuary. It should reflect its owner’s personality.

A lovely headboard is what frames the bed and becomes a major center piece of the room. There is no need to purchase the same readymade headboard that you can see in any home.

Build your own headboard to echo your inner being. 

• Repurpose old wooden doors or shutters. Paint them and place as a headboard.

• An attractive folding screen attached to the wall looks lovely behind a bed.

• Don’t throw out Grandma’s old tri-fold vanity mirror; paint the frame and attach it to the wall as a headboard to make your own designer piece.

  

• Find an antique mantel to use behind your bed.

• A plain piece of cheap plywood can make a sleek, contemporary headboard. Sand it, stain it, seal it, and place it behind the bed.

• Create the illusion of a headboard on the wall behind the bed; paint a picture of a headboard or use a stencil on the wall, frame fabric or wall paper on the wall with molding behind the bed, paint a mural.

  

• A grouping of ribboned fabric bulletin boards on the wall, behind the bed, make a pretty headboard and gives a place to place notes if you spend your nights deep in thought.

  

• Attach tall wood wainscot on the wall behind the bed and trim it with molding and paint or stain it.

• Buy a section of picket fence, paint or stain it, and use it for your headboard. This looks great in a child’s room.

  

• Use a quilt or pretty area rug to hang on the wall behind the bed.

• Create your own easy upholstered headboard look by simply attaching upholstered square sections to the wall.

• If you are more adventurous then build an upholstered headboard yourself. Check out easy to follow instructions at bejane.com

• Be really creative in the kids room, or if you are a big kid, yourself and use baseball bats or hockey sticks to create a headboard.

  

Do you dream of a canopy bed?

• Simply hang some fabric, tapestry, or sheet draped from ceiling nailed in at all four corners of bed.

• Run fabric on the wall behind the bed to the ceiling. Place a rod to hold fabric where ceiling meets the wall then drape the fabric over the bed finishing it attached to another rod.

  

• Attach curtain rods to the ceiling around all four sides of the bed. Hang curtains draped in each corner.

  

Be creative; try draping fabric in different ways to create your own canopy design.

When you are finished creating sink into your bed and enjoy the surroundings. Relax and drift off into dreamland. Never be afraid to dance!

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