In furniture stores, beds with a beautiful headboard are an order of magnitude more expensive than standard, unremarkable sleeping furniture. At the same time, the quality and functionality are exactly the same. In order not to overpay for the decorative design of furniture, you can make a decorative headboard with your own hands. This option will provide an opportunity not only to save on the purchase, but also to show imagination at the time of finishing. You can use any leftover materials to decorate this piece of furniture, so the work will not require special costs.
How to replace the headboard yourself
Sometimes radical headboard design decisions are required. Radicality lies in the complete replacement of a piece of furniture with a better option. Before you make a headboard with your own hands, you should pay attention to the following features:
- Compatibility of the material prepared to replace the element and the fixed bed frame.
- Compliance of the material selected for replacement with the general interior design of the room.
- Practical andelement functionality, environmental friendliness and material quality.
When completely dismantling a piece of furniture, it is worth considering the course of all work. Changing the head of the bed with your own hands is quite simple, you must follow the standard algorithm:
- Take measurements from the bed, according to which the replacement part will be made.
- Buy additional fastening parts: self-tapping screws, corners to strengthen the structure.
- Using a screwdriver, mount the new headboard into the bed frame. Using metal corners, fix the screed of the elements.
If necessary, the joints can be smeared with sealant or wood glue. Such a trick will improve the connection, eliminate gaps that worsen the appearance of the bed. All actions should be done carefully so as not to damage the furniture body.
Types of self-made headboard for bed
Before you start decorating the head of the bed with your own hands, you should decide on the type of this element. The base may have a certain texture and texture. Conventionally, headboards are divided into several types:
- Soft. Do-it-yourself soft headboard is much easier to make than a hard one. It is enough to have a sewing machine, some synthetic winterizer and foam rubber.
- Solid. This arrangement requires the ability to work with wood and similar materials. If you use a ready-made base, then there will be no problems with finishing.
- Combined. This option is considered the most difficult, as it combines several finishes. Need to be ablework with different types of materials.
Another conditional division is due to dimensions. In modern bedroom interiors, it has become fashionable to have a bed with a headboard that protrudes significantly beyond the width of the bed. Beds with a headboard up to the ceiling are considered the latest fashion. The classic option is a headboard that fully matches the proportions of the bed in width and height.
What you can make your own headboard from
For your own design of the head of the bed, you can use a huge variety of materials that are definitely not used in factory production. This variety will make the bed unique in design.
If there are no specific preferences and options, then you can view designer products. Almost any such headboard can be made with your own hands from a photo. For the manufacture of furniture designers can use the following materials:
- Ordinary wooden boards. Wood should be sanded with sandpaper. Additionally, you can open with varnish.
- The remnants of a laminate or parquet board will make a wonderful headboard wall for this type of furniture.
- Forged metal headboards are now a symbol of romance and luxury.
- If no rearrangements are planned in the bedroom for a long time, then you can make this piece of furniture in the form of a mosaic, lay out tiles or natural stone.
- Upholstered headboardeasy to make with your own hands from leather, leatherette, velvet, satin, cotton.
Materials can be easily combined with each other, complementing each other. It is important that textures and textures look harmoniously together. In some cases, rough decor elements can be easily smoothed out with lighter textile parts.
How to make a soft headboard using different techniques
Before you make a soft headboard with your own hands, you should definitely decide on its type. Lots of design options:
- The current option is the hinged method of mounting an element from pillows. The old part is completely dismantled or sawn off to the base of the body. At a certain height, a cornice is fixed, to which soft pillows are attached to the tapes. Height can be easily adjusted with garters.
- Imitation tiles. The perfect way to reorganize an old item or make a brand new one. Cut plywood into equal squares. Cut the fabric into squares that are an order of magnitude larger than plywood. Place a textile square on each plywood square and glue them together on three sides. Lay a synthetic winterizer through the left opening and seal the pocket. Glue a soft tile onto a whole sheet of chipboard.
- The classic way of restoration. Lay a piece of foam rubber on a solid base. For greater effect, you can place a synthetic winterizer between the foam rubber and the wooden base. The synthetic winterizer is attached by gluing. According to the dimensions of the product, sew a cover, which, like a pillowcase, is put on through the top. You can attach textiles to the base with a construction stapler.
Having decided on the method of making a soft textile element, you can understand how to make a headboard with your own hands from leather and leatherette. The principle of operation is completely identical.
Designer options for decorating the decorative part of the bed
In order not to wait for inspiration to create a masterpiece, for example, you can use design work. DIY headboard ideas are easy to regenerate by looking at a finished role model. In addition to standard materials, experienced people in the field of design suggest using an original approach in design.
Designer options for the head of the bed with your own hands are easy to implement without the ability to work with materials of various types:
- A very popular option is stenciling with paint. The drawing is applied directly to the wall. In this case, the main headboard is dismantled.
- On the wall, you can make an application from the wallpaper. A simpler option is to stick three strips up to the ceiling.
- A picture in a frame painted on canvas is an interesting option for decorating the head of a bed.
- A variety of patterns are formed from fabric according to the type of canopy: a sail, a waterfall, stripes.
Design ideas are not limited to conventional methods, materials and ways. At the same time, the cost of finishing is mere pennies. It is best to use old decor elements that have remained intact: mirrors, decorative pillows, photographsframes, soft toys and more.
Wood as a design option for the headboard of bedroom furniture
Working with wood requires certain skills, a woman will not always be able to cope with the processing of such material.
But there are other arrangements. Do-it-yourself wooden headboard is easy to make from already processed materials. To do this, it is enough to use the remains of building material or finished wood products:
- Parquet or laminate board. You can make whole paintings in the style of abstraction, which are placed in a common or separate frame.
- Old interior doors. Such elements can be installed without additional fixings, leaning against the wall and propped up by the bed.
- Doors from an old closet. Installed using the method described above. You can place canvases vertically.
- Stairs from the Swedish wall. Placement can be vertical or horizontal.
- Pallets, bamboo blinds. This design has recently been especially popular among designers.
A panel made using the lacing method will look unique. To do this, a canvas made of chipboard or fiberboard must be drilled through in a certain sequence. Use twine or other thread to lace. By the same principle, paintings are created by weaving a pattern from a vine, straw.
To innovate the design, you can change the design by painting the base in other colors. Auxiliarydecorative elements can be threads, pebbles, beads.
Small shelves can be placed on a solid and strong surface. On auxiliary surfaces, you can place books, vases, figurines, lamps, personal items of a non-decorative nature.
Carriage screed as an option for finishing a bed in an aristocratic style
In a modern design, especially in a classic style, a coupler will become an actual method of finishing the headboard of a bed. Do-it-yourself screed for the head of the bed is made exclusively from expensive and dense fabric. Genuine leather, suede, velvet are often used. It is worth choosing exclusively plain bases without prints and patterns. This type of decor is often compared to a carriage tie, so all decor elements must match the aristocratic style.
To design a carriage tie on the head of the bed with your own hands, you need to prepare the following materials and fixtures:
- Fabric or leather for exterior finish.
- Foam rubber and synthetic winterizer.
- Drill, scissors, construction stapler.
- Glue for wood and thick nylon thread.
- Hook needle and scissors.
- Large buttons, glass stones.
- Secrets and furniture hangers.
- Wooden base.
Additional tools may be needed if additional decoration is to be done. Sometimes the edges are trimmed with fringe or other type of textile to create a contrasting border.
The embodiment of the carriage tie at home
Make a carriage headboarddo-it-yourself beds are quite simple if you follow the steps exactly. Then the result will be no worse than in expensive furniture stores. For optimal results, you should use a photo of the head of the bed with your own hands.
Steps of forming a carriage tie:
- Cut the foam to the shape of the wooden base. Make a markup regarding the location of the buttons.
- In the foam rubber where the button will be fixed, use scissors to make holes with a diameter of 2-3 centimeters.
- Glue the foam rubber to the wooden base using special glue.
- Use a drill to make holes in the middle of each circle in the foam rubber.
- A thin layer of padding polyester is laid on the foam rubber. Put a fabric on top, wrapping it behind a wooden base. Secure the material with a construction stapler.
- Sew a button or a glass stone into each opening. The thread should match the color of the material. For better fixation of the thread, it is worth additionally fixing it with a stapler.
- The last stage is the installation of the covered wooden base to the bed frame.
To create a more original screed decor, you can apply the effect of forming rhombuses between the buttons. Then the installation scheme at the stage of tissue fixation will change slightly:
- Lay the fabric on the foam rubber with padding polyester, fix the places where the buttons will be sewn with safety pins.
- Sew diamonds between future fixation points of decorative elements.
- Unfasten the safety pins and fix the fabric onwooden stapler.
- The last step will be sewing on buttons at the intersection of the diamonds.
Double bed headboard fixing methods after renovation
The headboard of a double bed, created by hand, requires proper fastening. There are several options for fixing this element. The installation method is determined by the interior design and the type of headboard.
The best mounting options are:
- Mounting the bed base to the wall. Ideal for fixing solid wood sheets. Loops are screwed into the product, and self-tapping hooks are driven into the wall. The headboard is attached at such a level that the bed frame is not lower than the canvas.
- Connect directly to the bed frame. Installation is carried out by drilling holes in the furniture body and fastening the headboard with self-tapping screws to the main frame.
- The headboard stands on legs separately from the bed, without fixing to the wall. The finished canvas is installed on the legs. The immobility of the canvas is guaranteed by fixing the bed and the wall on both sides.
If the headboard is multi-level and occupies a huge wall area above the bed, then you should use several mounting options. This method is relevant in the case when the main part is screwed to the bed, the second level of fabric is hung on a baguette.
Decorating the finished headboard with various techniques
If the bed looks quite presentable and has not worn out at all, then you do not need to change the headboard - just updatecanvas. In accordance with this, you should first decide on the functionality of the room and the overall design.
Update your headboard with your own hands using simple techniques as follows:
- Introduce soft elements into the design of the case. Cut out individual geometric shapes from plywood and cover them with a fabric filled with synthetic winterizer. Glue the elements in sequential or random order.
- The most elementary method of updating are decorative pillows. Fix small baguettes on the basis of the old headboard, to which pillows will be attached using ribbon ties.
- Change of color scheme through the technique of decoupage, repainting, wallpapering. Sometimes these 3 methods are combined within the same plane.
- To hide an old headboard quickly and without much expense, you can sew several thick fabric covers. Each case can be designed to match a specific season.
- Introduce additional items made of wood, metal or plastic. The actual option will be the letters of the Latin alphabet, painted in different colors. Elements are screwed or glued to the base.
- Modeling from polymer clay has become topical. You can make figures of animals, people, plants and fix the products around the perimeter of the entire headboard.
Update methods can be completely different. The complexity of the implementation varies by the degree of deterioration of the base headboard. Sometimes the best update methodis a complete demolition. The decoration zone can be decorated directly on the wall surface using wallpaper, textile stretches.
