Homemade Headboard

There is one major eyesore in our house, despite all of the work that's been done. It's our bedroom. Serial killers wake up in nicer bedrooms than ours. It's the classic decision to leave the bedroom until last because no one else sees it. Yet, we live here. We should have the nicest room in the house. We've started making minor changes and hope it's complete in the next few months. So I saw this headboard at Urban Outfitters and I thought it was adorable. I love any furniture with nail head trim.

We took the measurements from their site and went to Home Depot to pick up a piece of MDF.  Just your typical Saturday afternoon... sawing a hunk of wood off the back of the pick up truck in your driveway.  Our neighbors think we're a bunch of rednecks and I like it.

 

 

 

We sprayed the wood with some adhesive and put down the batting.  I bought a curtain for $5 from the Crate & Barrel outlet without unfolding it entirely before purchasing.  There was major sun damage and it couldn't be used.  So I put the sunbleached fabric down first and then put down the final layer of gray suede fabric.  

We bought nail head trim that comes packaged as a roll so that every ten nail heads needs to be nailed in, as opposed to individually nailng them in.  It would've been impossible to keep them straight.  Even the roll was harder than I thought.

We did the single layer of trim around the outside and, voila, it was done!  We think it looks pretty good for our first project like this.

Another angle that includes the gorgeous, gold mirror that my sister got us for our wedding!

The Urban Outfitters headboard is selling for $280 and we probably spent $50 to make ours.  Now we need to work on the rest of the room that you can't see!