Headboard

My room looked very bare and not decorated.  Not that the rest of my house is perfect, but truth be told, my pillows kept falling between the bed and the wall and it was making me crazy.  I got to kill 2 birds with one stone on this project.

Here is the solution...

This project cost $43 and took about 2 hours.  


Material was 2.95/yard @ 2 1/2 yards (I have leftovers)
Foam 2x6 foot piece was $29
Batting 2 yards @ 3.95/yard
Particleboard - Scrap in the garage
Staples (and staple gun)
Spray adhesive 


The foam I bought was 2 feet tall, so I made the headboard 2 feet tall.  I measured the width of the bed at 53 inches.  (This is a full size bed)  There was a piece of particleboard  in the garage and a friend helped me hold it while we cut it down to size with a jig saw.  A circular saw would have been a better choice but I couldn't find mine.  After that I was on my own, so most of this was a one person job.  


I cut the foam to size with a utility knife and it made a very rough cut.  In hind sight a serrated knife would have probably been better because you can see on the right side of the headboard it looks a little lumpy.  I thought the batting would cover it up enough, but it didn't.  You need to make sure there is a clean cut to the foam. I used spray adhesive to glue the foam to the board, then spread out the batting on a flat surface and put the foam side down on top of it.  I used a staple gun to attach the batting pulling the batting taught, but not too much.  The batting tends to pull apart, so I just pulled it taught.  It took a lot of staples.  I trimmed the edges so there wasn't a whole lot sticking out especially on the corners.  Then I ironed my material, laid it out on a flat surface, laid the foam side down on top of it and stapled it on to the board as well.  I found that if I stapled one long side first I could tilt the board up to see and pull the other side taught and make sure that my vertical lines were straight.  Then did the shorter sides holding the board up to see where there were loose spots in the material, and pulled that area a little tighter.  

It was a super simple project, and took almost no time at all!

Now I just have to figure out how to hang it on the wall or attach it to the bed.