A few weeks ago my sister and I made a trip to New York to visit our friends Hart and her husband Mark. It was such a great trip! Hart and Mark just bought their house a little over a year ago and have been working really hard on it! It is an older historic home that needed a lot of drywalling done. So that has been the main focus for them since they moved in. Mark is in the Military and left for Afghanistan for a year a few days after Stac and I left. So while we were there I wanted to help them do a project that they wanted done. Hart was really excited and spoke up immediately and said she wanted a headboard! Sooooo a headboard it was!
For their headboard we did a really simple one. We used plywood, a foam mattress cover {I like to use foam eggshell mattress covers because they can be so much cheaper then foam at the craft store}, and the fabric of their choice! Hart really wanted it tufted, so we made buttons out of the same fabric.
First we measured and Mark cut the plywood to size. Then we drilled holes in the plywood where we wanted the buttons to be located. The next step was spraying the plywood with adhesive and gluing the foam to the plywood. Next we added the fabric by laying it across the front and stapling it around the back. The next step was adding the buttons. To do this we took a quilting needle and twine and threaded the button through the hole we drilled in the plywood. And lastly we made a cleat to attach the headboard to the wall. And here is our finished product:
For their headboard we did a really simple one. We used plywood, a foam mattress cover {I like to use foam eggshell mattress covers because they can be so much cheaper then foam at the craft store}, and the fabric of their choice! Hart really wanted it tufted, so we made buttons out of the same fabric.
First we measured and Mark cut the plywood to size. Then we drilled holes in the plywood where we wanted the buttons to be located. The next step was spraying the plywood with adhesive and gluing the foam to the plywood. Next we added the fabric by laying it across the front and stapling it around the back. The next step was adding the buttons. To do this we took a quilting needle and twine and threaded the button through the hole we drilled in the plywood. And lastly we made a cleat to attach the headboard to the wall. And here is our finished product:
The next step to making this room and headboard complete is new bedding that will compliment this beautiful new headboard!
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