Where can i get a headboard like the one in this picture?

britc94

I am getting this bedroom set from delias but i cant find the headboard. It doesnt have to be exact but i would like white with black buttons.

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I know the picture wont download but could someone just tell me where to find a white headboard with a black trim and black and buttons, or you could look at the bed on www.delias.com then go to rooms and victorian
Thanks

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wow, that is an awesome headboard!

I've always had to re-do my bedrooms on a tight budget...you could totally make that headboard!

Get a piece of plywood and measure it and have it cut to fit behind your bed, you can make it really tall if you want and go really dramatic!

Measure out every 8 inches or so and mark an X with a sharpie. Where you've made X's, drill a hole through the plywood with a drill. I would use a 1/4 inch drill bit. (you only need to do holes on the part that will stick up behind your bed.)

Spray the front of the plywood with adhesive and put a piece of foam about 2 inches thick on the wood. Then lay down a big piece of white fabric (you can use vinyl or leather if you have the budget for it, but I would get a shiny satin, or something really cheap like a white painters dropcloth). Lay the plywood foam side down on the fabric and pull the edges around and staple gun all the way around the back of the plywood. Stand the wood up on it's edge and with a long sharp needle go through every hole that you drilled and attatch a big black button (you can get those at any craft shop) you do it just like your sewing a button on a piece of fabric, just go through the hole, foam, button, and then come back through the hole again. You have to put something on the back of each hole that you can tie knot around to keep the thread from going back into the foam (like a pencil or something...it will have to stay there forever, so you would need a hole pack of pencils!). So tie the knot around the pencils to keep the button on tight (that will create a pull in the fabric and make it look tufted!)

When you are done with each button, you can either leave the edges with the white fabric on them, or you can paint some trim black and just stick it all arond the edges with a nail gun. Then just put the wood up behind your bed...it's really easy!

If you hate that idea, here are some websites with white tufted headboads!
http://www.shopping.com/-white+leather+tufted+headboard

Mixing pine wood and black painted bedroom furniture?

lattemom

Does anyone have a photo of a bedroom set where the dresser/nightstand is pine and the headboard is painted black?

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If you have a black headboard then you might want to add some black highlights to the dresser and nightstands to blend them together...paint the body of the dresser and nightstands black leaving the drawer fronts and tops the natural pine and add some great black iron hardware. It will look great with the headboard.

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Do you think one nightstand would look akward?

Q. I'm planning on buying a new bedroom set: headboard/footboard, armoire, and I'm thinking about just one nightstand. Would that look weird, especially considering I'm not doing the usual dresser/mirror thing? What should I do to offset it; place the bed closer to the wall? Replace it with something else? I only have 2 walls to work with because there's a large window and the other is the entryway/ closet. Here's what I'm buying if it helps http://city-furniture.com/ (dark wood)
Ok woops that link doesn't take you straight there, it's actually the 2nd bedroom set once you click under "Bedrooms" on the left side.

A. I don't think it would look bad. I'd think of messing around with the furniture placement.

You certainly don't want to clutter the room and OVERfurniturize. Especially since you only have two walls to really work with.

Think of wall accents to draw your eye upward. If you go with only furniture to accent the room, you end up looking down most of the time. An even balance of furniture is almost as important as the rest of the decor, e.g. drapes, sconces, wall hangings.

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Q. Recently I bought a bedroom set and it came with a headboard. The headboard supports a queen size bed. I had a full-size bed. If I find a good bed frame how can I know if it will attach? I guess they all come with something for connecting the frame to the headboard? I did find a bed frame at Wallmart but it it says it doesn't require the box spring. So, maybe it will be too high to connect onto the headboard.
Thanks in advance for the help,
Bruce

A. You have to match the frame to the headboard. If you have a queen-sized headboard and a full-sized bed frame, the headboard will be too big. If you want to use it anyway, you will have to make some adapter brackets.

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