What do you do with an old wooden headboard, some old pillows, a mattress pad, and a piece of fabric? Well, you make a padded headboard of course.
Sometimes at the end of a long day you just want to sit in bed and read a good book or watch a little TV to unwind. This is something that Anji likes to do however, she didn’t find it very comfortable sitting in bed and leaning up against the wall. She had an old wooden headboard but it really wasn’t her style. I really needed to come up with a solution to this problem without spending a lot of money. Well one day I was going through some things in my storage room and saw a bunch of pillows. My son is always on the quest for the perfect pillow so we had quite a few in the storage room that were not to his liking.☺️ It was then that I came up with a kind of crazy idea!
Well as you can see from the picture this bed was in need of a lot of help! If you can remember from my blog about Anji’s bedroom we were working with a really tight budget so I needed to get creative. I love challenges like this! So, with the pillows that I found in my storage room and a twin size mattress pad that I had (I don’t even have a twin size bed, go figure) I got to work.
As you can see from the pictures above I simply used a staple gun and stapled the pillows right on to the headboard. I then covered all of the pillows with the twin size mattress pad both to keep the pillows tightly in place and to add some additional softness.
The last step was to cover the whole thing with fabric. Luckily I found a great deal on this piece of upholstery fabric at JoAnn Fabric for about $10.00. I liked that the fabric was soft, durable, and a very neutral color so that it would go with any comforter that Anji wanted to use.
So here it is! Not too bad for $10.00 and I was also able to reuse the pillows, mattress pad, and headboard instead of them going into the landfill. Win! Win!
If you haven’t seen Anji’s full bedroom makeover make sure that you go and read that blog as well.
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