Home Interior: How To Make an Upholstered Headboard With a Drop Cloth

This yesteryear weekend I decided to brand a novel headboard out of a dropcloth I picked upward at the hardware store.

I genuinely dear the agency it turned out, as well as for nigh $10 worth of dropcloth, it's a swell solution until nosotros tin forcefulness out upgrade to a manful mortal monarch bed.

I got the stance to purpose the dropcloth on our headboard afterward doing this project before this month.

You retrieve from my previous master sleeping accommodation posts, I already had a homemade upholstered headboard.

While I loved my outset version, I wanted attempt out attempt out a unlike shape. So, I enlisted Jesse to cutting it downwards to size for me.

Here's the shape of the template I cutting out of some posterboard as well as hence traced onto the plywood. (I forgot to capture a film of this step, hence deport amongst my lamentable petty drawing!) I only traced it i one one-half of the plywood, as well as hence flipped it over to the other side hence the headboard would travel symmetrical.

Now that yous direct hold your plywood inwards the shape yous desire your headboard to be, (You tin forcefulness out create whatever shape yous desire inwards this step. I kept it uncomplicated for Jesse's sake. Don't seize amongst teeth the mitt that is willing to aid yous amongst your headboard.) the adjacent stride is adding the foam as well as batting.

I attached some foam padding as well as one-time pillow foam (only because I ran out of foam as well as am super cheap.) using some spray adhesive.

Many tutorials I've seen tell to cutting the foam inwards the same shape equally the headboard, but I genuinely chose to wrap the foam over the exceed as well as sides as well as staple it to the dorsum before I added the batting. I'm glad I did too. I did it the other agency on my outset endeavor at a DIY headboard as well as this i looked hence much better! Wrapping the foam unopen to the edges gives it a much comfier as well as to a greater extent than finished look.

The inwards a higher identify film is afterward I already had the batting on, but yous tin forcefulness out run across how the foam is wrapped over the exceed as well as stapled on the back.

After I had my foam inwards identify on the plywood, I wrapped the batting unopen to the entire thing, pulled it equally tight equally possible, as well as stapled it unopen to the back. The batting holds everything downwards as well as smoothes it out to laissez passer on it an fifty-fifty shape. Batting is fairly inexpensive as well as tin forcefulness out travel establish at most textile stores unremarkably for nigh $7-$10/yard.

Here is a film of the headboard i time the foam as well as batting is on. Since I ran out of foam as well as had to fill upward inwards some spots amongst pillow stuffing, the batting was really important, equally it did a swell task of securing everything inwards place. Hopefully, when yous brand your ain headboard, you'll direct hold plenty foam. Plus, that bottom business office goes dorsum behind the mattress, hence no i would run across it anyways.

Now that everything is inwards identify as well as ready to travel upholstered, it's fourth dimension to select inwards the drib cloth! I chose a drib cloth for my upholstery textile because it's basically a thick, durable cotton wool canvass as well as it was the perfect color. And it was $10 for nearly v yards.

I cutting the drib cloth stuff to size as well as wrapped it unopen to the entire headboard, stapling inwards the back. Since my headboard is hanging on the wall amongst D-rings, I wasn't likewise worried nigh how the dorsum would look.

Basically yous precisely desire to draw equally tightly equally possible as well as cheque the other side every hence oftentimes to brand certain everything is fifty-fifty as well as beingness pulled smooth. I position a petty to a greater extent than attention into the edges. Folding them over similar the below film seemed to function best.

Now that the upholstery business office of the headboard is done, it's fourth dimension to affix the nailhead trim. And here's a petty clandestine I've figured out. You tin forcefulness out purchase nailhead trim back yesteryear the yard. The nailheads come upward inwards an attached strip, as well as yous exclusively direct hold to hammer inwards every 5th hole. It's hence much easier than hammering inwards a 1000000 private nails, as well as it keeps them all inwards a direct line. I know many people prefer the await of private nailheads, but for me this was such a timesaver!

I was able to purchase nailhead trim back yesteryear the yard genuinely inexpensive on eBay. I've also seen it at arts and crafts stores, but for a higher price.

Oh, as well as if you're wondering nigh the sock....I couldn't uncovering my mallet as well as since I didn't desire to scratch my newly spray painted nailheads, hence I position a sock on my hammer.

I realize how ridiculous that is.

So, that's it! My DIY dropcloth upholstered headboard...so slowly as well as inexpensive! And it looks swell inwards our bedroom.
(For a skillful laugh, yous should run across all the decorating mistakes I've made inwards this room inwards the yesteryear few years here.)