Easiest DIY Tufted Headboard!

You Can Have a DIY Headboard Too!

For UNDER $30!!

Headboards are SO EXPENSIVE! So if you can make one for cheap, you definitely should!

What you need:

Plywood (measure your desired height and width) 

           -You can get it for under $10 at Home Depot and

          they will cut it for you. The hard part was getting

          it back to our apartment!

Fabric of Choice

          -You will want this to be slightly larger than your wood.

          -Joann's always has buy one get one 50% off or

          something similar, so it doesn't have to be a big 

          splurge! I chose velvet :)

A Mattress Pad Topper

          -Again, this is something you can get for $10 at Walmart!

Long Nails and Hammer

Staple Gun & Staples

A Little Ingenuity!

  

So what do you need to do....?

It simple!

Lay down your plywood on the floor. Be careful not to do what I did and drag the edge along your carpet if they cut using dye! (A color along the edge). It stains. But you are going to lay down your foam topper where you want it and leave a little room to wrap it over to the back. What I did was draw a line for where the top of my mattress would touch the headboard and had the topper placed there. 

Cover with your fabric so that it drapes over the back, but covers the rest of the wood on the front end. You can glue this down if you want. Tuck the fabric under the foam and staple it to the wood. Do not go through the foam.

Pull everything taught, and flip over the wood. Begin with the sides and staple the foam down; cutting off the excess.  

Leave the top untouched for a moment, and flip the wood back over. Measure the distance of your tufts. I only did 3 since my headboard was small. Mark the tufts with the point of the nail head. Take your long nails and hammer them in through both the foam and into the wood!

I covered them with a little tiny pom pom, but chances are you wouldn't really be able to tell they were there anyway.  

Then go ahead and pull the rest of the top fabric and foam over to the back, and staple. Make sure the corners look ok from the front. Cut off the excess fabric and foam. 

And voila! It took me about 2 hours total to figure out how to execute it. And I am so happy with the results!