{Upholstered Headboard for under $100}

I've been wanting to make a headboard ever since we bought a king size mattress and bed frame over a year ago now....so I finally did, yesterday! With the help of my friend, Mary, we created what I think would cost around $600 from Pottery Barn or places like PB.  I created a beautiful head baord for about $75 and I'm proud of it!  I love it and here are the steps I followed to make it....

Here is the before...I took away all the pillows so it actually looks more bare than it really is, but you get the idea...

Materials needed:  Plywood that fits the dimensions of your bed and the height you want, foam (that was the most expensive part, but I think that made the difference), batting, material of your choosing...the amount you buy of each thing depends on the size you are wanting to create...we have a king size bed so we did 2.5 yards of foam, a twin size bed of batting, and 3 yards of material...it was plenty!  *you will also need:  staple gun & staples, spray adhesive, some books, and a friend to help lift and slide!

Step 1:  using spray adhesive we attached the foam across the board (we did this step in the garage to keep from spraying that stuff in the house, but we are in FL so we had to have AC after the 5 min. it took to do the foam)

Step 2:  We went in and layed out the material first (and I ironed it with a steam setting on my iron) then we layed out the batting and we went ahead and kind of double layered the batting here). 

Note:  Before we started stapling we put some of my girls' books under the bottom just to make sure the head board was laying level and wouldn't tilt while we stapled)

Step 3:  We stapled the material around the foam and batting...we pulled it snug and it created kind of a square look around the edges.  We stapled across the top and down the sides. 

Steps 4&5:  The corners took some TLC so we took a little longer on them and made them look like a pleat somewhat (the pic kind of shows a close up of a corner)....step 5 I didn't take a picture of and I'm sorry, but we actually took some extra material I cut off in the beginnig and covered the bottom of both sides so that from either side you don't see plywood, but you see the same material...we just staped a square of it to each bottom corner of the plywood. 

Step6:  Slide the headboard into place! :) Magically the headboard fit exactly height-wise and I think it looks great! I'm so happy with it! 

Up close pic of the headboard :) I'm so excited!