Aimless Tangents

AKA, I finally finished the headboard that should have been done last week.  I’m thrilled with it!

Before:

After:

I have been wanting a headboard for a very long time.  However, the Hubs and I own a Versa and a Maxima.  Granted I can get a lot of stuff in my hatchback Versa but a Queen size headboard just won’t fit. 

So I started looking at plans to build one.  I found several I loved from Knock Off Wood.  I had a budget of less than $50 total for this thing, with cheaper being better.  All of the plans from Knock Off Wood were way more in parts than I was able to spend right now. 

I then decided to go dig in the pieces left behind by the previous home owners.  I found a piece of material that feels like the stuff pegboard is made out of.  I cut it down to size for our Queen bed.  Then I realized I was lucky enough that one of my Sisters In Law left an old ugly comforter in one of the storage buildings we have.  (Very lucky because foam and batting can be expensive.)

Using my electric staple gun I made a burrito.

The ends of the comforter were too long so I clipped them off with my nice, sharp shears.

     

The thing that took the longest was getting my fabric.  I was in Target last week and found a table cloth that was perfect; it had lots of texture and was a nice deep brown.  I bought the smallest rectangle and figured it would be big enough…it wasn’t.  Saturday I finally got the tablecloth exchanged for the biggest size, and then never got a chance to work on the headboard again until today.

I washed, dried, and ironed the tablecloth (after I made sure it fit!).  I then repeated the burrito making process but this time cut off the excess fabric to perhaps use it in another project later on.  The corners/ends also got folded over for a finished look rather than cut off.

I spent about $20 for the tablecloth and that was my only expense, everything else I had in my stash.  I’m very pleased with how everything turned out and like the look it gives the bedroom.  Now I just need to actually hang it on the wall with the D-hooks I’ve got!

One more look at the finished product:

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