DIY Pottery Barn Nailhead cut back Headboard

Have you ever caught yourself browsing at this Ballard Designs upholstered headboard here or how nearly this Pottery Barn upholstered headboard here? But as well as hence you shout upward that thing called money? Because if I bought 1 of these... good let's exactly tell I would conduct maintain a rattling happy hubby amidst other things! So... I decided to browse Pinterest & Google for some ideas for a cheaper version of these beds for people similar us... who actually don't conduct maintain also much to spend.

If you haven't started next me on Pinterest, you tin follow me here! I dear her abode as well as she did such a peachy task amongst this headboard! Here's my version...hope you enjoy!

DISCLAIMER: This is NOT a perfect bed. So if you are going to signal out all the imperfections, exactly don't. I'm exactly happy I saved HUNDREDS of dollars yesteryear doing this myself!

Ok! Let's begin! Here's what you'll need:

-3/4 inch thick slice of Plywood. Ask Lowe's or Home Depot to cutting it to size for you. For my bed, I did a queen size which is sixty inches or v feet wide. I wanted the bed to live 4 human foot tall hence I exactly told the sales somebody that I wanted a 5'x4' cutting on my plywood. :-)

- iii 1x4's. Over at Our Vintage Home, she used 1x3's but I pick out 1x4's because I wanted my supports a fleck wider but it actually doesn't matter!

- Staple Gun

-Screws (20)

-Drill

-Clamp

-Twine (Optional)

-Measuring Tape

-Saw (Hand saw, whatever form really!)

-Fabric of your choosing (Measurements depend on your bed size)

-Nail heads (Optional)

-Scissors

-Hammer

-Pencil

-Quilt Batting (Found at your local JoAnn's or Hobby Lobby, measurements depend on your bed size)

Depending on what size bed you have, hither are the measurements for those sizes: 

I tried to snap a quick photograph of some of my major supplies. Here is the plywood I had Lowe's cutting as well as my 1x4's laying on my garage floor. Please ignore my pumpkins, domestic dog toy & ugly get-go coat on my beautiful desk. Seriously, ignore it people!

The get-go thing that I did was business upward 2 of my 1x4's on the ends of the plywood. I conduct maintain a marker pencil from Lowe's to score my ends. You tin sort of run into where I marked. I marked inwards 2 places. Where the bottom of the plywood hits the back upward boards & where I was going to cutting which is the minute line. That business represents the bottom of the legs.

My hubby decided to accept a few photos of me marker my wood. Like that novel dresser to the right? I demand to start working on her...she is going to live hence pretty as well as volition live available inwards my shop!

Ok. Now this is exactly the agency I did it but I took (6) screws for each side of the supports as well as drilled them inwards zig zag style. I recommend a drill for this portion. Make certain to business upward each 1x4 to the sides & hand & bottom of the plywood. It's unproblematic people. Just larn inwards fifty-fifty as well as clamp it!

I usage a modest clamp when I am drilling or gluing whatever pieces of forest together. This is optional but I strongly recommend it because it volition brand cutting & drilling a heck of a lot easier :-) Whenever you drill your screws into the wood, at that spot should live NO spaces where you tin run into in-between the 2 pieces. Notice inwards the below movie at that spot is no spaces in-between these 2 pieces of wood. It should live seamless equally shown. 

After you conduct maintain marked as well as drilled each side, this volition conduct you to your sawing. It doesn't thing what form of saw you usage equally long equally you tin cutting forest amongst it! Cut at the business that you drew before which volition live at whatever summit you desire your bed to sit down at. Remember, I wanted mine at 4ft equally shown.

You volition accept your lastly 1x4 as well as repeat these steps. Measure the 1x4 to gibe seamless in-between your other 2 1x4's equally shown. Cut on your lines & drill into place. This is what it should expect similar below.

This is what quilt batting looks like. I opted for something sparse because I wanted to brand certain my railhead reduce would larn through it. I exactly bought 6ft of it to ensure that I would conduct maintain plenty to run with. It left nearly half dozen inches on each side to staple to the dorsum of my headboard.

Notice inwards the movie below, I used pair of scissors to cutting ONLY to the bottom of the plywood hence I could staple this batting back. I cutting the excess on the actual leg off. It volition live covered amongst stuff later.

Here's some other movie my hubby snapped of me stapling the batting to the headboard. It doesn't conduct maintain to live perfect people! I know I expect rough, it was 9pm at nighttime :-) PS, I am using an electrical staple/nail gun. You tin uncovering it here! I constitute it on the Clearance rack that twenty-four hr stream at Lowe's for $20! I'll accept it! It makes things a TON easier when upholstering slice of furniture & also edifice furniture. I highly recommend it equally good but delight usage amongst caution because they tin live dangerous! If you're non using it, brand certain to e'er plough the on switch off exactly inwards case! :-)

Here's a photograph of my stuff because it needed ironing BAD! And my boys watching all that I do. They are hence nosey :P This is a driblet cloth for epitome also from Lowe's. But you could usage ANY stuff for this project! Endless possibilities equally I e'er say!

Here's a photograph after I started stapling my stuff on. Notice I did the same thing amongst my stuff equally I did amongst my batting. I exactly cutting it to staple it on the dorsum of my headboard. I pulled the excess stuff that is sitting on the leg over as well as stapled it to the dorsum equally well. Try to exercise this equally neatly equally perchance amongst lightly folding over edges to larn a seamless look.

Here's an updated movie amongst batting & stuff done. I was SO excited at this signal but exhausted! Be certain to live able to give a span of hours to this project! The hardest usage inwards my reckon is coming up!

I purchased all of my supplies from Lowe's or had them inwards my home. The nailheads I constitute inwards the boom section, imagine that! I wanted to brand certain I had plenty of them hence I intend I bought exactly about half dozen packs of them. Each pack contains 25 boom heads. I nonetheless conduct maintain 3.5 left over but ameliorate to live condom than sorry!

I measured 4 inches from each corner at hand as well as bottom of the headboard & marked it amongst my carpentry pencil. I lightly hammered 2 boom heads into each marker as well as wrapped my twine at each terminate hence I sort of had a "guide" similar "Our Vintage Home" did it. I must suck because mine did NOT come upward out perfect but that's ok because... I nonetheless saved HUNDREDS of dollars as well as that is hence much to a greater extent than worth it than a few nailheads non beingness perfectly fifty-fifty :-) HEHE.

I did this all exactly about the headboard. I didn't bother to exercise the bottom of the headboard because my mattress was going to comprehend it as well as the comforter. Yours belike volition to but exercise it if you would like....

Drumroll please....

Here's the terminal effect as well as I am inwards LOVE! I desire to brand a 1 chiliad one thousand of them. But nosotros exclusively conduct maintain iii bedrooms. And I experience guilty for already wanting to sweat a novel stuff :-)

So what exercise you intend of my custom headboard tutorial? I literally saved HUNDREDS of dollars as well as it feels hence good. If you didn't conduct grip of my tips before, hither are the measurements for most beds. 

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XOXO,
Ally