Romancing the Room Upholstered Headboards & More
How to Make Upholstered Headboards
Re-create those stunning headboards seen on HGTV. For that hip hotel bedroom look, learn six easy headboard styles that you can adapt to fit adult’s to children’s décor. Some designs can be made in an hour! Susan has drawn on her experience in the professional industry, and then found an easier, quicker, and less expensive way for even the novice first-timer. Your first project will look custom made! Also learn: Duvet Covers, Pillow Shams and easiest bed skirts ever.
Teaching includes:
- How to pick out dynamite fabrics
- How to decide on size and shape
- The easiest stapling ever
- Quick mounting techniques that require no “handyman” experience
- No special tools required other than a heavy duty stapler, we’ll show you the best kind
- Great accessory tips for duvets and bed skirts
- Need extra help, use our on-line support, or telephone support, to guide you through the process
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What Susan has to say 
“I used to conduct seminars on headboards, teaching students exactly how the professional upholsters did it. The good part was that the students would save hundreds of dollars on their first project. The bad part was that cutting out the plywood or MDF board was such a miserable experience, not to mention what it was like to trying to staple into the hard surface and then mount a 30lb piece onto a wall.
Without abandoning the core principles of professional headboard construction, and without compromising the professional end result, I experimented with easier and faster ways to make headboards and less expensive and easy to acquire supplies from your local home improvement store. It now takes only a fraction of the time and effort we’d had to expend before, yet the look is still sensational.”
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A Project from Romancing the Room: Upholstered Headboards
 "It was so easy and only took half a day including gathering all the materials and making it." For the buttons, I measured the spot on the back then poked a whole from behind with something pointy (a compass is what I used I think).
Then I used a big needle my mom uses for knitting to thread some thin wire from the back, put on the button and threaded it through a different spot.
It's probably not as tight as it could be, but I don't think it being any tighter was going to make a difference in how it looked.
When I put the Velcro strips on, I stuck it on with both sides, then used lipstick to mark the back of the Velcro and pushed it against the wall to know where to stick it.
Joanie Bowes |
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To see what others have made click here for Student Projects
What others have to say . . .
“A headboard in an hour . . . who could ever believe it. No one can believe that I actually mounted it myself as well. I’m not sure if I should tell them or just enjoy the accolades!”
Linda Jackson
“I loved the ‘Slipcover’ headboard, I can change it with the seasons, and it’s so easy”
Tonia Rosenthal
“Thanks for the tips that that stapler you told us about. One press, no squeezing, and the staples were in. I think the book was worth it just for that information.
Ellen McIntosh
I had no idea that an upholstered headboard was going to cost me $600.00. I’m so glad I learned your method and got the look I wanted for just a few dollars and the cost of fabric.
Wendy Peterson
“ . . . one the best revelations was that the fabric plays such a major role in making the headboard look good. You hardly have to do a thing to it. Talk about almost instant gratification!”
Terri Gleason
“My daughter and I are going ‘headboard crazy’. What do we do when we run out of bedrooms?”
Janice (and Sandy) Harding
“I was worried that my first project would look a bit amateurish. I had found a look I liked at a local showhome and was able to copy it exactly on my first try!”
Colleen Simpson
“I have arthritis and being able to use a stapler that didn’t require squeezing was such a bonus. Thanks for that information”.
Shelley Preston |
