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DIY Painted Wood Headboard

November 25, 2014 by Hearts&Sharts 13 Comments

I’ve had several DIY headboards in the last 12 months. Well, actually only three, which, according to my husband, is too many. But this is the first one I am sharing since I hated the other two. I’ll share the crappy ones some day so you can point and laugh, but today I’m gonna share the one I love. It was so super easy, too.

DIY Painted Wood Headboard | Hearts & Sharts

The whole project ended up being $99 bucks, including paint and hardware. We have a king size bed, which is six feet wide and the wood panels at HD come 8ft wide by4ft tall. We cut 2 ft off of the length so the actual headboard is 6ft x 4ft. We started by creating the frame for the headboard out of 2×4’s and connecting them using a Kreg Jig (those things are so awesome, y’all). The top rectangle is 6’x4′ and the legs were about 2 ft. To get that length, I just measured from the floor to the top of the mattress.

DIY Painted Wood Headboard | Hearts & Sharts

Then we attached the 6’x4′ board to the frame.

DIY Painted Wood Headboard | Hearts & Sharts

We could have (and should have) just stopped right there, but instead we added 1×2’s to the edges. If I had planned on staining the whole thing, the 1×2’s would have given it a more finished look, but since this was painted, we really didn’t need to add them, but… I didn’t realize that until we were done.

I traced an 8″ hexagon onto a cardboard box and used it to trace my design onto the wood and then started taping it off. The image below is actually a scrap that I was testing on to make sure this was the route that I wanted to go.

DIY Painted Wood Headboard | Hearts & Sharts

I painted it semi gloss white and then went ahead and ran my sander over it to distress it a bit.

DIY Painted Wood Headboard | Hearts & Sharts

DIY Painted Wood Headboard | Hearts & Sharts

Once the white paint was dry, I started taping off the hexagons and made one slightly off kilter to draw your eye up towards the top.

DIY Painted Wood Headboard | Hearts & Sharts

I just used small paint samples from HD as well as a small can of hickory stain. I also stained the legs to the headboard so they would match the bed and not be so obvious. On some of the hexagons I used a watered down version of the paint so some of the wood grain would show through. I didn’t sand over the hexagons. Then we pulled back the mattress a bit  and screwed the legs directly to the bed frame. If you don’t want to drill through your bed frame, you could always screw this into studs in the wall. Pre-drill.

DIY Painted Wood Headboard | Hearts & Sharts

I also redid the bedding. I made new pillows and pillow shams with flange (you can find that tutorial here). And, if you follow me on Instagram, you might have seen this pic of the death of a Target pouf.

Hey @target, with a $42 price tag, you’d think you’d be able to make your poufs with an insert for easy cleaning when your incontinent dog has an accident. Instead, its a zipper leading to a zipper leading to Styrofoam balls. Cheaply made? Bullseye. @targetdoesitagain Special thanks to @dyson and #hefty for getting this out of my life.

A photo posted by Dena Stormer (@heartsandsharts) on Sep 9, 2014 at 5:04am PDT

Y’all. This pissed me off so bad. How is there NOT AN INSERT IN THIS THING?! Ugh. Bygones.

After I got all of the little balls into two trashbags, I washed the fabric and then just made a throw pillow out of part of it. Not a total loss, but definitely a lesson learned.

DIY Painted Wood Headboard | Hearts & Sharts

The night stands are a rast hack, and the lamps were a thrift score that I shared on my to do list a couple weeks ago. I sprayed them with Rustoleum’s Rusty Metal Primer and then sprayed them with Rustoleum’s Lemongrass spray paint (for more on painting over rusted metal check this out.) Aaaaaaand then I topped them with a Target shade.

DIY Painted Wood Headboard | Hearts & Sharts

DIY Painted Wood Headboard | Hearts & Sharts

You can find the info on the pom pom pillow here.

So, that’s that. I’m pretty glad that I actually (with the help of my bald friend Bob) built this thing. And, (Hubs don’r read this part) if when I decide that we need a new headboard, this will make the perfect frame to upholster.

It’s not the typical “master retreat” you see in all those lovely bedroom images on Pinterest, but, I love it. We don’t have kids so we really don’t feel the need for a “retreat”. Maybe one day, but that’s not today.

Whaddya think?

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Comments

  1. Cassie says

    May 6, 2016 at 3:09 pm

    Eat Lightening Crap Thunder?! LOL!! How has nobody commented on that? I love that!! I am in love with your blog!!

    Reply
    • Hearts&Sharts says

      May 10, 2016 at 8:15 am

      Hhahaha! I made that for my husband, it’s a line from one of the Rocky movies that I refuse to watch. Thanks, Cassie!

      Reply
  2. Trisha D. says

    November 28, 2014 at 12:21 pm

    Such a beautiful headboard!! Come make me one :p

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    • Hearts & Sharts says

      December 1, 2014 at 2:19 pm

      Thank you, Trisha!

      Reply
  3. Amy W says

    November 26, 2014 at 11:37 pm

    I looooove this headboard, girl!!

    Reply
    • Hearts & Sharts says

      December 1, 2014 at 2:20 pm

      Aw! Thanks, Amy!

      Reply
  4. Charlotte @ Ciburbanity says

    November 25, 2014 at 5:20 pm

    Love the paint/ stain combo! Genius!

    Reply
    • Hearts & Sharts says

      November 26, 2014 at 2:23 pm

      Thank you, C!!! 🙂

      Reply
  5. Kimm at Reinvented says

    November 25, 2014 at 3:53 pm

    OMG, Dena, that is AMAZING!! I love the colors, and the combo of stained and painted wood. Strong work!! 🙂

    Reply
    • Hearts & Sharts says

      November 26, 2014 at 2:23 pm

      Thank you so much, Kimm!

      Reply
  6. Brynne@TheGatheredHome says

    November 25, 2014 at 1:22 pm

    I LOVE this so much, Dena! Those hexagons are incredible – colors, textures, everything!!!

    Reply
    • Hearts & Sharts says

      November 26, 2014 at 2:22 pm

      Thank you, Brynne! Still drooling over your black and white chairs! They look amazing!

      Reply

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  1. Evolution of a Master Bedroom | Thrifted-Eclectic | Hearts & Sharts says:
    September 6, 2016 at 3:44 pm

    […] then, my friend Bob helped me build a “real” headboard – which means it’s attached to the bed frame and not screwed into the wall/nothing. […]

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