Hello! I'm new to these forums but so glad I found them! Everyone seems to be a wealth of experience and knowledge!
I'm looking for some advise on making headboards. Instead of using particle board or MDF I will be using large Styrofoam board, the kind you get from Home Depot. (I don't tolerate MDF or particle board's well because of the glues used in them, the 'off-gasing' of the chemicals used gives me headaches). I have seen in a magazine a great example of someone using Styrofoam (as a base), upholstery batting and fabric. I think I might use foam, then upholstery batting for added cushioning. The upside is that the headboard is very light, and will cost under $75 to make! (I'm also going to put buttons on it).
My dilemma is while I can find foam boards that are wide enough for the bed (a queen) I cannot find boards that are both wide enough AND tall enough to go from the base board up to the desired height. Would it look really awful to have the headboard sticking an inch out of each side of the bed without going all the way down to the baseboards? I hope to have the board start a few inches below the mattress top.
I could normally mask this with side tables, but the new apartment I will only have one side table by the wall, and thought it might look tacky on the edge of the bed that you can see in the room. I've done a really simple picture of the room so you can see what mean (birds eye view).
What do you think?
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It is my first project planned aftt the move in on April 30! I didn't want to start it before the move because, it was all up in the air and now that it's a go, there have been so many other thigns that have trumped it, packing, furinture shopping (boyfriend is replacing a lot of his stuff). I only expect it to take a couple of hours once I get the supplies, but I will definitley post the picks!! I'm going to shop around for fabrics (for throw cushions for the chocolate couch and for the head board). Looking for a brown micro fibre as wide as I can get it...how wide is a queen bed? 62"? shouldn't be too difficult, I think double wide is 110". I think we have decided to paint the room BM Athabaska, this is his bedding (with two white pillows on front of the shams forus and a white flat sheet folded down), then I have to get a chocolate comforter for the end of his bed (I think the one from ikea will do nicely - but I couldn't find it on their site today...hope it's still available, I saw them their last week!
How goes the project? I'm very interested to see the final results!!!
Thank you for that link Kipper! I believe the brackets they use could also be used on my head board.
Indigo - yes there are different grades of styrofoam, I would be using the kind that is used as insulation boards in homes, they are thicker and denser than regular styrofoam than you would see at craft centres and are available at home depot, very inexpensively. You can use a staple gun (I have a non-electric one) for afixing the fabric to the board and I could glue screws into the board for using with wall brackets!
I was thinking that a lightweight headboard could be easily and safely attached to the wall.
Here's a link to a modular headboard company with instructions on how to hang theirs:
[url]http://www.urbiadesign.com/[/url]
Maybe you can modify this idea for the style you're making.
Hope this helps,
kipper
ok maybe I'm being really naive here but I'm a bit confused about this this project. How exactly would you attach the fabric to it and how durable would it be....is there different grades of styrofoam?
I mean ones that are as hard as a board.
Hi there..welcome aboard. Although I don't have any advice to offer.I'd just like to say that I think the idea of a styrofoam headboard is fabulous!! I can't wait to see your finished product.
:) Mel
I came across this picture at the home depot site this morning, I imagined my headboard would look something like this! No wood panel boarders as in the pic, and I would be going witha different colour.
I don't know how I would attach 2x2's to styrofoam? If it could be done I would, I think it would make it more opolished looking. Unfortunately I can't put the dressers anywhere else, they will not fit along the wall I have the bed along in the diagram and the wall with the window has electric base boards running at the bottom of it. The person sleeping on the side with the side table doesn't mind (he never used his anyway), but I would like one for symmetry, I'm trying to find narrow tables or somthing slim that is wall mounted for each side, perhaps with a wall mounted light on each side as well, but no luck yet. Wouldn't need a great deal of support capility as we tend to use them for glasses of water or a book, no major storage or drawers needed. Something like Ikea's Lack shelves but not nearly as long!
I will definitley post pictures of it when I am done. :)
supporting the headboard with 2x2's, rather than attaching it directly to the wall? As for the sides - is there no way to move the bed onto one of the other two walls in that corner, to be able to put a table on both sides? Or, can the foam be cut down narrower? Hope you'll be able to post the finished product - I love to see what others make!! Peg