DIY: Painted Canvas Headboard

Casually propped against the wall, these painted canvases act as a focal point that feels unfitted and minimal. Dusty pink softens the bedroom’s loft-like white floors and walls, while a linen-colored panel picks up the tone of the nightstand, armchair and bench.

What you’ll need: Canvases in various sizes (see step 1), three interior paint colors or two colors and white paint, paint brushes.

Step 1: Pick out three different-sized canvases taller than your bed; ours measured 40″ x 40″, 48″ x 48″ and 60″ x 30″.

Step 2: Choose three interior paint colors, or pick two colors and lighten one with white. We used a natural linen shade and a darker dusty pink for a quietly feminine note. After painting one canvas pink, we lightened the color with white paint, then painted the third canvas in the new, lighter pink.