Home Decor and DIY: 16 DIY Headboard Projects

16 DIY Headboard Projects

We’ve all got one…a bed. And we all have one thing in common about our bed…it’s the focal point of our bedroom! What’s the best way to maximize that focal point? Create a DIY headboard and give extra personality to the bedroom. You can tailor the style of the headboard to your bedroom theme, or create a storage headboard to give you tons of extra space! This is easy folks, you can do this!

Check out our first, featured project, from Samantha Elizabeth. This DIY vintage shutter headboard is so amazing. And I had to include the pic with the pup… I LOVE THIS!!!

‘AKA Design’ shows us how to make a reclaimed wood headboard, with new wood! I wanted to include this one because my oldest daughter Bree and her husband John just did one of these headboards that I will be doing a post on soon. (As soon as I can get over there with my camera! Never enough time in the day!) They did such and amazing job! In the meantime, you can make a DIY headboard like theirs. Easy, cheap, cool.

House Tweaking created this DIY love headboard, which I…love. They did something really cool in their tutorial… they shared a pic of the flush mount hangers they used to hang their headboard… I wanted to include that because these hangers could be used to hang anything as a headboard! Basic supply 101 in DIY headboard making…

More shutter headboards… we ran across this one on Pinterest and it was crazy popular… Mini lights behind the shutters give it pop!

I HAD to include this next one…this 90 year old door was made into a headboard… I would L.O.V.E. to have something like this in my home! If you can’t figure out the DIY to this project, the builders, Vintage Headboards, do sell the plans…

When it comes to DIY tufted headboards, we wanted to share our own DIY upholstered headboard project over at TBD. So there it is…. but we’re also going to stop being shameless promoters and share Apartment Therapy’s DIY tufted headboard tutorial… Love it!

The Knuths did their own version of this headboard…

‘Style Me Green’ has a good basic primer on how to build a headboard out of a door. (Might be useful for figuring out a DIY to the 90 year old door project above!)

From DIY Network this cottage style headboard is simple to make from easy to find lumber.

From ‘Averie Lane’, check out their three part series on how to build a platform bed and salvaged door headboard. I love how the more modern bed juxtapositions itself with the vintage doors!

This Old House features this shipping pallet headboard by The Rooster and the Hen… made for just $3.50 worth of nails! I think taking it to the ceiling made this project.

Find out how to build a floating headboard by Brian Hazzard… Some 3M Command strips and some easy staining work, and you have it!

From Ana White, this reclaimed wood headboard tutorial has full plans!

From ‘Sometimes on a Tuesday’, this DIY headboard project was created using styrofoam ceiling tiles, spray painted yellow, and attached to the wall with sticky adhesive squares.

Remember I promised some storage headboard options? Well try this creative idea from Lana Betty Designs on Pinterest…using old dresser drawers hung on the wall as an interesting drawer storage headboard!

And lastly, plans from the very talented Ana White, who continues to share woodworking plans anyone can do, and they are amazing. This one is her Hailey storage bed. Love!