Headboard And Bed Options For Our Bedroom

As I’m nearing the end of the walk-in closet project (which I hope to have finished by the end of this month), I’m starting to think more about our bedroom, which I’ll be tackling next. If you’re new around here, this is what our bedroom look like right now…

This room used to be our home gym, which is why it has colorful striped walls. But it will soon be our bedroom.

To turn this into a cozy, warm, welcoming bedroom, the goal will be something like this, with teal grasscloth walls, teal velvet curtains, an upholstered headboard in this exact fabric, this multi-colored rug with orange as the dominant color, etc.

To do that mockup, I used this headboard from Ballard Designs. In the mockup, I showed it without the nailhead trim, but since I love nailhead trim on just about everything I can put it on, I would prefer it to look like this…

But I’m not necessarily sold on that particular shape. I could also do something like this one, with a more subtle curved design.

But this weekend, I took some time to look at upholstered bed options to finalize my plan for our bedroom. I’ll be making the headboard myself, and I’d like to have the plan in place by the time I get to that project so that I don’t have any delays once I’m ready to begin. And that’s when I came across this bed. I sat and stared at this bed for quite a bit of time, studying all of the details and wondering if this is something I could actually make myself. If it had squared corners, I’d have no doubt that I could make it myself. But I’m not so sure about those curved areas on the headboard and footboard.

So that got me to thinking that maybe instead of doing a fully upholstered headboard, I might prefer to do something with a wood frame around the upholstered area. It could include an upholstered section on the foot board as well, like the one above or the one below…

Or I could just keep the upholstery to the headboard and make the rest of the bed wood like this one…

Of course, the easiest option would be to keep everything square, like this one…

I know for a fact that I could make that one fairly easily because I’ve already done it before. That’s very similar to the one I made for our original bedroom in this house. It’s the same headboard that I ended up using in the guest bedroom.