Headboard for a bed - a step by step guide to independent manufacturing

Headboard made of wood upholstered looks very stylish

Want to make an original headboard, but do not know how? I'll tell you in detail and show manufacturing technology with stylish design which will be a real decoration of your bedroom. Bed with a headboard made of wood is much more expensive option without a headboard, and self-produce it, you will save considerable funds.

Attaching carved elements on the perimeter of the headboard can give a luxurious look

process of manufacturing

We parsed variant of manufacturing the soft headboard is called "four-wheel tie" or "Capito." This design is good because it can make a person with no experience of work.

Materials and tools

From the materials you need the following:

Illustration	Description
	furniture panel. Headboard for a bed made of wood has the greatest strength. But if you want you can use plywood, and, most importantly choose the material of sufficient thickness. The size and shape of the element depends on the configuration chosen by you. In our case it will be the simple rectangular version.
	Upholstery. For this purpose, you need to choose a thick cloth or leather. Suit and other options - artificial suede, velor. It is important that the material was thick and had a small figure - the head with it does not look in the best way. A piece of fabric should be 20 cm larger than the size of the furniture board, so you can fix it on the back side.
	foam rubber. The minimum thickness of 5 cm, but may be more. It all depends on whether the relief should be the head. Piece should be the same size as that of furniture board.
	sintepon. It laid over the foam and helps make the surface more attractive and relief. The price of this material is not high, but the appearance is improved markedly with him.
	buttons for furniture. They should be with an eye on the rear side. Front elements or covered with leather or fabric, or have a silver, gold or other decorative covering. To determine in advance with the arrangement of buttons to calculate the necessary amount of the purchase.
	Glue for foam. To secure the material on a wooden board, it is worth sticking. To work, you can use specific or generic formulations. Suit and liquid nails, if they have at hand.
	Thin strong cord. It will be used for attaching buttons. Better suited embodiments of nylon, they do not stretch and have a small thickness.
	Furniture suspension. With their help, the head hangs on the wall.

Tool:

• furniture stapler. Use desirable embodiment of the staple of increased thickness, standard construction fastening poorly driven into the wood panels. To work and you have enough of one package of fasteners;

Stapler must have greater penetrating power as a very solid wood panels

• Drill or screwdriver. Included with the power drill has to be 8 mm. To attach the head suspensions to need further nozzle corresponding self-tapping screws used;

Screwdriver copes well with drilling wood

• Scissors. Used for cutting syntepon and furniture fabrics;
• knife construction. With it, cut off foam. Also, the knife can cut holes in the foam, but could use a metal pipe of 10-15 mm in diameter below I will discuss this method;

Building a knife you can quickly cut a variety of materials

• jigsaws. Required if you are cutting furniture board or plywood. Especially important is the tool for cutting curly. To work, choose fabrics with fine-tooth, they provide high cutting quality;

Cutting the tree is very convenient electric jigsaw

• Hook for knitting up to 5 mm thick. With it will pull cord;

With the crochet hook, we quickly extend a cord

• Pistol for liquid nails. Needed if you apply makeup in a tube.

The working process

for the works of their own hands Instruction consists of several stages, indicated in the diagram. Below clearly shows all the important moments of the working process and recommendations for the work.

The work consists of several stages

Let us examine the process:

• Carved wood panels and foam. The shield is generally better order already in the right size, then you will not have to do this work and waste will not. As for the foam, it is cut exactly the same size as the wood base, used for building a knife with a sharp blade, which is conducted with a ruler or a wooden rail;

Foam and wooden shield must have the same size

• foam is marked. First you have to draw a horizontal line, which will be located buttons. Then they do the same distance through the label. The number and location of the step depends on your plan, there may be any number, and they can be arranged in a different order. The photo is made by marking a staggered arrangement of the buttons;
• The foam rubber are cut holes. For this taken knife with a sharp end and a narrower blade, they carefully made small diameter slot;

It is important to make the hole neat

It is possible to take a pipe diameter of 16 mm, heat it to the plate and to punch holes in the ideal padded. This method provides a perfect result.

Make the hot tube holes Easy

• Make a hole in the furniture board. To do this, first foam is applied to the ground and held marking pencil or felt-tip pen. Then taken drill or screwdriver, with a drill 8 mm and made drilling. Make sure that the holes are aligned;

Take care that when marking the foam did not move

• The surface is cleaned, it is applied adhesive. To fix the foam, it is necessary to put the glue on the wood panels. The composition of lines or dots is distributed over the entire surface, attention is directed edges. When material is pasted, make sure that the holes match, otherwise you'll have to redo the work;

The glue should be distributed over the entire surface lines or points

• Fit and padding polyester fabric. Materials are cut so that they were on the edges on all sides, then the excess is easily cut if necessary. From the bottom side and interior sintepon align with the edges and accurately fixed stapler if enough margin, it is possible to bend the edge of the rear portion of the base;

Sintepon fastened together with upholstery material using stapler

• Fabric carefully stretched and mounted on the perimeter;

It is important to evenly pull the material to avoid wrinkles and uneven pressing of the foam at the edges

• fasten buttons. For this purpose, the reverse side is inserted into the hook hole, where it acts on the outside, on the fabric breaks hole. Return button to put the cord piece 15 cm;

Monitor the distance between the buttons

• buttons are attached. For this cord is pulled from the back side and securely fixed by means of a stapler;

Buttons need to securely attach the back of the

• Upholstered Headboard is mounted on the wall. To do this, two suspension is placed on it, and the wall anchors or screws are screwed at the correct height. The element is placed quickly and can be removed just as quickly if necessary.

Headboard in a carriage upholstery style looks great in our days

Above the headboard, you can hang a mirror panels for the effective design bedroom

Output

You will learn all the nuances of the technology of manufacturing the soft headboard and get the job done easily. Videos in this article will reveal the theme even better, but if you do not understand something - ask in the comments.