$10 Headboard

It'S me April Denise and I'm back to show you how to make an inexpensive headboard I've been away for a couple of months now and it's because I've been working. I had the opportunity to travel to Florida and work on a project there with Ludacris Christopher bridges, and I was so excited to be there and I had a ball and the space came out beautiful and, of course he loved it. So I got back just in time because I'm volunteering with a shelter actually with the organization here at call room service Atlanta and it's an organization that goes around hip different shelters here in allowing Georgia with redesigning the spaces in those shelters for the families that live There mama saw a great cause and I've had a great time and I've been out all week every day and so one of the rooms that I've been working with or working on with another blogger to keep the Duncan over it home to 319 boys. I'Ve been working with her and I've also been working with Mickey MacNeil over at single bubble pop most of the designers. There are either bloggers or designers or decorators and we've all come out to hip room-service Atlanta with a great organization anyway, the long time working with with likitha. They asked me a headboard, so I said well, you know we can create one of those really inexpensively. So the headboard that I'm going to show you how to make today is actually going to cost about $ 10 and we left that number. Don'T we yes, okay, so you can actually find some of these things that to make the table um around the house seriously. What you actually need, the main ingredients is going to be some plywood some fabric and some foam now the fabric that I'm actually using this fabric that I keep and Duncan had and with some leftover fabric with a great pattern on it and we're going to use This to a real closer to real poster the hazel and then you're also going to need some phone. best waterproof tactical pants is actually a twin size memory, foam mattress top that you can buy at any store. I bought this one actually from Target and it was nine dollars and nine cents hint the ten dollars and then, of course, the plywood. Now the plywood that I'm using is actually some leftover plywood or some plywood that excellence or 25-bit. That someone was that someone was tossing out and I said hey can I have that, and they said yes, so hint $ 10 free leftover. We are using reusable items that have been used before so we're kind of getting a little eco friendly there. We love that too, and then I just want to share a couple of ideas with you. If you don't have some of these things around the house, maybe some of the things that you can look for, usually when you use the phone when you're, making a headboard or anything that needs padding, you can go out and buy them at a craft store. But this phone right here is actually a lot cheaper and it only cost ten bucks and then the foam that you find in the presses can be a little bit more expensive. So look for that and then fabric leftover fabric, you can also use straights. You can use sheets, you can use clothing, so just think creatively a think outside the box um. If you go to a thrift store, they have plenty of sheets there. You can buy them very inexpensively at Walmart and Target. You can borrow some from somebody. Maybe hey, can I have that you're gon na use it um, you know, borrow means you you're really not going to get back. Okay, so maybe I'm talking about myself so anyway, um I'm going to take these items like I say that you can find around your house to make this headboard um. If you say with me, I'm actually going to show you the outcome of the headboard in the Nicholas house. So this will give you a general idea of the room is a navy blue white and then we're going to use this pattern as the punch color. So all you need is those three items, and once you have the three items, I'm you're good to go if you're a handy person - and you always do this type of stuff all the time. Another two that you might need is going to be a staple gun or a glue gun, and I'm actually going to use a glue gun today, because I left my staple gun in Tennessee. Shame on me. I know so anyway, stick around and take a look at this actually look. Okay, so here we go. I actually have the wood and the foam and the fabric, and I have it on a flat surface. You want to take your fabric and apply it first on your flat surface, and if you have a pattern like I do, you want to actually turn it away from you. So you don't want to be able to see the fabric, and then you apply your phone once you apply your phone you're just going to add the work directly on top of it like so, and essentially once you have everything lined up you're going to start folding Over like so and once that's folded over you're, going to take your handy-dandy staple gun, which I do not have with me. I'M going to use a glue gun. But if you have a staple gun use that because it's going to be a lot easier and a lot quicker, but you would just hold it over hold your fabric over the wood like so and then just punch down, and so many different increments um. The length of the bullet right, okay, so what I want to do is I'm going to come back to you here in just a minute and show you how this turned out once I finish gluing it all down, stay tuned: okay, I'm starting directly in the middle Of the board and as you can see, I've applied a little glue and I'm just going to take my fabric and fold it over and apply it as tightly as I can to the book. I'M going to do this all the way down the mental support and I thought it directly in the middle okay. So, on the opposite side of the blue, I just blew down I'm going to take my fabric and I'm going to pull this tightly as I can to make sure that it's covering the front part of the board and then I'm just going to add some more Glue here and I'm going to glue that down as well, that way it's nice and tight okay and do this throughout the length of the board, of course, okay. So I am almost complete and I just want to show you a little trick when you get to the edge of your board and if you use a lot of fabric like I did and have a lot of fabric hanging over. What you want to do is you're going to essentially have two pieces here, so just cut this piece out, remove it like so, and then it'll give you a little piece like that, and you got to just kind of wrap it like you would. If it was a Christmas present, just pull on it really tightly and then pull it back and even staple it down or glue it there and then it'll look similar to this. So you can kind of see the little cut in there and that'll help you fold. The ends nice and neat so try that and see if that works for you and it works great for me and stay tuned, I am getting ready to reveal an upholstered headboard all righty. This is the back portion of the headboard as I have glued everything down, and I just kind of wanted to give you an idea of how it looks on the back, because I know when I'm watching a tutorial. Usually they don't show you what the back look like looks like and I usually don't have any clue if my back looks like their back. So I make you see my shadow there, but this is kind of wanting you to see the edges and then they've been completely glued down. So it's not coming up and it's nice and tight, I'm just gon na flip it up and okay. So the hair board is complete. This is the first part of the project which is the unfinished portion and as I move over, this is the completed portion. I'M going to show you the edges, like so one lap and I have it spending up, so you can see it in the vertical position and here's how it turned out in the space you