This past Sunday hubs and I finished our first DIY project. We made a massive headboard for our bed. It has taken us almost a year to get to this point!
We bought a king size bed last November and knew we needed a headboard but never really got around to looking for one. Earlier this year I finally gave up and joined the Pinterest movement and have gotten tons of ideas for DIY projects for around the house, one I found was a headboard. I got to hunting and found one I really, really liked. I decided that was the one I was going to do, so I did like the site said and bought a shower curtain.
We got the shower curtain pattern that we both fell in love with, only thing is I realized that most shower curtains are not as wide as a king size bed, there in lies our problem. So I decided to go Pinterest hunting again because I loved the pattern I found, and easily enough I found a ton of new ideas I could use, and of course I probably picked the toughest one. It took at least 5 hours to upholster the pieces to use for the headboard. Then we had to get the wood we needed to assemble it to the bed. Getting everything straight and secure took us another couple of hours. I'm sure all of this would have been a lot simpler and stress free if we didn't have kids running around and jumping on everything while we were trying to do all of these things.
Well it is finally finished after being in the works for a couple of weeks, and a few ideas being thrown back and forth, and I have to say I am very proud of the job we did. I made it really difficult with the pattern I chose, but hey, you live and you learn. So I know that if I ever do a project like this again I will be using solid colors!
Well here is our final product! We now need a new comforter and some cute decorative pillows but I think they are worth the sacrifice...
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