DIY: barn wood headboard {part three: installed}

October 15, 2011

{See PART ONE of our DIY head­board here}
{See PART TWO of our DIY head­board here}

PART THREE: installed in our room!

Are we all as excited as I am?
We FINALLY have a headboard!

We love how it turned out in the end and feel like it has brought some­thing per­sonal to a much neglected bedroom.

You might notice that we have no end tables– or any­thing, really. I have never really hung a pic­ture or put any effort into our room. Sad, I know. It has been an accu­mu­la­tion of mis-matched, left­over, unfin­ished fur­ni­ture and what­ever else we don’t have a space for. But, NO LONGER. Here is where we start.

In the end, we don’t want any­thing fancy– just a sim­ple peace­ful room. Soooo, we fig­ured we would work on one thing at a time. So far, we have a head­board. And we couldn’t be happier.

I hung some pho­tos on a string of Nathan & I that make us happy. That’s about all we have so far.

For all those won­der­ing.… AWAKE MY SOUL was a last minute deci­sion to paint.…we just did it by hand before the final spray coat. It is from one of our favs: mum­ford & sons.

I guess it is spe­cial to us, though, for a more per­sonal rea­son. Even while we rest in this lovely new bed, HE is the one who awakes our soul. You can not pos­si­bly rest more sweetly know­ing there is a God that loves you that much.

how to attach a head­board to a basic metal frame

Secur­ing the head­board was pretty sim­ple. Our metal bed frame came from Sam’s Club ($27).

The frame (as with most frames) had holes to bolt a head­board– two on each side.  We had already mea­sured how far apart the legs needed to be on our head­board to fit our par­tic­u­lar frame.

We just marked with a pen­cil, drilled the holes, popped in the bolts and tight­ened them down! I think we will put an addi­tional attach­ment to the wall itself at the top of the head board– but it is very secure as it is.

All in all, a very sim­ple project. This time it took about 3 days. If we were to do it again, it would prob­a­bly only take a day– if that…but it took a lit­tle fig­ur­ing on the first try!

And HOLY MOLY, you can’t com­plain for only $8.

Cheers!

sarah

Side note: We do have a next step in our plan: night stands. Here is what one of them looks like now (I started to take the head­board shots with the unfin­ished night stands, but decided to keep it sim­ple)