How to make an upholstered headboard

How to make an upholstered headboard

There are many DIY headboard ideas out there and I had always wanted to make my own, especially an upholstered one. I already had an existing base for the bed so I needed to make a headboard that was separate from the base. After toying around with lots of ideas, I ended up with this headboard design that's really easy to make and customize. Here's what you'll need to make the base structure of...

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How to make an upholstered panel for a DIY headboard or banquette bench

How to make an upholstered panel for a DIY headboard or banquette bench

When I built my banquette seating for my dining room, I made an upholstered tufted wall panel for the back. I really love this project because it could also be easily modified to make a tufted headboard by making the panel larger and adding legs and it's really easy and inexpensive to do! The video below shows how I made it but I'll also outline the main steps in this post. Materials:...

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DIY Bathroom lighting fixture makeover

DIY Bathroom lighting fixture makeover

I really wish I could renovate my bathroom, but being a renter, doing a complete gut job and rebuilding from scratch wasn't a possibility. The lighting, however, was definitely something that I could upgrade without changing out the existing lighting fixture. So I came up with a plan to change out the shades and to make my fixture more energy efficient. The first thing I did was swap out the...

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Plastic cup for mess-free drilling

Plastic cup for mess-free drilling

I've shown you a tip for mess-free drilling into walls using a post-it note to catch the dust in the past, but what about when you're drilling into the ceiling? You don't want all that dust to get on the floor or worse, in your eyes. In my video Home Office Ideas, I shared a quick tip for drilling into ceilings: use a plastic cup to catch dust! This is really easy to do:  just cut a hole into...

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