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Haughty Headboards With a jigsaw and a little imagination, you'll have the headboard of your dreams. From "B. Original" episode DBOR-140

Come home to a dreamy bedroom with this headboard you make yourself.

Headboards don't have to be boring rectangles that remind you where the pillows go. Sleep in style with a one-of-a-kind headboard you create yourself with this handy how-to from B. Original host Michele Beschen. You can use the same techniques to customize a pair of plain bedside tables to match your new headboard.

The sky's the limit when you let your imagination—and your jigsaw—take over. Michele's creation is a swoop of whimsical curves, but you can use any shape you want for the headboard of your dreams. If you can imagine it, you can make it.

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	Figure A
	Figure B
	Figure C
	Figure D
	Use a smaller version of your headboard on bedside tables to complete the look.

Materials:

1/2" thick MDF (medium-density fiberboard)
pencil
jigsaw
paint
wood screws (long enough to go through the MDF and into a wall stud)
batting
fabric
scissors
staple gun or heavy-duty stapler
staples
4 eyebolts
picture-hanging wire
2 picture hooks

Cut and Paint Your Headboard

• Measure the width of your bed and transfer that measurement to your MDF. This will help you keep a balanced headboard shape that isn't wider than the bed.

• Draw your headboard design onto the MDF. Don't worry if you make a mistake: Any stray marks will either be cut off or painted over. Since this is a freestanding headboard that attaches to the wall, your design doesn't need to extend to the floor—or even past the top of the mattress.

• Once you're happy with your design, cut it out with a jigsaw (figure A). Finish the cut piece by either sanding the corners or rounding them off with a router.

• Prime and paint the cut piece.

Add Upholstered Shapes

• Draw and cut out circles from either MDF or scrap plywood.

• Using the circles as a template, cut out pieces of fabric and batting about 2" larger than the circles.

• Place a thick layer of batting on top of an MDF circle, then arrange the fabric on top. When you're satisfied with how the fabric is lined up on the circle, flip the stack over so the fabric is on the bottom and the MDF circle is on top.

• Using a staple gun or heavy-duty hand stapler (figure B), staple down the fabric and batting to the back of the disc. Make sure you pull the fabric and batting as tight as you can when stapling to give the front a finished, professional look.

  Note: To keep your fabric and batting even, don't just work around the circle. Instead, work from opposite sides, pulling the fabric and batting taut every time you staple.

• Trim away the excess fabric and batting (figure C).

Hang the Headboard

To hang the headboard, screw it directly to the wall studs (figure D). Attach eyebolts and picture-hanging wire to the upholstered discs and hang them on the headboard with picture hooks.

Complete the Look

• Find a simple pair of bedside tables or end tables. Prime and paint the tables if desired.

• Measure your tables' width at the legs, and cut out a smaller version of your headboard design—the width of your table at the legs—from MDF for each table. Prime and paint as you did with the headboard.

• Cut out and upholster smaller versions of the headboard circles to go on the tables.

• Nail the main piece directly to the table legs and attach the discs the same way you did with the headboard.