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I decided to make today my project day.
And I only spent 7 dollars on it! Whooo!
Out of all the rooms in our apartment our bedroom needs some TLC (besides the bathroom, but we can't do much about that one). No one ever sees it though, so it's always put on the bottom of the list. Anywho, I've been wanting to make a headboard for our bed, but just haven't gotten around to it. My friend Marilyn used an old door as a headboard, it looks great. We looked for an old door for a long time and no luck. Long story short, this is what I came up with!

You take a cheap board, the size you want (we just happened to have left overs from a different project).
Next I stapled card board on top.
Then I did another one, but I taped this one on, because the staples wouldn't go all the way through, plus no one would see it anyway.

Next, I used an old egg carton foam pad we had lying around, you could buy some padding or use batting. I had to cut mine up just right so it would fit and I had to add some "extensions" so it would wrap around correctly.

If you need to you can staple the front onto the board, wrap it around the back and staple it on. After you staple the foam on you can go back and pull the front staples out, so it doesn't show the dents.

Next you wrap and staple the fabric of your choice around it.
I found dark, brown, micro fiber fabric on clearance at JoAnn's, with an additional 50% off=$3.50 a yard! I needed two yards for this project. My board was 2 feet tall and about 5 1/2 feet wide.

Lastly, I screwed some legs on it, just using old scraps of wood.
They look flimsy, which they are, but most of the weight is on the bed and we will attach it to the wall. I used heavey duty velcro strips on the top of the board and attached them to the wall.

This was before:
(taken on a much more beautiful warm day than today)
And Ta-Da!!!!
The pictures do not do justice!
We love it and it is so comfortable to lean up against.
I love how it turned out!!!! Now I just need to add some other things to our room and it will all come together. By the time we leave probably! (Hopefully sooner!)

Here is a close up of the material.

It was super easy and cheap!
And best of all now we have a headboard!!