cork board head board

i must admit i impressed myself on this craft. it's one of those things where you're really not sure if it's going to work out and then somehow it works out perfectly. our second bedroom used to have a monster of a desk in it. since jesse and i never intend on needing an office at home we thought it would be much more valuable as a guest room. so the monster went to the dump and we adopted a bed from jesse's family. the only thing we kept was the huge cork/bulletin board that matched the desk. miraculously, the board was the same width as the bed...so it turned into a lovely headboard. here's the story:

 the cork board

 

 the border painted white

 

i cut the fabric to fit the board with an extra inch trim which i folded over and tacked down with double sided tape. no sewing involved! (the fabric needs to be slightly larger than the board so that there is room for padding)

 

using silver push pins, i loosely tacked down the fabric in all corners

 

i slowly added quilting stuffing from one end to the other adding more push pins as i went to secure the fabric

 

presto! the whole board is packed with stuffing. some pins needed a little extra support so i also used a glue gun to keep the fabric pressed to the board...you don't want push pins falling out onto the bed!

 
this was the original fabric on the base of the bed

 

i simply covered it with strips of fabric...i glued and pinned on the fabric

 

using old hinges from a retro kitchen cupboard door, jesse mounted the headboard on the wall

 

tada!!!!! a new headboard for a new to us bed :)