Furniture Plans: Headboard for Kate

My mother-in-law had an amazing skill for woodworking.  She made such beautiful pieces of furniture.  If you look at the dresser she made when I was pregnant with my first baby, you will immediately notice the details she put into the piece.  Every drawer was dove-tailed, the trim pieces fit together perfectly; it is beautiful.  It never occurred to me that my husband could have possibly inherited the woodworking skill until I needed a headboard for my daughter's bed.

I was pregnant, about 25 weeks, with our third child.  I was nesting and trying to put together a bedroom for my girls.  I found matching bedding for Kate's bed and Hailey's crib, accessories for the room, and it was almost perfect.  Except for Kate's bed.  I absolutely hated her headboard-less bed being next to a big beautiful wood crib.  It just didn't look right.

See what I mean?  It just needed a headboard.  In my pregnant nesting mind, it was unbearable.  I found a cute headboard online and I kindly threatened my husband.  We could either build a headboard for Kate's bed, or I was going to order one.  He, out of fear of my hormones, agreed to help build one.

I looked at a lot of different headboards online and then I drew up a picture of what I wanted.  TJ did some calculations and figured out what supplies we would need.  I wish I had pictures of the progress, but I don't.  We spent the weekend building and painting the headboard.  It was a lot easier than I imagined.

It turned out exactly how I pictured!

We made the headboard so that we could easily attach it to the metal bed frame we already had for Kate's twin bed.

We drilled a whole through the 4x4 post, the used bolts to attach the frame to the headboard.  It worked perfectly.

I was so impressed with my talented husband throughout the whole process.  This was his first ever furniture/woodworking project.  We were very limited with the tools we had, yet he still made it work.  He's a perfectionist and he did everything the right way and didn't take a single shortcut.  Not only that, but he made the entire headboard off of a measly picture I drew.

The bed looked so much better next to the crib.  I love everything about how it turned out!  The best part?  All of the supplies for the headboard were less than a hundred bucks.  Can't beat that!