The IKEA Headboard Hack For Charlie’s Room That Solely Took Emily One Day To Make

Right this moment I’ve a enjoyable Charlie room replace for you – a brand new, greater mattress, with a DIY IKEA no-sew headboard. This time round I’m attempting to contain the youngsters of their initiatives as a lot as bodily (and for me, mentally) doable – whereas holding it constructive. I need to do some extra DIY’s with them, however they have to be pretty primary and I do know they should truly benefit from the course of. So we got here up with one thing actually easy to make that concerned, nicely, a staple gun (the brand new set off pull model that’s admittedly very enjoyable). Tuft & Needle had reached out a couple of social partnership and I really like their mattresses (we’ve got them in the child’s bunk room on the mountain home which I truly must shoot as I by no means have). Technically Brian and I didn’t want a brand new mattress (though after laying on this one I’m very jealous, it’s extraordinarily comfy). However Charlie wanted each a correct mattress and a brand new mattress as we needed to improve his to a Queen (not as a result of he wanted one however extra as a result of his room is large enough to be a second visitor room which we’re going to want this summer time as households with a number of children can be staying right here). I do know that {couples} can technically sleep in full beds, however as an enthusiastic King mattress sleeper, I figured at the least a queen could be good to offer. Right here’s the place we final landed once we confirmed you his room just a few weeks in the past:

This room now received’t be shot for the journal (it’s simply not very shut and we’ve got so many rooms to shoot) which is okay by me as a result of I need to do a Banyan Bridges-style mural however Racheal is so busy together with her present, Artfully Designed, that she received’t be capable to assist me til fall. However so as to preserve shifting we hacked this mattress to provide him a correct headboard (and Kaitlin took house this previous body and mattress to her daughter for her massive woman mattress.)

This DIY received’t break the web (like Brady’s DIY headboard that all of us nonetheless speak about) but it surely’s a classic plaid that I really like, over a easy IKEA body that appears cute and does the job and easy sufficient that Charlie was capable of assist me with it (sorry, he helped the day earlier than Kaitlin came to visit to shoot so no photographs of him, however he’s within the reel).

We purchased this mattress from IKEA – interested in the pine sides and the way straightforward it could be to hack. Realizing we needed it taller we then added a foot with a 1x12x6 piece of lumber, secured with some straight/flat braces. We then wrapped two layers of batting utilizing a staple gun, a 9 12 months previous boys dream diy instrument.

We thought of enjoying with the form however figured as soon as we get a playful mural up on the partitions one thing extra linear was safer.

This submit isn’t sponsored by Tuft & Needle, however in case you might be available in the market that is their new mint hybrid mattress which has each springs and their patented foam know-how and is EXTREMELY comfy. I really like a softer mattress and this one is absolutely actually good.

The material is one among my quilted Japanese Boro plaids that I really like, and this one was darkish and actually pulled your eye in a great way.

There you go! It took a day of gathering stuff and a day for Gretchen and I to do – with Charlie’s staple gunning assist in fact. The mattress itself wasn’t that straightforward to place collectively however it’s SOLID.

Y’all these pups will NOT enable for a photograph shoot with out them. They comply with me round all day and I can’t not put them in photographs (which I really like as a result of it provides “life” and retains my children for probably the most half off the web :))

I nonetheless want to determine if I need to strip or paint that nightstand (and the matching chair) or go away its Seventies orange, which actually does kinda work in right here. Ideas??!!

Assets:
Window Remedies: Decorview
Carpet: Stark Carpet
Wall Colour: Further White by Sherwin-Williams
Outlet Covers: Rejuvenation

*Photographs by Kaitlin Inexperienced