Sunday, February 19, 2012

Another simple project for those who love DIY's!

Today Hubby mostly, what the heck he did the whole thing but I helped a little put the full size headboard together for our guestroom. It was an all too familiar project that we both did a few years back for our own king-sized bed one.
We needed a soft padded one due to me smashing my head, and not from what you might think, get your minds out of the gutter! LOL!
No, from my sometimes too clumsy movements that cause me to hit it into the wall behind it and I really didn’t want a wooden one since it would still hurt, got it?
Hubby still had a piece of plywood left in the garage that wasn’t quite as tall as ours, ours is three feet tall and that is only because Hubby is six feet tall,…Anyway, this piece of plywood was only two feet wide but seventy-six inches long and we only needed fifty-five inches and so it was a very good candidate for the job since the bed is up against the window and the light could still come in very nicely!
We also still had the spray glue in my crafts kit, all we actually bought was the microsuede fabric that we hit right with a fifty percent off sale for that and the batting, but full price for the Scotch Guard, but the total… drum roll please… was just $32.15, that fabric usually sells for $29.16 a yard, but was half price @ $14.58 and it was only a yard plus six inches, batting was half price too for $9.99 usually $19.99, but the Scotch Guard was full price @ $12.99 and the 20% mailer gave us another $7.51 off…TA DA! PS tufting also hurts the head, all those nails so we refrain from doing that but you could…here’s what we did.





See easy as pie! Round the edges of the top piece, cover with batting stuck on with spray glue, do outside or in a well ventilated area, Hubby took the car out of the garage and did it with the door up on clean, protected saw horses. That’s one of the reasons that I couldn’t help out there, he had painted the back white since it would be seen out the window and once the smell was out of the batting he brought it into the house and on our kitchen table we attached the fabric with staples and then Hubby took it out again to spray, two coats of Scotch Guard; then when done all you have to do is periodically vacuum!

On that simple project done on the cheap, since most cost hundreds if not some may be thousands, they wanted seven hundred for our king one that we did for only $70 dollars a few years ago… Allow me to be the first to wish you all a very happy good night and to ask you to count all your blessings and to share those overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

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