Make Your Own Fabric Headboard With Buttons

Push the shell down and attach the button back.

Make your own fabric headboard with buttons.

Place the piece of fabric on top of the kit s mold then place your button shell on the fabric directly above the mold. All you need is some plywood your fabric of choice and some rather large buttons to match. Poke the wire through your batting and when it comes through the front of the headboard secure your button. You can create your own one of a kind headboard whether you have carpentry skills or just like to dabble in simple craft projects.

Learn how to make a fabric headboard with tufting for a really high end look. To cover buttons use the kit s template to trace a circle onto a piece of scrap headboard fabric. You can doubly secure your buttons by stapling the wire or thread you use into the board. Don t let the name scare you.

Fold the excess fabric all inside the button shell as flat and squished in there as possible and add a dab of your gorilla glue. Just be sure you knot it well and many times so it won t unravel or loosen over time. Wall art room dividers fabric wall hangings and even a wall decal can create the look of a headboard with no carpentry skills required. This diy upholstered headboard uses pegboard to make the spacing of your tufted buttons really easy and doesn t require any sewing.

Make your own diy mosaic house number. It s unique and really easy to make. How to make your own deep buttoned headboard. Some diy headboards aren t boards at all.

I apologize for some of the crappy blurry pictures. Construct a frame for your diy headboard using the chipboard and battens offsetting the battens by 200mm from the sides and top of the chipboard. To map out where the buttons will go draw a grid by dividing the width of the chipboard into equal sections. Repeat until the button is securely pressed into your fabric and the fabric creases just so.

This video how to make an upholstered headboard with buttons will demons. Use a button kit to cover buttons with headboard fabric. Then on the inside part of your shank button back apply a generous but not insane amount of gorilla glue to make sure this thing isn t going anywhere. This smooth twine unravels easily but it is the best for pulling through the foam and fabric.

Details the steps required to cover a wood headboard panel with batting and fabric.