DIY Slipcovered Headboard

You've never seen our guest rooms. There's a reason for that: they're about as exciting as a root canal. We have two extra bedrooms upstairs, and they've been wholeheartedly ignored, collecting the castoffs from the master bedroom as we've made that our priority.

After my sister-in-law and I made the Burlap Upholstered Headboard with nailhead trim in January, the four poster bed went to the bigger guest room to act as a bed frame for the mattress that was on the floor in there. It was a temporary solution - one that was much too big for a not very big room.



After buying our king mattress, the mattress company sent us a coupon for accessories. So I marched over to the store this week, coupon in hand, and brought home a full sized bed frame for $9. Then my mom and I disassembled the four poster and brought up the wicker headboard that was in my room for about a year as a kid.

But I wasn't feeling the wicker. It was screaming 1989 more than 2009. So I bought four yards of classic ticking stripe fabric, some natural colored muslin, and whipped up a slipcover for the wicker.

I love ticking and I love this solution for the guest room. Please excuse the wrinkles, I don't iron things that people flop on.

So, what do you think? Now I have to tackle the rest of the room - beginning with window treatments for that awkward square window. Any awkward window solutions out there?