Headboard Makeover
by Melly
3 Materials
I found an old waterboard headboard this summer at a yard sale and purchased it for $10.00, wait till you see what I did with it.
Here is a picture of the headboard before I started to remake it into a TV stand.
The first thing I did was sand down the entire piece. Once I had it sanded, I stained the top and the center section with the oval with American Chestnut stain.
This is how it looked after staining the top and center section.
The next step was painting the rest of the piece with a dove grey. I used Chalk paint because I wanted the aged look that chalk paint gives my projects. Once I had it painted, I waxed the entire piece with a brown wax to age it even further.
After I had the painting completed, I added barn wood slats to the back of the piece to give it that Farmhouse style that I have decorated my home with.
The final step was to add some decorative trim across the entire top and bottom of the piece to unify it and make it look more like a bookshelf than a headboard.
Here it is all loaded up with my treasures.
Here is a view of it in the room.
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I love it
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No questions. Just wanted to let you know what a nice job you done. Very nice!
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Thank you
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We still use the waterbed headboard for a headboard because it's nice to have those cabbies. Any ideas?
This looks great! Where did you get the medallion?