Truck Headboard

by Robin @ Redo It Yourself Inspirations

It was time to turn boring wood furniture into something more fun and masculine for my tween. Everything in the room got a makeover.

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Including this twin headboard for his queen sized bed. (I know; it's not right.) With a small 9'x 11' bedroom and a much needed window in the way, the twin sized headboard fits best.

While reversing some bead-board paneling, and cut to fit inside the frame, I screwed it on.

Painting with primer and paint in one, in an off white, gave me a blank canvas.

That "hard-to-draw-on-canvas" showed my "rough" sketch of an old 50's truck grill well enough to paint.

(Don't pay much attention to the sloppiness. It was just a sketching to place where I had to paint and what.)

I attempted some color. Kind of poster looking, but it serves the purpose.

Then, I painted the frame and added push on/off lights and a motorcycle license plate before mounting on the wall.

http://redoityourselfinspirations.blogspot.com/2015/05/truck-headboard-with-lights.html

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Taylorlady on Jun 12, 2015
GREAT!!! What an idea!

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Maude LaFountain on Mar 15, 2016
That's awesome...Now I wish my boys weren't grown men ...I would so do this for them

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