How can I make a headboard without nailing to the wall?

use Command strips - they easily come off the walls when you want to move.

Mine isn't nailed to the wall, as a matter of fact, I never nail headboards to the wall, but certainly a personal preference. You can make the same headboard and velcro it to the wall or use zip ties to attach to your bed frame.

Wooden fence posts....my family used the square ones, plywood upholsterd with batting and fabric...mounted from the fence posts.

Our headboard is not nailed to the wall nor fastened to the bed frame....just put the headboard between the bed frame and the wall and it will stay.

Think of your progects as boxes. The headboard as a flat rectangle box. There should be two sides or front and back. So build it about the size of a door or u can uses a door. Once done look at bed frame and most of them come with a welded on bracket with holes, round or long narrow holes. You can put legs on the bed or headboard On the back of it. The legs need to line up with brackets. The best part of a project is you might need to invest in a new tool, like a drill. I would get these bolts and nuts and maybe washers. Drill the holes to line up. Attach headboard to legs with appropriate length screws and the legs to brackts as I mentioned. this Is a little long but I hope it helps.

The deciding factor is if you set it between bed and wall and it keeps falling on you attach it. Eileen

Why must it hang? Rather attach the headboard to two pieces of narrow timber lengths each side and stand it behind the bead. Hope this helps your problem.

Put 2x4 legs on it and fasten to your bed frame. That's how we made them in my custom drapery workroom.

Use a sheet and pool noodles. Stitch up channels and slide pool noodles in...you can use the Command Strips to hold it in place. And you can either take it down to wash as needed....or change the sheet decor as you wish.

You can use a large piece of Styrofoam from the insulation part of store and cut it to size and shape you want then cover with fabric and either place behind bed or using small picture frame hanging parts attach two one at either end then use the hooks to hang like a picture since those nails are so thin. Then if you move just use a small amount of space to cover the tiny hole some people swear by white tooth paste, it just depends on what color your walls are I think. Without knowing what the other items such are I can't offer any other advice.

There are headboards you can get that screw to the base of the bed frame and with that, you completely avoid having to deal with the wall at all!

Hi Deanna, hope this helps you. You can pick up a nice peel and stick wallpaper for this, then gently remove it when you move.

https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=peel+and+stick+wallpaper&crid=GZ5KVUO7UQMS&sprefix=peel+and+stick+wallpaper%2Caps%2C167&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

You can build yourself a headboard to the height and width you wish, pad it if you want, and then upholster the side facing the bed using a 4'x6 or 8' piece of plywood. You can use 1"x3 or 4" boards for framing if you wish and simply wedge it between the bed and wall. If you want you can use zip ties to adhere to the frame or wood screwed to the frame. There's likely some instructions if you enter the words "Bed Headboard" in the search box at the top left of the site's homepage.

Buy Headboard legs from DIY (Long timbers with slot down part of it) They fix on to the end of the bed at headboard end. (there should be screw in plastic covers)

Hi Deanna: I completely agree with Eroque022810. You can even use Command Hooks to attach it to the wall.

Try the search bar at the top left here for some great headboard alternatives that aren’t heavy and can be stuck on with temporary sticky stuff.