{"id":20131,"date":"2013-10-01T18:26:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T23:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=20131"},"modified":"2013-10-01T18:26:48","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T23:26:48","slug":"updating-an-old-ikea-headboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/?p=20131","title":{"rendered":"Updating an Old Ikea Headboard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr. Spring had a whole Ikea bedroom set from his bachelor days, and it has come into our marriage. \u00a0Our home has three bedrooms, and we are using \u00a0two as guest rooms. \u00a0The Ikea set has been put in a guest room, and the door has basically been closed except when guests come. \u00a0I was never a fan of the set even though it does get used occasionally. \u00a0At this point we thought it was pointless to buy a new bedroom setup. So I decided to make lemonade with the lemons which meant covering the Ikea headboard with fabric.<\/h3>\n

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There she is – a matchy, matchy set that is not my style. \u00a0Now, I do have to say this worked great for Mr. Spring as a bachelor, but it was time for some updating. I decided that buying some fabric and covering the headboard will help break up the set. \u00a0 Disregard the shades which I am not a fan of either, but like I said, this door is closed most of the time.<\/h3>\n

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This set has also made the move multiple times from South Carolina to Hawaii to Maine to Georgia and now to New York. \u00a0It has some wounds from all the travels that I was also hoping to cover. \u00a0I figured out an easy way to fix it up.<\/h3>\n

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I bought a simple patterned fabric at JoAnn Fabrics. \u00a0This room is gold, and I have not repainted it since we moved in. \u00a0I thought right now let’s just work with what we have in the gold. \u00a0I thought gray would be pretty against the color. My first step was to iron out all the wrinkles. \u00a0Next, I attached the fabric to the headboard.<\/h3>\n

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I pulled the mattress away so it would be easier to attach the fabric.<\/h3>\n

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I did not go very scientific on attaching the fabric. \u00a0I went with good ole duct tape and masking tape. \u00a0I used plenty, and I will tell you the fabric is not going anywhere. \u00a0Plus, if I get tired of the pattern of the headboard, it will be easy to change. \u00a0Don’t worry! \u00a0 The mattress will cover the tape in the front of the headboard.<\/h3>\n

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Here is a close up of the corners. \u00a0Again duct tape helped make this corner secure and tight. \u00a0If you do this, it’s important to make your folds nice and neat.<\/h3>\n

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There she is – an updated look for this Ikea set. \u00a0You can also see I got rid of one of the side tables and brought in a desk that had been hanging out in the other guest room. \u00a0It makes a good side table. \u00a0I can still spiff up this room even more, but for now it is much better.<\/h3>\n

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Cheers!<\/h3>\n

Linking to Savvy Southern Style<\/a><\/p>\n

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Mr. Spring had a whole Ikea bedroom set from his bachelor days, and it has come into our marriage. \u00a0Our home has three bedrooms, and we are using \u00a0two as guest rooms. \u00a0The Ikea set has been put in a guest room, and the door has basically been closed except when guests come. \u00a0I was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20131"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20131"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20174,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20131\/revisions\/20174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the2seasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}