Use a black iron headboard as the inspiration for a teen-friendly bedroom.
Decorating a teenager's bedroom is no easy feat. Fortunately, you can expand upon ideas that never seem to go out of style. Use the headboard as an excuse to infuse a black color palette into the room. The headboard is also the basis for zebra-inspired decor. Repurpose the vintage headboard into an artful dresser attachment. With these projects, your teen's bedroom is transformed into a chic place to relax or entertain friends. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
Zebra Patterns
1. Tie two large zebra print bows around the finials of the headboard. Tie smaller ones around the spindles, altering the placement of the bows to create a zigzag pattern across the top.
2. Zebra pattern pillows serve a practical purpose as well as add a decorative touch to the room.
Purchase a pink satin comforter in the shade of your choice. Accent the top of the bed with zebra pattern pillows and a striped neck roll pillow with pink bows tied on the ends. Purchase pink trimmed zebra print pillow shams. Tuck a zebra striped bed skirt between the box spring and mattress.
3. Lay an oversized zebra print rug on the floor. Accent the rug with a few smaller pink rugs.
4. Paint the wall behind the headboard in pink. Accent the wall with a row of six black and white photos. Use three black and three white frames to display the pictures, alternating the colors. Hang the frames from 3-inch wide bows. Hang the black frames from white bows and the white frames from black bows.
5. Paint the remaining walls in the room white. Adhere black and pink vinyl polka dot clings to the walls.
Repurposed Headboard
6. Don protective latex gloves and a paper face mask. Sand and strip a low chest of drawers with paint remover in a well-ventilated area.
7. Stain the dresser with ebony wood stain to match the black wrought iron headboard using a paint brush or rag. Allow the first coat of stain to dry overnight, and then apply a second layer.
8. Screw 2-inch by 2-inch posts vertically into the back of a low chest of drawers with a screw gun and 3-inch screws. The posts should be no more than 6 inches shorter than the dresser in order to provide optimum support. Correlate the posts with the positions in which the ends of the headboard are to be adhered. Screw the sides of the headboard into the braces with 3-inch screws.
9. Decorate the headboard for a girl by hanging photo ornaments from the top of the wrought iron headboard with brightly colored ribbons. Hang a makeup mirror in the center. Complete the dresser by wrapping green chenille stems and bright fabric daisies around the spindles.
10. Arrowheads are easily transformed into bedroom decor for a guy's room.
Adorn the headboard for guys by threading craft wire through the ribbons of award medals and hanging them prominently in the center of the headboard. Wrap the wire around the top rail of the headboard. Flank the medals with primitive arrowhead necklaces. Secure black 3-inch by 3-inch photo frames to the spindles with small link chains.
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