Like other furniture, upholstered, shaped headboards are still based on historical forms. A few weeks ago we checked into a New York hotel for one of our periodic visits. When I propped myself up in bed to check email on the iPad, the raised panels on the wooden headboard dug into my head and back. It took a lot of adjustment to get comfortable and I had to rearrange the … [Read more...]
The Chic of Peaked Headboards
Treatments for headboards range from painted to upholstered, but the silhouette always shapes up. Headboards have come a long way from the days of default dark-wood 4-posters, sleigh beds and frames. Architectural motifs, color, a variety of covering styles are making bed-heads into furniture statements rather than neutral go-along pieces. Many are taller and more imposing … [Read more...]
Baroque Beds
Upholstered headboards with elaborately pointed shapes evoke the Baroque historical style. I’ve been seeing what I call 'fancy shape headboards' in various styles. These are upholstered headboards with a variety of complex silhouettes. However, few new ones are downright baroque. What’s baroque? That’s highly elaborate and dramatic with mounded up shapes that twist, turn and … [Read more...]
Bedroom Backdrops
Creating a bedroom accent wall behind the bed adds a stylistic backdrop and a tone for the room. “Well, duh,” you may be thinking. Creating a bedroom accent wall wasn’t that obvious to me. When repainting my bedroom I was mainly focused on finding a fresh color without making radical changes in the headboard or bedding. But having seen so many hideous painted, patterned or … [Read more...]
