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DIY Woven Headboard

Head of bed with leather pillows in front of completed headboard.

Last updated August 21, 2024

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By: Sam Raimondi

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Sam is a full time psychologist with a passion for making and building things in her spare time. As a full blown weekend warrior, Sam's goal has always been to share fun and attainable woodworking, DIY, how to, and home improvement projects that can be completed with a busy work schedule!

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Create a trendy woven headboard with the help of Sam Raimondi of DIY Huntress. Follow along as she walks through the steps it takes to easily create a new headboard for your bedroom.

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Table of Contents

  1. DIY Woven Headboard

  2. Build The Headboard Frame

  3. Sand & Stain

  4. Cut Your Fabric & Attach To Frame

  5. Weave Your Fabric

  6. Install

DIY Woven Headboard

Head of bed with leather pillows in front of completed headboard.

Creating a bedroom oasis is as easy as a few custom touches, and a woven headboard is an easy bedroom upgrade that can be made in one day or less!

Build The Headboard Frame

Piece of wood being held in place and cut with saw.

The first step is to create a frame for your headboard. To find the dimensions you need, measure your bed frame width and use that measurement as your overall headboard width. (e.g., if your bed frame is 68” wide, then your headboard should be at least 68” wide). In terms of height, I chose to make my headboard 36” tall, but this measurement can be totally customized to fit your space.

Hand holding drill going into a piece of wood.

Once you have your measurements, create a frame by cutting your 2 x 2 boards to length and screwing the top and bottom frame pieces into your side pieces with pocket hole screws and glue.

Sand & Stain

Gloved hand painting stain onto piece of wood.

Once your headboard has been built, it’s time to sand and stain.

Cut Your Fabric & Attach To Frame

Leather pieced of fabric laid out vertically being stapled to piece of wood.

As the headboard dries, cut your fabric pieces into strips. I chose to use a tablecloth that looked like leather for my headboard.

Close up of pieces of fabric stapled into wood.

Once your frame has dried and your strips are cut, begin attaching the fabric to the headboard with staples from the backside of the frame. I used a spacer to make sure they were all equally spaced apart.

Weave Your Fabric

Hand holding piece of leather fabric, a part of a nearly finished woven headboard.

Next up, weave the vertical pieces of fabric in between the horizontal pieces, making sure to alternate the pattern on each row. Finish it off by stapling any excess fabric to the back of the frame.

Install

Hand drilling a hook into place with a nail.

The last step in the process is to install the headboard by hanging it on the wall with hooks on the back of the frame. Don’t forget to add those finishing touches like bedding, pillows, side tables and lighting.

Head of bed with leather pillows in front of completed headboard.

And, after one weekend of work, you have a trendy, woven headboard!

Finished headboard with stack of pillows.

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