Easy Tile Headboard

Youve got your bedroom almost finished. The carpeted or hardwood floors are beautiful, youve got your coordinating drapes, throw rugs and nice lamps on beautiful end tables. Too bad the bed looks like it does. No matter how nice the quilt or duvet, no matter how many pillows you pile up for a comfy look, the bed will never be complete. Not until you put up a headboard. Dont have one? No money to get one? Make it! You dont have to have wood, nails and power tools to create a headboard. All you need is a box of tiles.

Peel-n-stick tiles are normally used on a bathroom or kitchen floor. They have a peel-away backing that exposes a sticky adhesive which makes it easy to attach them to most any flat surface. Use them to create a new headboard thats unusual yet striking when you stick the tiles to the wall.

There are several great things about sticky tiles being used for a new headboard. One is that theyre easily cut with scissors. Another is that they come in a variety of colors and styles so that youll have no trouble coordinating them with other elements in the bedroom. Choose a style that looks like brick, a marbleized type, or another. The tiles are sold at home improvement stores, but if you can find them, theyre much cheaper at a dollar-theme store. Begin sticking the tiles to the wall so that they are aligned with the bottom edge of the mattress - or lower. The tiles should go the width of the bed or even a few inches wider. You can add row after row of tiles until they reach as far up on the wall as you want. Its helpful to measure, then draw lines, to ensure the tiles are perfectly straight. Although its easy and fast to stick the tiles on the wall in a rectangular pattern you can create more interest by cutting the tiles along the top in a varied pattern. You can also do something decorative with the tiles that go down the sides of the new headboard, too. The headboard will have a more finished look if you outline the tiles. One way to do that is to have molding pieces cut at a home improvement store. Another is to use glue dots to attaching roping, leather strips or something similar. The sticky tile headboard is unusual but very pretty. If you want it to be more substantial you can have a piece of wood cut at a home improvement store, nail it to the wall, then tile over it. Even with a wood backing the tile headboard is not expensive and really easy to create.