How to Use an Old Headboard in a Kitchen
- 1). Cut the fabric to size, leaving a few inches on every side to wrap around the headboard. A standard king-size headboard is 80 inches, or about 6½ feet across, and about 50 inches tall, or just over 4 feet. A 5-by-7-foot piece of fabric should be perfect.
- 2). Lay your fabric upside-down on the floor and smooth it out. Place the headboard upside-down on top of the fabric.
- 3). Grab the sides of the fabric taut and staple it to the back of the headboard, beginning in the center of the piece of fabric on all sides and working out to the edges. Pull tightly as you go to avoid bumps and creases on the front.
- 4). Turn the headboard over and make sure the front looks good. Adjust any staples that need to be tighter.
- 5). Decorate the front by adding hooks for hanging small objects such as keys and cell phones. For an adhesive hook, remove the plastic covering the sticky piece and stick on.
- 6). Cut long rectangles out of decorative paper and glue the bottom and the two sides to the board, leaving the top open, to create pockets. Use these for important papers, received mail and outgoing mail.
- 7). Nail your headboard to a wall in your kitchen into the wall studs, using a hammer and strong nails.
