Should You Buy a Gray Headboard? The Team Is Split
One of us thinks a gray headboard is the single smartest thing you can put behind a bed. Another thinks it’s what happens when someone can’t commit to a real…
The Full Headboard That Survived the Kids and the Dog
The argument was about whether a full sized headboard could survive a household with two kids under nine and a dog who treats the bed as a launch pad. One…
The Black Headboard We Almost Sent Back
The box sat unopened in the hallway for four days, which tells you most of what you need to know about how confident we felt. Black headboard, tall, a bit…
A Bed Without a Headboard: Bare but Fine?
I own four headboards right now, and not one of them is attached to a bed. There’s an iron one, curled at the top like a fern about to unfurl,…
Any Headboard, Any Bed? Not So Fast
I get called out to fit a headboard onto an existing frame somewhere between ten and fifteen times a year. That’s not a guess, I actually started keeping a rough…
Pillows Behind the Headboard: Solving the Odd Gap
Okay so real talk, I thought pillows behind a headboard was one of those things influencers do purely so the bed looks like it belongs in a boutique hotel lobby,…
Top of a Headboard: Yes or No?
My sister in law Dana walked into the guest room last spring, stopped dead in the doorway, and said, “Ben. There’s nothing up there. It looks like you’re mid eviction.”…
Headboards for a Room With Green Walls
I’ve typed “what color headboard goes with green walls” into a search bar four separate times in the last two years. Always at around eleven at night. Always right before…
Going Without a Headboard: Protecting the Wall and Finishing the Look
I told a colleague, the woman two desks over who has strong opinions about everything from her lunch order to my monitor arm setup, that I was skipping a headboard…
Comforters for a Brown Headboard
I used to think brown headboards were a design dead end. The kind of thing you inherit from a rental or buy in a hurry at a warehouse store and…