Comforters for a Blue Headboard
I was on my knees on a drop sheet in my bedroom at eleven on a Sunday morning, sanding the top rail of a headboard I’d bought off Facebook Marketplace…
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…
Beds With No Headboard: What to Put Behind Instead
I’ve slept in a bed with no headboard for going on six years now, ever since the actual headboard I owned, a sad particleboard thing from a big box store,…
Stopping a Headboard From Banging the Wall
I used to think the fix for a banging headboard was a folded up moving blanket, duct taped to the wall at exactly headboard height, because that’s what my buddy…
Picking a Headboard Color Without Overthinking It
I’m on the floor of my own bedroom, knees complaining about it, holding up four paint chips against a stack of quilts I got off a woman clearing her mother’s…
Bedding for a Black Headboard: What Looks Right on Top
I swapped the bedding on a black headboard bed for a client shoot eleven times this year. Eleven. I counted because a friend asked why I kept photographing the same…
Bedding That Works With a Cream Headboard
I count laundry days now, not because I’m precious about it but because I’ve got a spreadsheet habit left over from quoting jobs, and the number that came out of…
Bedding Ideas for a Light Gray Headboard
Light gray headboards have a reputation for being the furniture equivalent of a beige rental wall, the safe choice you make when you’ve run out of decision making energy and…
White Headboard Bedding, Plus How to Keep It Clean
I was stripping the bed on a Saturday morning, the way you do when you’ve finally noticed the pillowcases have gone a bit gray and you can’t remember the last…
Beige Headboards and the Bedding That Keeps Them From Washing Out
The woman who sold me my headboard, a linen wrapped thing in a color the tag called “oatmeal,” leaned across the showroom and said, “Beige goes with everything, you really…