Basic Flat (Rectangle) Headboards
We start with the most basic headboard shape, and the easiest to build yourself — the rectangle. You can go with the traditional square corners:
Betsy Burnham via Houzz
or round the corners a bit for a different look:
Tineke Triggs via Houzz
And lest you think that a straightforward rectangle headboard is boring… check out these options:
from the Utah Valley Home Show
from the Utah Valley Home Show
from the Utah Valley Home Show
from the Utah Valley Home Show
from the Utah Valley Home Show
from the Utah Valley Home Show
As you can see, square headboards are anything but boring! The simple shape really makes them a great canvas to go bold with the style of your room — or you can keep the headboard as a simple but smashing accent (like a perfect pair of shoes!)
Ready to get a little curvier with your headboard? Read on for arched headboards and more!
See more headboard shapes and styles on the next page –>
IN THIS POST | Guide to Headboard Shapes
page 1: introduction to sizes and styles
page 2: basic flat (rectangle) headboards
page 3: circle, arched, and camelback headboards
page 4: scooped, inset, and beveled headboards
page 5: keystone, stepped, ogee, and peaked headboards
page 6: combination ornate headboards
Hi Cassity and Justin my name is Rick and I am recently retired and I want to hold a head board and I want it to have a scalloped head board but I would like for it not to be upholstery but to have a wooden panel with a wooden molding to go across the top of the head board I also do not want this the molding to have any end grain showing at all I have some experience at
cabinet making an I did it for all living over 44 years ago I also have I fairly well stocked woodshop to work at So U would also build this piece of furinture with the use of all the different types of major pieces of equipment available to me So I will also look at building this out of 3/4 – inch Walnut plywood plywood and the molding would be made out of solid walnut So any ideas u would have about this would be greatly appreciated Oh I will also try to download a pic of a head board that I like the shape of but where the upholstering is I would have the walnut plywood there Thank you Rick
I am redecorating a bed room and have found your information on heights and widths of headboards most helpful. I am hoping you can help with some ideas with using a footboard for the headboard… My daughter has given me the footboard to her queen bed that she is no longer using. I am struggling to attach pictures, but I can share that the back edges are flat just the legs are too short. Also my email address is all lower case.