The Ultimate Guide to Headboard Shapes

Scooped, Inset, and Beveled Headboard Shapes

When you take a rectangle or basic arch/camelback shape and start cutting corners (in a good way), you get a headboard with a beveled corner — either a flat bevel, a scooped bevel, or an inset square bevel.

A concave chunk out of each corner gives you what we call the scooped headboard style:

via BHG

Pneumatic Addict Furniture featured on Remodelaholic

tutorial at Mama Say What

Or you can take a square section off of the corners for an inset style:

via Posh Surfside

tutorial at 4men1lady

And now we start getting to the really fun stuff… keep reading for more headboard shapes!

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

Published: July 4, 2014Filed Under: Decorate, Informative, Remodel Inspiration By Room, Upholstery Tagged: Design Inspiration, Headboard Week, Headboards

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