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:

square scooped corner headboard via BHG
via BHG
scooped upholstered headboard tutorial via Remodelaholic
Pneumatic Addict Furniture featured on Remodelaholic
scooped corner headboard via Mama Say What
tutorial at Mama Say What

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

square cutout inset corner headboard via Posh Surfside
via Posh Surfside
beveled inset corner headboard by Michelle Hinckley
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

The Remodelaholic Guide to Headboard Shapes -- almost 100 headboards organized by shape! #headboardweek Remodelaholic.com

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  1. 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

  2. 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.