Home Decorating Insight

What Ever Happened to Headboards?

As I showed you in my last post, Brent and I are redecorating our master bedroom. Right now we’re in the throws of constructing the wainscoting but I have visions of what it will look like when we’re done and to keep me interested in the project, I have to shop.

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Recently I drug Brent with me to one of the local furniture stores to find the right headboard for our new Sleep Number bed. We’ve never had a headboard, well, with exception to the time when we had a waterbed (oh my, I was so glad when that thing left the house!), we’ve always just piled the pillows up against the wall. Well, my new vision is much more sophisticated and I want a headboard.

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The other reason I want a headboard is that putting the pillows against the wall wears it smooth and it eventually looks dirty. Yuck! At our old house when we painted our master bedroom, the paint didn’t even cover the mark, we had to use Kilz to seal it and then repaint it. I certainly don’t want to ruin my new wainscoting! We’re getting a headboard!

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Anyway, once at the furniture store we started looking for what we want. A dark wood, contempory but a little on the traditional side headboard with posters. You see, I want posters but only two, just at the top of the bed to frame any artwork I may decide to hang. Four poster beds are beautiful, but in our bedroom, I just think it will take up too much room and make the room look too small. So two posters is what I want.

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We found a lot of beds and spent a lot of time looking, then finally we came upon the style I want. However, the display was a four poster with a canope. I got to looking at the price tags hanging on the headboard and got my hopes up. It appeared from the tags that I could purchase JUST the headboard as it had a tag for just that piece. But ~ it didn’t show the separate price.

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I quickly found the sales lady that had been stelthily following us from afar and asked about purchasing JUST the headboard. To my disappointment, we couldn’t do that. “But it had a separate tag….,” I questioned. “Oh, that’s just for our inventory purposes,” she replied. With great disappointment, I asked if they had ANY separate headboards we could look at. The reply was no, they just don’t sell beds that way any longer.

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So, that day I learned that furniture manufacturers decided they wanted to make more money when they sell a bed. Now, if you want a headboard, you also must buy the footboard and side rails. And of course, if it’s a four poster bed, you an also throw in a canope. The price you’ll pay will be just over twice what a headboard alone would have cost…that is, if a headboard alone was even available.

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Until next time ~ here’s to a beautifully comfortable home.

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Reba