Affordable Headboard Idea: Gallery of Framed Photographs and Artwork
Create a headboard with a cluster of framed images that show your personal style.
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If you are a conformist and feel safer keeping to conventional headboard designs, you’ll be losing out on expressing your creative ideas. However, non-conformists who like the unusual and wish to reflect it in the style of their bedroom don’t follow any hard and fast rules when it comes to home décor. They get creative and save money in the process.
This unique headboard idea involves hanging a cluster of framed favourites on the wall above the bed's head. Framed art can be anything from black-and-white photographs to abstract paintings, all in varying sizes for an asymmetrical look or, if you prefer, arranged in a symmetrical order. This arrangement will not only create a focal point for the bedroom but also make the entire room look very impressive.
If you have a collection of pictures that hold fond memories of loved ones, pets, friends, or colleagues, instead of having them stashed away somewhere, soon to be forgotten, gather them together and frame them with different coloured picture frames. Use them to create a gallery to serve as a headboard.
If you don’t have such collections, use art. You will find small art images and pictures at flea or street markets.
Tips
Use sepia or black-and-white images with white or black frames for a classic vintage look.
For a more colourful and modern look, use coloured photographs in bright colourful frames.
For a dramatic look, hang as many as you desire, even up to the ceiling if you love the look.
Ensure you allow a gap between the bottom line of the photographs and the top edge of the bed to give you enough space for ample pillow arrangements.
The trick is to ensure they are all small-sized framed art in varying sizes.
