Fabric Upholstered headboards are the best solution for your child’s room without question.  Not only are they the most cost effective, easy on the head for horsing around (you know how much kids love to jump up and down on their beds)  but are perfect for the ever changing tastes of your 5 year old. When your fire truck or princess themed room is out of style in 3 years, it is easy and cheap to change to football and psychedelic, simply by changing the fabric on your headboard.    Compared to a traditional wood headboard, upholstered headboards are much more economical.  We here it all the time that people decided on a fabric headboard since the wood headboard they had their eye on cost thousands of dollars compared to our headboards that start at a little over $200! 

When it comes to a kid’s room, a twin headboard covered in a solid duck cloth available in over 60 colors is $193!  Fabricworkroom has one of the largest selections available online to create the headboard of your choice.   They are easy to order online and so simple to install.  Many designers as well as hotels around the country are opting for the Upholstered look for the reasons above as well as the general look of comfort.  After all, that is what your bedroom should be all about.  Below we paired it with a solid duvet cover and pillows in one of our sold duck cloths, Dream Cerise with Dream White Welting.

When it comes to upholstered headboards, customers want advice on how high to order their headboard.  Our standard upholstered headboard is a total of 44″.  The leg is 18″ and the fabric headboard is 26″.  On the tall end, the leg is 18″ and the board is 40″ for a total of 58″.  So with such a range of choices, the best advice we can give is to consider the scale and symmetry of your room and bed size.

Let’s start with the twin upholstered headboard.  The scale of a twin bed is on the small side.  The headboard has to work with the bed(s) and its surroundings.  We believe that the standard height works well here.  Chances are that you will have two headboards in the room and you don’t want them to completely overpower the room.  You should consider adding a few inches if you plan to add a nice selection of pillows.

You should notch up the height on a full size upholstered headboard.  The width of the mattress warrants a taller board to balance the scale of the headboard.   You should consider the range of 44″ to 48″.  Think about the pillows you will add and the height of the ceiling.

For a queen size upholstered headboard, you should be looking at 50″ or more.  The bed is a bit more substantial, you will have pillow shams and more decorative pillows.  You want balance with all the other elements of the room.

King size upholstered headboards should go to the limit at 58″ whenever possible.  It is the latest fabric headboard design trend for good reason – it looks great!  Tall king size fabric headboards are in nearly all the high end boutique hotels.  Regarding scale, if you were able to fit a king bed in your master bedroom, chances you can easily accommodate a tall headboard.   If you love lots of pillow shams and oversized decorative pillows, you can really go crazy and not hide your beautiful new upholstered headboard.

To really get the height right, we recommend using blue painters tape on the wall where you will have the headboard.  Take the tape and outline the size of the headboard.  Step back and take look.  Move the tape to a couple of different heights.  You’ll know when it right.

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We had a call from a customer that asked if our headboards “smelled”. “Smelled” – like what? Although she didn’t want to admit, she had purchased and headboard from a large retailer whom shall remain nameless. She wants to get rid of it because it has a “musty” odor and can’t take it any more. She didn’t want to make the same mistake.

If we went to ancestry.com and looked up her headboard, we would probably find that it was born in some far away Asian country. It probably had 1,000 identical bothers and sisters. The materials were most likely stored in some hot humid warehouse. The “parents” probably worked in some sweat shop and it was made in 10 minutes. Then imagine your headboard and its siblings are stuffed into a sea container and travel the seven seas to arrive in the U.S. weeks later. Have you ever gone on a cruise and remember how nice your cabin was? That’s not what the inside of a sea container looks like. Think hot and sweaty – again. With enough heat and humidity, you can begin to create the odor from clothes left in the washer for a couple of days.

How are our fabric headboards born? First, there is no birth until you order one. The wood is stacked neatly in a fully climate controlled environment right here in the United States. When your order enters our system, the heavy duty frame is built by our craftsmen just for you according to your selected style. Then the frame moves to our upholstery department where it is covered with foam rubber wrapped in polyester fiber taken from our air conditioned storage. Next your headboard is upholstered with one of our 5,000 plus unique stocked designer fabrics all stocked in our air conditioned workroom. Your headboard may have a cousin or two, but not 1,000 identical siblings.

So here is your choice. Buy a smelly upholstered headboard using “questionable” labor from some far away place that is identical to 999 other headboards. Or get a beautiful odor free one-of-a-kind headboard made in the U.S.A. for approximately the same price.

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This year we sold a record amount of our Upholstered Headboards. We have been watching this product category grow steadily for months. We have always loved custom fabric headboards for their beauty and comfort. This year we added the option to increase the height, which is very popular with our customers,
with 70% ordering them over the standard height. We also added fabric covered buttons as well that can be covered in the main fabric or for added beauty in a contrast fabric. We have seen some incredible fabric headboard creations go out the door this year and the feedback from customers is always very positive.

We believe that much of the growth in our Upholstered Headboards is due to the unlimited possibilities in fabric. People are opting to do fabric as opposed to wood to give your room the “boutique” hotel look.
You can’t pick up a home design or decorating magazine without seeing a bedroom scene with a beautiful fabric headboard. Unlike wooden headboards, a fabric headboard can become the fabric center piece of a bedroom that coordinates with your bedding and window treatments. You can’t do that with wood headboards.

Upholstered Headboards are also very comfortable. We hear from customers all the time that they want a soft padded headboard for comfort. My husband and I switched from a wrought iron headboard to an upholstered headboard years ago and could not believe how much more comfortable it truly is.

Finally, our great pricing on our upholstered headboards has helped make this a record headboard year. Where can you get a custom made beautiful queen size upholstered headboard for under $300?

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