Headboard of Rigid Foam Insulation

My guest room is a work in progress.  I'm going for a pale ethereal look.

I re-upholstered a head board I had done previously with pale blue ticking. OK, I was lazy and first put the new fabric over the old, dark one, then I had to take it apart and re-do because you could see the old fabric through the new.

A lot of people make headboards with plywood and foam ... I used rigid insulation.   It comes in 4x8 sheets and is extremely light. It's about 1 1/2 - 2 inches thick, so gives you the same look. You can cut to whatever size you want with a knife. Actually, the 4x8 piece would not fit in my trunk and the young man who was helping me at Home Depot said they only cut wood and couldn't help me with the size, so I took a house key to it in the Home Depot parking lot and roughly cut the piece to size, so it would fit in. You get a lot of those little foam beads flying around, but it enabled me to get it home; and I left all the cut off pieces in the HD garbage.

I covered the insulation with batting, and then upholstery using a glue gun because you obviously can't attach staples or nails into foam insulation.   Then because the back was looking a little ragged, I duct taped down all the edges so it would be smooth to hang on the wall.   WHAT? doesn't everyone use duct tape?  I wasn't bloggin at the time or I would have taken pictures!

I then attached the headboard to the wall with velcro. The foam insulation is very light so that is all the support it needs.  In fact as a bit of a disclaimer ... one thing you should know is that when I took the first headboard down to recover it, the velcro practically ripped the wall down. It was a good thing I was was going to paint anyway. I just spackled the tears, primed, painted and stuck the recovered headboard up with new velcro and good as new.

It is a great way to  make a headboard that doesn't weigh a lot, and you don't have to look for wall studs to hang it on.  Easily a one person job.