Vintage Iron Headboard {or two}

The last {and only} time I showed my master bedroom on the blog, it looked like this. 

Last winter, I was adding some reds to my master bedroom to warm up the feel of the room a bit. You can see that post here.


Things have changed quite a bit in this room since then. The electric fireplace has been downstairs in the living room for some time now.

And the big four-poster bed is gone. Unfortunately {or fortunately} I needed to sell some things to make ends meet this past summer, and the bed was one of the things that had to go. 

This area has been a bit in 'limbo' for awhile. But this week as I was photographing a paper wreath for the shop, I suddenly thought I would go ahead and share the oddity that is my current headboard. 

Sort of interesting, huh? 

When the big wooden bed went away, I was left with the queen size mattress and box spring with no queen size bed frame. I turned a smaller metal bed frame sideways and rested the box spring and mattress on it. 

At some point several months ago, I decided to try to make some sort of a headboard out of salvage pieces I had around the house. 

What I ended up putting together was some old chippy table legs with a vintage iron footboard that my oldest daughter and I picked up curbside many years ago. 

I put the table legs up against the wall and set the iron footboard legs on top of table legs. I could have attached them together.

But I didn't. 



With the weight of the footboard resting on the table legs, I attached the iron piece to the wall using several long screws basically pinning it to wall in strategic ('cause I'm so "strategic", ha!) places. 
The table legs weren't going anywhere. I pushed the queen mattress set up against them, and decided to live with it for awhile. 

Then, a couple of weeks ago I switched out (actually gave away) the queen mattress set. In its place now, a smaller full-size vintage iron bed that I've had for many years. My oldest daughter had used it in the basement before she got married a couple of years ago. 

So the full-size iron bed got set up in front of the makeshift footboard/headboard. 

And I don't know if it's just that I've been too lazy to take down the first one, or if I'm starting to like it.....

But it's still there! 

 {Vintage sheet music and dictionary page heart available here}

Had I actually been planning this post, I could have done a better job of straightening the bedspread. We're among friends, right? I didn't feel like fixing it and retaking photos. 

So there you have it, my cool and quirky (or weird and lazy) two headboard bed. 

Carry on : )


Jeanette


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