Upholstered Headboard Ideas | Interior Design Inspiration

These beautiful upholstered headboard ideas will prove that your bedhead can be the focal point of the room. It’s the perfect place to start when styling a bedroom. The humble headboard is often overlooked in favour of other furniture, curtains and soft furnishings. However, it is the ideal canvas on which to exhibit your favourite patterned or plain fabric. Here are the best beautifully upholstered headboards to inspire your bedroom interior design...

Popular Headboard Shapes...

Square-Corner Headboards

A headboard style with squared corners is an instant classic. Simple and elegant, this no-fuss shape allows the fabric to do the talking. Ideal for those looking to mix patterns into their scheme, or working with matching fabrics and wallpapers.

Rounded-Corner Headboards

Taking the edge off the corners with a rounded effect creates a more casual look. This is ideal for cottages, coastal interiors and kids' rooms.

Using natural fibres with rustic textures continues the comfy feel. Neutrals work wonderfully to provide a timeless base for your room.

All these elements work well with traditional patterns. This can also include floral fabric, stripes or checks.

Children's rooms can benefit from bolder hues and bigger designs while children's fabrics can even be educational.

Mix any of these prints with a sprinkling of strong plains to complete the interior design schemes. Then simply kick back and relax.

Cutaway-Corner Headboards

Another classic look is cutaway corners as the shape imitates the original sloping woodwork featured on bygone headboards. It's also a simple alternative to the aforementioned shapes and breaks up the box-shape of a bed.

Leaning in to this vintage style of upholstered headboards can work wonders on an interior. It will draw the eye and set the tone for the rest of the room.

Small-print fabric – whether polka dots, flowers or art deco geometrics – make for a lovely bedhead. Having these patterns in retro colours, such as mint or pastel pink, makes for an even lovelier throwback.

Then tie the room together with neutrals and other pastels. This can be on lampshades, paint or upholstery.

Classic Serpentine Headboards

This classic style can look at home in both traditional as well as more contemporary interiors. Varying in degree of sculptured shape, a serpentine headboard can be made more exaggerated or less defined, depending on the size of your bedroom.

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Shaped Headboards

The most elaborate upholstered headboards are shaped. They are ideally suited to an all-out interior design. Maximalist room decor and eclectic styling is about taking an idea, a colour scheme, a period, or even a print, and running with it.

Arc Headboards

In the same way as a classic serpentine, an arc headboard can be more or less defined. The simple shape, however, works wonderfully in any interior. Its versatility is timeless and lends to both small designs and larger patterns as it has a broad canvas. Painterly effects and abstract fabrics particularly shine on these pieces.

Most Popular Headboard Fabric Designs...

Statement-Print-Fabric Headboards

Headboards are the perfect opportunity to showcase your favourite statement print or large-scale design. Paired with fresh paintwork and sat behind crisp bedding and complementary cushions, it will completely transform the feel of your bedroom.

Floral-Fabric Headboards

Timeless and elegant, floral fabrics never go out of fashion. From classic, traditional prints to bold colourful blooms, a floral design will inject colour and movement into your scheme. With such a broad selection of motifs to choose from, including British blossoms to tropical florals, we are confident you won't regret creating a floral headboard for your bedroom.

Geometric-Print-Fabric Headboards

These boxy shapes showcase just how great a modern geometric print looks on a headboard. The clean lines and angular shapes work wonderfully to create a dynamic finish that can either be punchy or subtle, depending on the pattern. The perfect canvas for experimenting with different scales across your scheme, a geometric headboard adds movement, texture and fun into your design.

Striped-Fabric Headboards

From classical regency designs to more modern, experimental lines, our collection of striped fabrics has designs in all scales, colours and sizes. One of our most popular patterns due to their versatility, most striped designs do not have a pattern repeat, so can be aligned easily as well as mixed and matched. Also frequently available in wider widths, these make them ideal as you can often avoid having any joins, allowing the design to flow seamlessly across your headboard.

Headboard Finishes

There are lots of ways to elevate the design of your upholstered headboard. Button-backs are one of the most popular, especially on a tufted headboard. This is when diamonds are created using the fabric as it is stretched across the board.

Another option is to add trimmings, such as fringes, pom-poms and contrast piping. They provide a splash of quirkiness and balance large designs. Needless to say, there is plenty of room for experimentation and self-expression, and our bespoke headboards team are happy to help you find the perfect embellishment.

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