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Inspiration: Embroidered Wrought-Iron Headboard

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A wrought-iron headboard is a great look for a child's room, but it can be a bit hard on the young noggin. This embroidered headboard by Lydia Lee gives a great wrought-iron effect but is soft and comfortable.

 
 

Beyond wrought-iron, tons of great ideas are coming to mind to embroider a customized headboard. How about embroidered initials, or a robot, or a butterfly...?

Detailed instructions of Lydia Lee's project can be found at Design Sponge.

If this idea has inspired you, please tell us what you would embroider in the comments...

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inspiration, beds & matttresses - kids, headboard, embroidery, wrought-iron bed

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Comments (9)

Totally cute! I think it would work for children or adults.

posted by upstategirl on June 25th 2009 at 2:02pm
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um, I have a wrought iron bed and now I want to cover the headboard and embroider a headboard onto it. I love this beyond measure!

posted by doris day on June 25th 2009 at 3:31pm
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Adorable.
How about embroidering a city skyline? Or a carnival scene (ferris wheel, carousel, etc.)?

posted by pennycarnival on June 25th 2009 at 3:56pm
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as you can see from my post, i love love this bed. i also love the skyline idea. cute.
http://portlandsunshine.blogspot.com/2009/06/sweet-diy-dreams.html

posted by portlandsunshine on June 25th 2009 at 4:07pm
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Love those flowers on the wall, anyone know where I can find those??

posted by lenessajayne on June 25th 2009 at 4:16pm
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Those are Umbra Wallflowers.

posted by mslil65 on June 25th 2009 at 6:56pm
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Lovely idea: am I the only one thinking of taking this idea further and actually *painting* the iron headboard on the wall? It would be super cheap and extremely cool. I might even choose shocking pink for a girl and dark green for a boy. Great great idea!

posted by barbara.agatha on June 26th 2009 at 7:57am
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I can't wait until my daughter gets out of her crib so I can do this for her bed!

posted by Icanmakeit on June 29th 2009 at 9:15am
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LOVE!

posted by bebebloom on July 18th 2009 at 6:40am
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