Head Board Dillema

I've been back and forth on what to do for a headboard.

I really want a unique, DIY, headboard.

Here's the wall I'm talking about in our bedroom:

The orange/red wall.

Some ideas I've had.

- Using a room divider / screen

- Putting up a wall decal

- Mounting a large canvas print of the 

two of us from our wedding in black and white

- Making a headboard, lined with foam and fabric

I found examples of some of these choices:

These are wood squares, lined with foam and
fabric then mounted to create a headboard

Here's a small glimpse of how its made

These are just square prints alined above the bed.
( I love that retro seat/shelf at the end of the bed and
YES those are drums as side tables!)

Distressed wood planks, mounted together and painted

Using room dividers/screens for a headboard.
Really pretty.

And this is pretty much amazing. 

This is also a fabric lined headboard,
the wood panel was just cut in the shape. foam liner glued and stapled,
then the patterned fabric was laid over. 

I do apologize if the photos shown above are anyone's personal photographs, I saved many pictures into an "inspiration" folder and did not consider the sources. I retrieved these images all from Pinterest. 

I'M IN A PICKLE and I HATE pickles.

I'm trying to be thrifty and buy some used furniture on craigslist

( obviously going to check out the stuff first )

but I can't seem to judge if the love seat I have my eye on will match my patterned couch.

I know things don't have to be too matchy-matchy 

but I don't want my house to look like a thrift store gone wrong either.

Here's the pictures from the post:

I was interested in the area rug and the love seat (not the big couch)

Here's the area rug

Here's the love seat

Please take note that our kitchen and bathroom all have that shade of teal as decor.

So, here's our living room at the moment.

I was hoping that the rug would tie things together since it has

beige stripes with blue stripes.

So my idea is to place the love seat going at perpendicular 

position from the closer end of the couch in this picture. 

(so if it were placed there, you'd be looking at the back of it) 

Then to pull things together, I was thinking of putting that patterned pillow

on the teal couch to create a good balance/contrast.

MY OTHER PICKLE

So far everything in our home (furniture, frames) consists of 

black or dark wood.

I so badly want a brighter home with white or light gray accents 

and have had the thought of painting all of them.

This is the side table that Im thinking of painting a matte gray.

Here are the CONS to doing this.

1. Our kitchen table we JUST bought is black with dark wood panels for the top.

Painting this would be difficult and also I don't know if I want to paint such a new table.

2. The trim on that couch matches our side table perfectly as is.

3. I don't know if gray will offset the warm accent walls too much.

Then again, this shows how gorgeous gray and warm oranges look together.

S O U R C E

MODGE PODGE

Source: bhg.com via Stephanie on Pinterest

According to a quick research on pinterest, you can in fact modge podge a table top! And you better believe I am doing it to my coffee table.