Simple Ikea Bed Turned Chic

Simple Ikea Bed Turned Chic
by Organized Design

Hey guys... I'm Jen from Organized Design. I love to blog about all things interior design and organizing. When I'm not busy doing the mommy thing, I enjoy creating functional finished spaces. My little girly is almost three and was in need of a big girl bed, so I took this bed...

and made it into this bed!

I am so pleased with how this bed turned out I can hardly stand it. I knew I wanted an upholstered bed for her, but wasn't finding anything I loved. They were either too boring, no style, or way out of a very descent price range. I first wanted to make the bed from scratch headboard, side rails, foot board and all, but wasn't mentally prepared for that undertaking. So I decided to take the easy way out and use a bed from Ikea. I started out by purchasing some particle board and cutting it down to the size of the headboard.

Then I decided on the shape of the headboard. From the middle I measured 7 inches across and 5 inches down.

I then attached wood pieces with wood glue around the back of the board. This is to help it be more study with added thickness. I really suggest doing this if you're going to make one, because the thickness also makes it look like I bought it from a store. 

 

Then glued and staple gunned it to the actual bed and let it sit overnight.

Then came the batting. I had to add extra inside the spaces to make it thicker so it wouldn't sink in.

Then it got a little tricky, because of all the stinking corners I couldn't just easily wrap the batting around with one piece. I had to do a layer of batting per row horizontally, then add a whole layer vertically. A big pain in the rear to get this thing to not look like my three year old did it!

In this picture I'm adding the top layer of the fabric. I have already stapled the horizontal piece, and this that I'm wrapping is the vertical. For the front of the bed I almost used two whole yards. There are so many staples in this bed it could stick to a magnetic wall, no joke!

It sits 4 feet from the ground, and is the perfect height with her mattress and added pillows.

The only thing I did to the rails were pad them and upholster them.

This is the occupant of the bed who LOVES it!

Here's the completed look with pillows and a night stand.

With a few thousand staples a little Ikea can go a long way! :)