Most people come to us for a sofa and leave having done the bedroom too. It is the cheapest second purchase in the house: one wall, one drawing, and the room stops looking unfinished.
A headboard is a small piece of furniture with two real choices in it. Everything after that is proportion, fabric and a tape measure.
Upholstered softens a small room, hides the wall behind it, and lets you sit up against it to read. It also lets you match the sofa exactly, which is the reason most of ours are ordered together.
Timber is cooler, quieter and easier to keep clean. In a warm room with good light, a plain teak or sheesham panel does more than any fabric. We build it from the same kiln-dried stock as our frames.
Wall-fixed saves about 100 mm of floor depth, and the headboard can run wider than the bed — which is what makes a bedroom look designed rather than assembled. We supply the fixings and fit it.
Free-standing needs no drilling, travels with you when you move, and can be pushed against a window wall where you would not fix anything.
We build to your mattress, not to a standard. The only hard constraint is the gap between the top of the mattress and the ceiling — a headboard that runs too high makes a room feel short.
| Bed size | Mattress width | Headboard width | Height range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single | 0.9 m | 1.1 m | 1.1–1.3 m |
| Double | 1.4 m | 1.6 m | 1.2–1.4 m |
| Queen | 1.5 m | 1.7 m | 1.2–1.5 m |
| King | 1.8 m | 2.0 m | 1.3–1.6 m |
| Run past the bed | — | +0.3–0.6 m | 1.3–1.7 m |
Headboard widths run 100–200 mm wider than the mattress so the bed reads as part of the wall.
Order a headboard with a sofa and we cut both from the same fabric roll, in the same run. It is the difference between a room that matches and a room that nearly matches.
Headboards we have made and fitted. Tap any of them to see it larger.
Send the wall width, the mattress size and the height from floor to ceiling. We reply with a section drawing showing the gap at the top, and a price band.
