Jennifer Sheahan: Choose the perfect headboard for your bedroom

The Home of the Year winner shares her top picks

Sheets by Foxford, Delia bed by Made.com in Jennifer's bedroom. Picture: Moya Nolan

I love my headboard. It's a deep, bluey-green velour headboard with a scalloped edge and it matches my bed base perfectly. But (there’s always a but isn’t there) I would change it if I were redesigning my bedroom. I would keep the same style and material, but I have recently been coveting a wide headboard that extends beyond the edges of the bed and slightly wraps around in a deeply luxurious design. 

I think part of the reason I love those wider headboards is they tend to have built-in bedside lockers or shelves, and I don’t know about you, but I personally found the search for bedside lockers a long and tedious one. While I ultimately found the perfect ones (in April and the Bear in Rathmines, unfortunately no longer stocked), the trauma remains. My room is also just a bit too small to accommodate such a structure, yet this low-level persistent longing for a new headboard remains and has got me thinking about why we have headboards at all. Where did they come from and what is their function? I discovered a whole world of different styles from the dramatic four-poster bed to making an impact with no headboard at all.