Bedrooms: Creative, affordable alternatives to headboards

Kya deLongchamps offers creative, affordable alternatives to a costly headboard

Celebrate vintage or fabulous fabrics by installing new upholstery to a new or old padded headboard. Preziosa collection, Rebel Knit wallpaper, inspired by the organic geometry of this 1970s luxury hotelier upholstery; €165, The Curious Department.

If you're a believer in the fascinating area of feng shui, a solid, unbroken headboard is the protective “mountain at your back” when you’re in bed. Having just completed multiple bedroom renovations, whatever your attitude to metaphysics and design, no bedroom is truly and completely coronated without a headboard. 

I’m always startled at just how pricey bog-standard, factory-made boards are to crown already screamingly expensive queens and kings if they are not integrated as part of the frame. Here are some of the ideas we threw around to get ahead of the expected standard.