Design Sponge At Home Eclectic, Los Angeles

1. Make your own upholstered headboard. In the bedroom, a fabulous headboard can be all the decorative impact you need. Professionally upholstered headboards can be extremely pricey, but if you want to accomplish this look on your own, it can be done, as this one from the book by Design Sponge's Grace Bonney shows. The best part: Since the work costs less, you can afford to choose the fabric you are really pining for.

Design Sponge's crafty Grace Bonney gives Martha a run for the money. Her spectacular homemade headboard shows that choosing the right fabric makes all the difference. This was made in much the same way I made mine (plywood, staple gun, foam, batting and that stunning fabric), but with a fancier cut on the plywood. If that seems daunting just keep in mind that this would look amazing as a big rectangle too. Here's her very helpful how-to.

You can also use a special traditional fabric. Design Sponge blogger Grace Bonney helped educate the masses about traditional Mexican Otomi embroidery with her famous DIY headboard. Shop Otomi textiles

Grace Bonney's now-famous homemade Otomi headboard. This is several hundred dollars' worth of fabric, and worth every penny.

Hello, crazy cool headboard! This beauty from Design Sponge is a much more budget-friendly version of the stunning headboards at One&Only Palmilla in Cabo.

I love the shape and height of this headboard.

Plywood, foam, staple gun, batting and fabulous material