Q&A for How to Fit a Bed Headboard

Buying a new headboard can be expensive. Luckily there is another way to renew your bed at a lower cost. Step 1: Buy a desk top/ plywood. You can find them in different sizes and colors in furniture stores. Step 2: Cut the board to the height you want your headboard to be. Step 3: Screw the new headboard directly onto the old one from behind so you can't see the screws. Option: For optimal comfort, install the board at an angle.

Either replace them with shorter screws or attach sticky felt pads to the ends as a barrier between them and the wall.

If you secure to a wall stud instead of the bed, it should be fine.

Mount it to the wall instead.

The standard is between 0 and 3 inches from either side.

Many divans have screw holes at both the head and the foot of the bed so both headboards and end boards can be added.

If the bolt has a hexagonal head, use a pair of pliers, a crescent wrench or a ratchet-driven socket wrench. If the bolt has a square head, either of the first two of those tools would work. If there's a nut at the other end of the bolt, you could use any of those tools on the nut, too.