We have a wrought iron bed with a headboard and foot board. I love how simple it is and do not use a bedskirt. Never had a problem making the bed and we do it every day. Also have open space in the headboard and never had a problem sitting up in bed to read. Simply prop up pillows.
For our guest bedroom, we got an old queen-size wooden headboard but nothing at the foot of the bed. The bedroom is not large and being able to sit on the foot of the bed was important. Our master is much larger. It is now down in Portland with S1, replaced by two twin beds.
H and I donât have any headboard or footboard. Makes it much easier to make beds and strip beds.
We have an OLD oak headboard and footboardâŠa Larkin Soap Company thing. Matches the small dresser and night stand. I got this set in 1973 at a used furniture place in NH, and we love it.
Mine looks like this
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-High-Back-Oak-Full-Size-Bed-Frame-/122904725268
Wooden headboard (and footboard). Like itâexcept when changing sheets, or if I bump my head on it!
@amom2girls - I was at my parentsâ helping them move to assisted living, and they didnât have enough pillows to make it comfortable. And since they were downsizing I didnât want to buy any.
For years we had nothing. The wall behind us got very dirty looking. Weâve had this one for quite a while and I still like it. https://www.ethanallen.com/en_US/shop-furniture-bedroom-beds/teagan-sleigh-bed/245630.html?dwvar_245630_finish=422?site=#start=1 It does have the same weird issue that @VeryHappy has, itâs a little longer than a mattress. I just roll up a small blanket so the mattress canât slide down to the foot of the bed.
@college_query no worriesâŠitâs all subjective. Iâm just giving my opinion on our bed. I also get really hot and I like that our headboard is not solid. It does not âreadâ as a large solid piece of furniture and blends with our eclectic bedroom furniture;)
Wood- itâs cherry and I think it would be considered mission style. I wouldnât get a fabric headboard because I can imagine them being hard to keep clean.
We have an old antique old stickly bed with footbard that is super heavy. I like it very much because it is solid and heavy although I am contemplating replacing the night stands which are more Americana and not matchy matchy for something different just to mix and fresh up the room.
recently got this for my daughter - she really likes it and it looks great - she has a tiny apartment and sits in her bed all the time (only real place to sit comfortably) https://www.crateandbarrel.com/arch-charcoal-full-bed/s652662
I happen to like metal headboards like this
This is the one I recently bought for my 27yr old D2â
Her choice.
We never got around to finding a new headboard when we switched to a king. Iâve been looking at the wayfair fabric tufted styles for a year.
When we moved the bed against the windows, we needed a headboard to keep the pillows from falling off the end. and so that from the outside, one didnât see the backside of mattress, sheets and pillows. we took a sheet of MDF, cut it to size, used the scraps to add shaker detail to sides, top and panels, finished it with a hand-mixed fake dark-cherry finish and bolted it to the metal bed frame. Cost about $30 total. Iâm pretty proud of how it looks.
Iâm looking at that Waifair bargain for our guest room.
Crate &barrel had simple, elegant headboards. You could order without the foot boards.
I have a Stickley headboard, a half sleigh if you will. I donât like foot boards. Clean lines, easy to clean. My daughterâs room is a cushion type headboard that we had stitched with her monogram. The two other rooms are a sturdy fabric. No foot boards in sight.
We have a wooden headboard with cubbies, room for books and book lights. It looks really dated, but we havenât been able to find anything else we like with book storage, and weâve been debating queen vs. king for eight years. (Weâd have to completely reconfigure the room and buy nightstands f we get a king. RIght now we have small dressers on each side serving as nightstands â we would miss that storage space.
My BIL ordered this headboard when he graduated from college (1996) and the folks who came to assemble it put a screw through the wood. He made them bring a replacement headboard, and since the furniture didnât want the original damaged headboard, they let him keep it (which is how it came to us).