Tag Archives: Wainscot

King Size Head Board

Headboard 3.0–Everyone Needs Some Crown

I made some significant progress last night and this morning.  The last component to build is the support for the crown molding at the top of the head board.  As with my former posts on this project I started with a simple ladder frame to get the desired height.  The main purpose of all these […]

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King Size Head Board

Headboard 2.0 – The Second Tier

Last time I left off with the intermediate trim piece being mocked-up with the second tier raised panel.  Now that I decided that is how I wanted to proceed it was time to miter the trim and fasten it to the lower tier.  I used screws here to attach the trim to the sub frame […]

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Headboard 1.0 – First Tier

Construction of the headboard continues.  After getting the raised panel wainscot to size, I now could begin construction of the substructure that will hold the raised panels and give us the depth for our top shelf and side shelving.  We have long range plans of elevating our king size bed 6” +/- off the ground […]

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