I saw a headboard in a Lowe’s sales magazine about five years ago and decided that it would look good in my child’s room. It was a made from picket fence sold right there in lowe’s (of course it was an add). It was fairly simple to build and finish, so here is what you are going to need. First you want to pick out the type of picket that you would like on the back of the head board (Gothic, dog ear, flat etc.) Then you are going to need 2 – 1×4s that are the length of the bed you will be putting the headboard on. The screws that you will use to fasten the pickets to the 1×4s need to be 1 1/4″ galvanized (pickets are usually Yellow wood) because you want a length that is not too long to go through the pickets and not too short so the pickets fall off.

-Measure your universal bed frame and make your two outside pickets this far apart. Attach the outside pickets to the 1×4s (cut to the width of the frame also). Take the remaining pickets and space them out evenly attach these pickets also (attach all of your pickets from behind so you wont see the screws on your finished headboard.

- Finish the headboard with 2 coats of primer, then as much paint that is necessarily to get your desired finish..

- Attach the Headboard with 4 – 1 1/2 inch bolts trough the outside pickets into the bedframe – be sure to use washers on the wood and frame side of the bolt to prevent the bolt from pulling through.

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