Modern Bed Headboard Design Ideas

Your bedroom is your sanctuary and your bed is where you spend your most restful times. The headboard, often the most visible and visually imposing part of most bed designs, sets the mood for all those hours of your life.

The headboard makes the bed, and in the realm of wooden beds, there are a whole slew of design patterns and trends in headboard designs you should consider when making your choice.

Wooden Bed Headboard Designs

Upholstered and Tufted Cushion Headboards

Upholstered and cushioned bed headboards are both modern and classic. Tufted fabrics and leather, cushioned and padded boards make for both a comfortable and stylish statement.

A cushioned headboard not only makes for the most practical of back rests for sitting up in bed or reading, but it’s also a strong visual statement of a certain old world charm, a vintage modernism. Fabric tufted headboards add that cozy ambience to your sleeping space while leather add a touch of the exotic.

Raw Wooden Headboards

Raw wooden headboards are a diametric opposite of style. Their rustic and grounded presence gives a warmth to your bedroom decor.

Untreated wood and tree trunk boards are a very strong presence. They lend a old time charm and design simplicity to the space and can often be an ideal contrast to other modernistic elements in the room. Add in plenty of bed cushions and pillows to give your bed that extra inviting vibe.

Integrated Storage or Side Tables in Headboards

The perfect way to bring a bucket load of practical use to an aesthetic wooden headboard is by adding integrated storage or side tables.

Integrated wooden side tables in your headboard are the perfect platform for bed-side lamps and reading lights to add that warm glow to your bed area. These can also include small slide-out drawers for keeping easy to reach essentials, or little storage nooks for valued trinkets or to store your bedtime reading.

Cane Mesh Headboards

Solid wooden headboards can get heavy and monolithic. A cane mesh is the perfect way to add lightness and also comfort as a back rest.

If your have plenty of cushions on your bed, a cane mesh headboard can be the perfect way to keep your bed and linens well aired. Visually, it adds a early to mid 20th century charm to your decor and classes up any wooden furniture.

Contemporary Wood Joinery Headboards

Wood joinery & patterns add a lot of personality to your headboard. Wooden beds don’t need to be plain and rudimentary.

There has been a resurgence in classic woodwork techniques and fine woodcraft techniques from across the world. Complex but elegant Japanese joinery or fine wood panel patterns from Europe are in vogue. Perfect additions to insert some unique character into a solid wooden bed headboard.

Plain Wood-Slab Headboards

If the inherent beauty of the wood is more your speed, there is nothing as minimal as beautiful as a well-finished single slab of natural wood as a bed headboard.

A nice well-textured slab of teak or pine can be its very own work of art and sometimes a bed headboard is best served by the simplest of wooden board elevated by beautiful material choice. Don’t discount the classics in creating the perfect bedroom styling.

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Whatever your aesthetic taste in headboards, a wooden bed is a joy to live with, and a headboard which suits your space and personality is its crowning glory.

Check out our exclusive collection of wooden beds and comfortable modern bedroom furniture and decor at the Tranceforme store, or browse our collection online.