An upholstered headboard can create a big impact in your bedroom space – but it doesn’t have to break the bank. In fact, making your own upholstered headboard on a small budget is an affordable way to anchor the room with unique colors, textures and patterns. Paired with other room décor touches, the headboard can be as much an accessory as a statement.

Headboards you buy at stores can cost as much as several thousand dollars, or more, but you can make them for a lot cheaper by hand. Now that I’m working on my second upholstered headboard, I’ve been doing some research on more current design trends that I plan to incorporate into my latest project. Here are some tips on what to consider as you plan your own upholstered headboard:

●      Sizing the fabric. The size will determine how much fabric you need and this is where most of the …

This profile of the Piano House is part of series of features on unusual and inspirational homes that raise the question: Would You Live Here?

I don’t know who lives in this house, but I can tell you there are only two choices — the world’s happiest couple or the world’s loneliest man. That’s it. Those are the choices, because here’s how it went down:

“Oh, Emily! Emily, I love you so. I want us to be married. I want us to make beautiful music together. I want us to live in a giant house shaped like a piano.”

“Oh, Robert, yes! YES. I want to get married. I want to birth your children. I want … wait. What? What did you say about a house?”

And then Robert moves to a large cloth-covered display that Emily has somehow not noticed until this moment and whips the cover off a scale model of this …

This profile of the Nautilus House is part of series of features on unusual and inspirational homes that raise the question: Would You Live Here?

Why would anybody dwell in a shell? Let me guess — You won the lottery and left behind your old neighborhood of rundown giant clamshells for the new gated community over here in Neptuneville. No? Well, OK then Capt. Nemo, you’ve got me stumped. And maybe that’s the point, because I’m not sure how to get inside this shell-ter. Is there a secret grotto entrance somewhere? I didn’t realize I’d be needing my diving apparatus when you invited me over for barbecue.

Nautilus House lauded for its design

Call me shell-shocked, but this house has won plenty of kudos from design trend-spotters. Trendir calls it: “a wonderful, whimsical house design…bringing the life aquatic into architecture.” Over at inhabitat, the house is described as “a mind-bending union of artistic experimentation and simplified living.”  The home …