What makes for the best type of headboard? Do you take into consideration a headboard when shopping for a bed? ~

Oh yeah.  It is something you must look upon each time you rest.  

I have a sleigh bed, its called.  It is wrought iron and is quite lovely.  I guess from the side view it is shaped like a sleigh.  I will look for one on here and show you.

While the bed is lovely, the mattress is really all that matters.

I discovered foam.   I took some of that firm by very giving foam that was in a couch seat.  It was big enough to cover the entire mattress.  So, when I lie down (lie lay lain? ) I fall asleep almost immediately.  I have no pressure on any part of my body and I feels like I am floating on a cloud.

So esthetics are important, but the mattress is the key.  I mean the bed has to be functional and inviting.

Kind of like this one, but no wood.  Just wrought iron.

This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at November 24, 2018 5:34 PM MST

I think choosing a headboard depends on personal taste. I do take a headboard into consideration when shopping for a bed, however, that doesn't mean I have to buy the headboard that comes with the bed.  I quite like the DIY up-cycling idea when it comes to headboards. 






You can even turn a headboard into something else...

All I know is that I don't much care for the one you have:

not sure since i dont even have a bed anynnore, been sleeping on an airbed

Personal choice. My wife's is a tall, ornate wooden one. Mine is the wall. Headboards serve no purpose.

Several years ago, we decided to get an Amish- made bed.  The Amish are fine furniture craftsmen. Made in rural Ohio. The boss, Marvin Yoder, told me that since they don't use electricity, they have a waterwheel that spins on a nearby creek and this powers airtools to carve the wood. He hires a non-Amish driver to deliver furniture in a van. 

Headboard?  What do you think I am - fancy shmancy or something (hi Rosie)?   I have never used a headboard since I left home and no way would I ever go back to anything heavy and monolithic. Beds to me should be user friendly and not looming over you and scaring you.