DIY RUSTIC/ BOHO HEADBOARD FOR DORM MY ROOM! Dimensions for Twin XL

We are making a DIY headboard And it's all on the ground Hey guys, today is May 10th and it is currently 12 10 p.m We are on our way to Home Depot to get some wood because we are making a DIY headboard Mine is for a twin XL. So I have like all the measurements for my bed, but I mean you can use this for Any size bed full queen? I don't know anything else I've been wanting to make a headboard for a really long time like the wood palette ones Like I think they're so pretty and I don't like the dark brown stain I'm gonna try to go for like a gray like distressed looking one I don't know how it's gonna turn out and hopefully they have the Stain color that I want because I looked in Walmart the other day and all they had was like Dark browns and I just don't really want a dark brown. It's not like the vibe I'm going for it in my room. My room colors are actually gray blush pink White and gold and stuff like that just like neutrals, you know, I'm a very visual person So I thought I would help you guys out by drawing a picture of this wood palette for you guys in the dimensions So first I'm going to start with the wood palette itself So just imagine this right here is a square this is going to be 42 inches at the top And this is going to be 42 inches right here And you get that okay, so then we have our back beams in the back And this will just help me draw kind of straight to her line All right, that helps a lot Should probably done that before and we're gonna have two of those. I mean you could do three If you really wanted to, you know, stabilize it a little bit more so the back beams that are going to be reaching the top all the way to the floor is 70 inches so I actually went to the room. I was going to be in and measured the bed I am 5'3. So if you do have like a longer torso when you sit up or Are a bit taller. You might want to increase the height of the whole headboard itself Because when I sit up, I think I'm gonna reach about here. So that's like perfect because I don't want my head like on the wall I want it to be like on the headboard when I'm sitting up if that makes sense And another quick thing that I wanted to share with you guys is that we actually had Seven wood pieces going down and each of these wood pieces were six inches To make 42 so that actually worked out really well So I hope this visual helped you guys out a little bit and now let's get on to the fun part How much is this? We got 14 pieces in total because we wanted to do seven on each headboard down Shout out to Ryan for helping me build my board Got the what is it called the backing? What? The beams for the back We're gonna go to aisle 5 to pick out some wood stain We got four beams in total so two for each and these boards were just a little bit thicker than the other ones We're looking at wood stains right now, I have my eye on this one right here That's like the color I want and I want to make it like a little bit distressed. This is like You know gray. I don't I don't really want gray, but I definitely don't want like brown This But that's like so gray Even this is pretty Like these carbon gray What do you think this one that's actually really pretty That's actually really pretty I can't pull it out This one carbon gray or Classic gray. I feel like No, no Yeah, I wanted just like a muted brown like a brown that I could turn like distressing gray But I don't know. I think this is cute. This gives it a little bit more color. The other ones just kind of washed out You know It's like you didn't even paint it Good. All right, should we do it? So we are gonna get this so it like waterproofs it and it's kind of like it's like a tough finish on it So that won't get ruined So the total for all of this was $50 and we're making two headboards one for me and one for my roommate so $25 each for a headboard is not so shabby I'm gonna load it up. So we got the wood. We're gonna head back to his house Am I pressuring you? Nice Perfect and you can always Check it by bringing that down and let it fall right on Just bisect the mark. There you go Push that red thing in So we're cutting the wood into 42 inch pieces we have this cool SAR very Nice that we could use Ryan's grandpa's shed So we didn't have to buy anything extra because then that would have cost us like I don't even know how much more So Ryan's measuring the back beams to 70 inches So again, the other wood pieces were 42 and then this back beam is 70 Spread these to the width of this Inside which side you want more? You like that? Okay Then you choose you want this on the left side right side? Damn all these Decisions line these up at the top Make sure it's flush on both sides. What's flush mean for all those non carpenters out there? No, like Lip or anything. It's just one straight line. Okay And what size screw are we using I like separate them like this. Mm-hmm with a middle of this board So that'll hold that one down right now and do the opposite of the side that you did up there So put some in the bottom. So you're doing touching like this There's no there's a little bit space but there's no like gap or a little bit of like opening like that. Mm-hmm So it's more like a pallet I guess. Mm-hmm. So I think we're going with though like a little bit open Just like a teeny teeny little bit. Yeah, that looks good. Yeah Maybe it'll give it a more rustic feel where it's not like everything is exactly the same Yeah, yeah You're standing the wood go with the greens so like the grain of the wood runs this way our most wood some of these Then here doesn't matter what you do to it you can go up and down whatever this is my time to shine I've been feeling so helpless and you can start with light add more if you want to Versus this now what I want to do is make it a little bit more distress So I'm going to take some white paint and just like flick it on the board What do you think? Looks good. Does it look cool like that or no? This is a polyurethane finish. Ultra fast dry time fingerprint resistant, superior buildability. And it's all on the ground. I spilled it on my dog all over her back. And me. Just want to rub it on. Just like you're staining it. And it mattes it instead of being glossy. See the difference between there and there? Mm-hmm And this is the finished headboard so I hope this video helped you learn how to make one or gave you inspiration to make one because I think this will add so much to my dorm and I can't wait to see everything together