For years now I have been looking for a headboard. I wasn’t very keen on some of the more solid things I have found for sale at places like ‘The One’ or ‘The Marina’ and the more ornately local flavoured decor didn’t particularly appeal to me either. Then Phil found something he thought I might enjoy on a blog he reads called Messy Nessy. It’s a very quirky, eclectic blog full of Parisian treasures and anything else that just happen to appeal to the author. He thought her collection of wall art might just solve my headboard problem….

I thought painting it on myself might be easier than trying to source a ‘stick-on headboard’ in Dubai. The problem was how to convert what I saw in this drawing into something large enough to use on the wall…. Firstly I copied the design onto a piece of paper, and improvised what I thought the curly bits blocked by the cushions would look like.

The trick was to get the left side the same as the right. To resolve this issue I photographed the half I had drawn and my son created a mirror image of the photo on PowerPoint and then married the left and right side to create the ‘whole headboard’ as an image. This was then saved as a jpeg file and put onto a USB which was in turn plugged into our long suffering friends borrowed projector. The projector was placed on a tripod and the size and height were adjusted so it would be a correct fit for the width and height for our bed. I then traced the ‘headboard’ onto the wall and removed the projector. Once this was done it didn’t take long to paint, and VOILA, my faux headboard was done!

Projecting the image onto the wall to copy.

Painting on the headboard.

Finished…. Just awaiting the cats approval.