Okay, not that kind...get your mind out of the gutter. I'm talking design trick in the bedroom...a switch up if you will, by taking that plain old headboard you're so bored of looking at, and changing the style around by draping fun textiles over it!


A seersucker headboard just so-so...but not nearly as exciting when Lee Jofa creative director Stephen Elrod draped a Indian rug over it...a rug, what a great idea!!

A subtle touch can do the trick too, here coarsely woven antique hemp fabric is laid over a finer white linen headboard...for a more bold statement I could see a pale yellow being used as well!

This doesn't have to just work with fabric headboards, above is Seagrass headboard (which can be found at Pottery Barn), makes a great statement doesn't it!?!



And not only a bedroom trick, but works just the same on a sofa, one of my favorites above from the home of Amanda Peet featured in Domino...