Since Bob and I have been married we have never had a headboard or a real bed. We just have an old mattress set we bought off of another couple in Rexburg and a metal frame with semi-bent legs. So I have wanted a new bed for a while, but it has never been high up on the priorities list. I saw that we would buy one that I thought would look good in our room, for $199 plus $40 for the bed base. Even though that is cheap for a bed, we decided we would wait a month or two before we went ahead and bought anything.
But, while I was looking at it, I relized that we could probably build somthing very similar. I wanted the headboard a little bit higher so we changed it a little bit. It cost about $60 for the materials. It still needs a few touchups but this is the general look of it. I think they look pretty similar, but for some reason I don't like it as much as I thought I would. It looks better than what we had before, but when we put our black comfertor on it, I don't really like it. We probably just need new bedding, including some big pillows to tone down the size of the headboard. If anyone had an ideas let me know.