| Are you bored with the design in your bedroom and | | | | needs. Depending on the style, these headboards can |
| looking for something new and different to do in the | | | | be used to signify several eras, ranging from the Old |
| space? Have you thought about creating a theme in | | | | West to the Puritan era and even up to the mid-20th |
| your bedroom inspired by the style of a particular | | | | century. In fact, wood is still a popular medium for a |
| decade or era? This can greatly affect your mood | | | | headboard today, so if you choose the style that |
| upon entering the room and spice up the place by | | | | matches your era of interest, you'll be able to use |
| reflecting your inner personality. One of the best focus | | | | wood for almost any purpose. |
| points with which to accomplish this is through the use | | | | While not the first time they were available, bookcase |
| of headboards, since they are typically one of the | | | | headboards really came into popularity in the 1980's. If |
| largest and most prominent pieces in the room. | | | | you're feeling a little New Age flare or late disco fever, |
| Whether you are inspired by modern design and have | | | | this might be the decade for you. Use the shelving to |
| contemporary bedroom furniture or have some other | | | | house your disco ball and lava lamp (left over from the |
| time period in mind and want to travel back to that | | | | 70s), as well as your books on evolution and pop |
| decade, the headboard of your choice can make it all | | | | culture. Be sure you have pictures of Rick Springfield |
| come together. | | | | and Cyndi Lauper on the walls, too! |
| For those who are obsessed with the Renaissance | | | | If all else fails, you can use prints to denote the style of |
| and Middle Ages, you may find that a theme of iron | | | | your room and the era for which you are decorating. |
| and wood portrays your innermost thoughts best. | | | | Upholstered headboards make it simple and fun to |
| Wrought iron headboards can really reflect the style of | | | | create a theme for your bedroom, allowing you the |
| the times in several ways, since this was a standard | | | | ability to redecorate often with ease and just a piece |
| material for bedding at the time and also denotes the | | | | of cloth and a few staples. Use paisley for the 70s, |
| fierceness of the era with its cold harshness. You can | | | | fluorescent shades for the 60s, all black to recognize |
| find these with intricately woven designs or hard, cold | | | | the Gothic wave of the 90s, or flashy metallic colors |
| straight bars and right angles, the latter of which was | | | | for the new millennium. Whatever your preferred era |
| more common in the Medieval era while the former | | | | is, you can find a way to create a bedroom theme |
| became the style during the Renaissance. | | | | around it with headboards as your centerpiece and the |
| If you are a little more interested in recent past, you | | | | draw to attention for any visitor. Let your personality |
| may find that a wooden headboard will suit your | | | | loose and give it a try! |