What better to spice up a bedroom than one of our many trendy headboards, designed and made in the UK, and delivered directly to your front door.

At the top of the trend charts in bedrooms are the New Design Contemporary headboard collection, available for direct purchase at www.headboards.co.uk . We have a scintillating range of modern fabrics including stunning faux leathers, cool faux suedes, funky chenilles and dazzling metallic fabrics.

Take a browse through our leather and suede style headboards of our home page and you will then need to select your desired size: Small Single headboards. Single Headboards. Small Double Headboards, Double Headboards, King Size Headboards. And Super King Size Headboards. Once you’ve made you size selection you will see 17 of this years most desirable designs, all available in a massive range of colours and textures.

If you are after a grand design, why not check out our Iota or tufted Jot headboards. Something simple stylish and modern? you may be tempted by our stunning Quill, with luxury straight cut pipe framed ending. Wish to mix it up? Take a look at our Sun and Premier headboards, where you can enjoy the option of choosing three independant fabrics and colours on the same design.

We challenge you to take a look and not find a design that is absolutely perfect for you. Keep your eyes peeled for even more new styles entering our range over January 2012 including bling headboards with featured Swarovski style diamonte tufted buttons and some desirable real leather chic headboards, again available in a choice of colours.

We are the market leader and Number one in the UK for delivered made to order headboards, so why look further. Our sale continues as does our expert advice, so please feel very free to drop us an email to discuss any requirements you may have.

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This season has the welcome back of a style which has certainly stood the test of time – Classic Tufting.

This very distinct style has been applied to the headboard to give a classical reference to all that is chic and luxurious. Once used in traditional Chesterfield designs, these headboards harc back to days of gentlemen’s clubs, and grand regal libraries. In a process which sees the materials creased, folded and buttoned in a geometrical design, there is no better way of making a statement in your bedroom.

When combined with some of the stunning fabrics Headboards.co.uk offers, this style pick is top of the charts for the fashion conscious. Why not try our White Faux Leather fabric to modernise this timeless luxury. Or a Faux Suede to Juxtapose rustic style with Stately presence.

If you wish to use this design as feature in a traditional house, why not take a look at our carefully selected floral fabrics. Once selected, your special headboard will be constructed, packaged and delivered t to your door. Available in small single, single, small double (Three Quarter), double, king size and super king size.

Our best selling designs which encompass the buttoned fabric feature are the stunning ‘Juliet’, and the Grand wall mounted ‘Jot’ headboards. Use our search box to locate, and then simply select your fabric and pay at the online check-out. It could not be simpler!

As always, feel very free to email and questions you may have or any feedback you would like to report on this article. Happy shopping!

www.headboards.co.uk is happy to announce the start of The Headboards Sale!

We have the most comprehensive range of upholstered headboards in the UK, all available at SALE price to UK mainland customers.

Its never been so simple, simply browse our store, take a look at all styles and the relevant size you may be requiring, select the product, then scroll down to take a look at the huge range of fabrics available. Once you have selected your colour/fabric, add the product t the shopping cart and go to checkout. If you are a returning customer, simply enter your email address and password. Alternatively within minutes, you can set-up an new customer account, allowing you to purchase your selected product, and keep up to date with its manufacturing process.

We’re extremely confident that we have the styles, sizes, fabrics and colours of headboards that will suite any room or decor.

We stock and manufacture headboards in six UK sizes including Small Single (two foot six inches wide), single (three feet wide), small double (four feet wide), double (four feet six inches wide), king size (five feet wide) and the very impressive super king size (six feet wide).

We also have over twenty standard colours and fabrics including chenilles, faux suedes, faux leathers, and even metalic style material. Colours range from natural browns, stones and beiges. Modern colours including silvers, bronzes, blacks and whites. And traditional floral patterns. Fancy something  special, see our striped designs which can be likened to famous Paul Smith Designs.

Our prices are guaranteed to be the lowest in the UK, so shop with confidence that you are grabbing a bargain. This months sale has prices never seen before. If you wish to discuss anything to do with headboards, please feel free to email us, and a trained member of the team will be quick to respond.

Happy sale shopping, and remember, the look of your whole bedroom will be instantly changed with one of our cutting edge headboard designs.

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A change of Headboard is a fantastic and cost effective way of transforming your bedroom to a modern masterpiece or a traditional place of rest and relaxation.

By complimenting wall colours and textures with a bespoke headboard, your room will quickly gain a whole new look, at the fraction of the cost of re-decorating. The key to a good bedroom is always a stylish bed. From as little as £59.00 including free delivery you can give your re-charge zone a whole new feel.

Take a look at our unrivalled range of styles, colours and fabrics, and within just a few working days – we will make your dream headboard from scratch in our UK based manufacturing facility, and deliver direct to your door. Why battle the holiday traffic, when your decisions can be made from the comfort of your own home?

Whether its a single headboard, double headboard or king size headboard – we have the choice for you! We now even offer extensive choice if you’re after a small single headboard, small double headboard or a masterful super king size headboard – increasingly difficult to find in traditional ‘bricks and mortar’ furniture stores.

Our philosophy is simple:

1. Choose a headboard shape
2. Choose a headboard fabric and colour
3. Select how many you wish to purchase
4. Check-out in our secure shopping cart – supported by Sage Pay.
5. Within just a few working days, we deliver direct to your home.

It couldn’t be more simple. So what are you waiting for? click on our home page at the top left of the screen, and get browsing.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to drop us an email on info@headboards.co.uk

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Trying to steer clear of the sterile world of metal bed frames, and vinyl coated wood? Why not try to add some rustic texture.

Suede is quickly becoming the new choice for the interior designer – out to catch a warm, natural feel. Suede or ‘faux’ suede hit the interior headlines quite recently, but it was quick to prove a success. Taken on by some of the worlds best hotels, suede is set to become the most chic choice of accent fabric on the market.

Available at Headboards.co.uk, we have a massive range of suede and faux suede colours – ideal for creating winter warmth and style. Coupled with plump pillows and striped white bed sheets, suede can also be used to achieve a home lovers, modern oasis. Away from old fashioned centre pieces of the bedroom are grand wall mounted hotel style headboards, with contemporary takes on the chesterfield button pleat. Take a look at our Iota headboard – available in all sizes of bed including small single, single, small double, double, king and super king.

Wish to add the designer style on a budget price? not a problem – take a look at our extensive range of low priced modern headboards. Choose from any of the modern shapes of bed heads, and select your fabric and colour. With just a few hours we will be custom making your new bedroom feature piece.

Fancy some bling to your rustic thing? Why not add some diamonte lamps or crystal finials to your curtain poles. The perfect acompanyment to natures textured leather. Why not add a feature piece of furniture to match your funky new headboard – take a look at our matching upholstered furniture range. Again, made just for you and delivered direct to your door.

For the past 5 years, there has been a growing demand for leather in the bedroom!

Interior shows like 60 minute make-over, extreme home makeover and grand designs have shown how textures are best explored when it comes to the creating a warm welcoming feel to your boudoir. Leather is just one of the popular fabrics to gain a wealth of designer followers.

Whether it be real leather or faux leather, white leather or black leather, the way you display can have a huge bearing on gaining the desired look. The key to understanding this is colour! Deep tans and rich browns are ideal for creating a warm, subtle and inviting style. While the recently popular white leather finish, seems to perfectly seal a sleek and stylish contemporary or modern room. Textured Black can capture the modern bachelor feel, and red can certainly speak for those with an adventurous nature!

As fashions change, so do colours. New faux leathers are being produced in metalic finishes with Silvers, Golds and Bronzes at the top of the desirables.

While a headboard adds the strongest focus to your bed in a room, www.headboards.co.uk offer a stunning range of complimentary items of furniture which can be produced in matching fabrics – including the popular above mentioned leather fabrics. Bedroom chairs, ottomans, storage boxes and blanket boxes.

Your bedroom should be a haven of relaxation and rejuvenation! Do all you can to design it just the way you want it, and you will find it much easier to get a good nights sleep, leaving you more refreshed, with more energy to enjoy your life.

Leather headboards continue to be top of the purchase charts in 2011 and are only expected to become more popular in 2012. Keep an eye on our online store for latest designs and lowest prices online – we are sure you will find exactly what you want. If you have ideas on designs you would like to see, don’t be shy to let us know – our design team are all ears.

We’ll soon be unveilling some of the latest headboard designs to hit the UK.

Take a look at our home page to browse just some of the styles avialable to UK residents. Whether you’re looking for a new bed head to spruce up your bedroom, or wish to just add a touch of luxury to your nights sleep, we have the products for you.

In the UK the most popular sizes of bed are small single, single, small double (often known as a three-quarter bed), standard double, king size and finally the prestigious super king size bed. We have new designs to fit all sizes. Within just a couple of days, we will make a headboard up just for you, and deliver it directly to your door.

We really love to hear your feedback on what designs you would like to see. Working closely with our design team, we can quickly turn design ideas into impressive finished products. Whether it be made from chenille, leather, suede or even metallic fabircs, we will meet the market demand time on time.

If there are any subjects you wish to know more about in the bedding industry, just let us know. We’ll be more than happy to open a nation-wide discussion.

Many thanks for visiting www.headboards.co.uk , please browse the site and come back soon to see exactly why we are the nations favourite headboards specialist.

According to recent studies, we all need a minimum of six hours sleep every night to allow our bodies to recover from the daily drudge and to generally recharge our batteries.

In fact that six hours is also vital to our mental health and ability to function properly during the day overall, with those who don’t get sleep consistently performing well beneath their usual standards.

Surprisingly as a nation, although we need sleep and in fact spend a good amount of our lives sleeping we are not always forthcoming in putting a lot of effort in to buying our beds.

We tend to look at the aesthetic before the practical, which often can mean that we forgo the comfort for a sub-standard sleeping experience, which in turn can then give us back ache and mean we end up getting far less than the minimum six hours sleep. Some people spend more time debating the benefits between good looking headboards than the beds themselves. Although headboards are a key ingredient to achieving a perfect sleep they are only one ingredient on a very long recipe list.

When you think that dreamless sleep can take up to half of your overall sleeping time, allowing your brain to recharge itself properly it’s easy to see why a night of constant waking up and dreams (or even nightmares) is surely going to mean your mind will not be functioning all that well the next day.

If you’re a student you can also see why lack of sleep may not be a positive thing for your capacity to learn and develop too.

Scientists do say that lack of sleep can affect your attention span, memory, overall performance during the day and apparently can even change the value we place on certain decisions.

Therefore when buying a bed you really need to consider a lot more than the look of the bed you want so that you can get something that’s not only good value for money but one that will actually be beneficial to your overall health.

There are a host of bed types on offer, that include wooden bedsteads, metal bedsteads, divans and more so in this series of blogs we’re aiming to give you advice on the types available as well as the things you should look out for.

Wooden Bed Frames

This is probably one of the most common bed frames available on the market.

In the early making of beds, wooden bed frames were actually usually made by extremely skilled craftsmen who would virtually hand build a bed from start to finish, even decorating the bed with intricate carvings on the headboard.

Usually the wood was always high quality – with things like Oak forming an integral support structure to the bed itself and of course the ability to make elaborate headboards that would last an age.

These days though, while we still use wooden bed frames and like a nice headboard, you’ll find that the designs are perhaps less elaborate and at times the wood is a composite and made from things like MDF.  Although it’s important to note that there is still plenty of high quality solid wood bed frames available if you have the budget.

So what wooden bases are available?

Pine: A pine wood bed frame has been very popular with a lot of people.  Not only is it a wood that can be painted and the wood stained so it has a benefit to those looking to meet their aesthetic demands.

Its biggest benefit is that while it is a softer wood it is fairly sturdy – although be very wary of buying a very cheap one as you may find this is not structurally that good in the long-term.

Oak: As previously mentioned, oak is a great choice for a bed because it is extremely hard wearing and can last for a very long time.

It is synonymous with luxury usually as it’s probably not the cheapest bed option but it is highly durable, solid and can come in some beautiful finishes.

If you’re looking for an above average wooden bed frame then oak could well be a good choice as what you pay now will save you money later.

Cheery Wood:

If you’re looking for ultimate luxury both aesthetically and in a practical sense, then cherry wood will make a great choice.

It is extremely sturdy, will literally last over a hundred years, is easy to maintain and looks very appealing as it is a wine red colour.

This is obviously for someone with a higher budget, but if you like luxury and want something that will help you get your six hours sleep a night, this is definitely the best choice of wooden bed base.  Team it with a nice headboard and you’ll have something that will last good long while.

Water beds were originally intended to serve those with back trouble and suddenly shot to fame in the 1960’s and 1970’s as a must-have household furnishing accessory. They hit their peak of chic decades ago. During that period they were not particularly manufactured very well, made from water-filled vinyl set into a wooden frame aided by the warmth of a water heater. It was basic technology to create an inexpensive sleeping experience. Waterbeds died out during the eighties. Now, it would seem that waterbeds are making a comeback!

To dispel a popular myth amongst opponents of water beds, you won’t find yourself bouncing out of bed in the middle of the night or banging your noggin against the headboard at regular intervals.

Technical enhancements and design improvements have given the modern waterbed a highly more effective degree of comfort. Thicker gauge vinyl and stringer seams have improved an otherwise flawed concept. Today, waterbeds are considered extremely well suited for a peaceful night’s sleep. A common misconception amongst the uninitiated that waterbeds are noisy, when in fact once the air has been removed from the water mattress upon its installation, it makes no noise at all.

The construction of waterbeds has been architected to be stable and the weight of the water keeps it firmly in place, which means that it even beats out traditional beds. No more squeaking and creaking!

A general waterbed will offer you:

• Complete body support;
• Warmth;
• Hygienic sleeping surface;
• No pressure points;
• Long life span.

There are two kinds of waterbeds and three types of mattresses to choose from, so while the selection may be limited it means the quality is likely to be very strong indeed. Bare in mind that you have to compare the pros and cons of the different varieties and figure out which would suit your preferences best from the design, headboards, space, softness etc.

Soft-sided waterbeds are a conventional mattress and water mattress hybrid with a cushioned edge. At first glance it easily could be mistaken for a normal bed, at least until you sit on it.

Hard-edged waterbeds should be the more familiar to people and they are comprised of a solid frame, usually made of wood, where the mattress sits in. One of the problems associated with this type of waterbed, also known as free flow water beds, is the quantity of motion travelling across the bed that creates waves of movement on the other side; probably not the best choice for couples there.

Hydraulic mattresses are classed and marketed as “waveless.” The wave motion is reduced by individual vinyl coils inside the mattress that only fill with water once the person lies down on the bed.

Fiber-filled mattresses feature foam inserts designed to stabilise the movement of the water to provide a firmer surface. These can come in varying levels of firmness, specified by the amount of fiber baffling within the mattress.

Water-filled mattresses now have tubing and seaming that reduces motion in the waterbed without compromising on the comfort factor.

In the end, waterbeds are an acquired taste. Some people have spent their entire lives sleeping in beds that offer them stillness to enjoy a peaceful night’s rest. However, if you are looking for an adventurous bed that gives you an unusual and alternative sleeping experience, try browsing for a water bed.

If you are planning on buying a contract bed but would prefer to select the mattress and bed base as separate items you may well find this blog of interest.

People often think that a mattress is what makes a contract bed a comfortable contract bed, when in reality it is actually the bed base that comprises all the qualities which make contract beds comfortable and durable. Don’t forget that headboards also comprise an important part of the bed too! There are various choices of contract bed bases that you can make your selection from. The most important issue when thinking about bed bases is if it will be suitably compatible with the mattress you buy, if you are of course buying them separately.

To make your selection process easier here is a breakdown of what types of mattresses and bases are available.

There are four types of mattress that can be purchased:

1. Pocket sprung: the individual springs reside within fabric pockets and are independent of one another. They react to the pressure and position of the person laying on it and contour to their shape.
2. Open sprung/open coil: made from circular springs that weave together to make a single spring unit. If you apply pressure to one of them, you apply pressure to all of them. They are all connected.
3. Orthopaedic: considered the best choice of mattress for people who suffer with back pain or have trouble getting to sleep. It supports the spin in a correct alignment avoiding localised pressure points. They are designed to mould and contour to the shape of your body.
4. Foam: generally known as Memory Foam mattresses, they work with the person’s natural body heat to mould to the curves of the body. It is designed to relieve uncomfortable pressure points. The best type of memory foam spreads instead of sinks.

Each mattress has their own individual values and merits, but they are not all compatible with certain types of bed bases. You have to check to see how they will fit in with the bed base first. The same goes for selecting headboards to match your beds. This is key to attaining the right aesthetic and balance between your mattress, your bed base, the room and the headboard itself.

Now that you are familiar with mattress types, you should get to know what goes into your contract bed bases:

1. Sprung edge:  the whole of the bed base where the mattress rests on has springs to make the base more supportive, avoiding uncomfortable hard edges. These types of bases tend to work in conjunction with and help the mattress last longer.
2. Platform top: this has a hard top instead of the springs that the sprung edge has. It is constructed of wood with a padded base making the bed feel firmer.
3. Slatted base:  the most common bed base, used on bedsteads. It is comprised of wooden slats that support the mattress offering a firmer base.
4. Sprung slatted base: these are curved wooden slats with a natural bounce that adjusts your profile and works in harmonious synchronisation with the mattress to exert and liberate the pressure sensitive areas.

The base of your contract bed requires some careful thought and a bit of knowledge in order to be successfully selected. The mattress should be considered on the basis of its compatibility with the base. Once you know your base, you should be able to find your mattress with greater ease.