How to Install a Headboard to a Frame

Headboards complete the overall style of a bed and can often be an accent piece for the bedroom. They are either mounted to the wall behind the bed or attached to the bed frame. Bed frame mounted headboards are easy to install. Slots are cut into the headboard where it intersects with the bed frame. The bed frame has metal hooks that interlock with the slots. Once the headboard is locked in place with the slots it is fastened to the frame with screws that come with the headboard. The end result is a sturdy and attractive bed frame mounted headboard.

Headboard, with included mounting screws
Rubber mallet
Screw gun

Instructions

- 1
  Move the bed out from the wall so that you can easily access the headboard end of the bed frame. Ask someone to help you if you have a large or heavy bed.
- 2
  Center the headboard with the head end of the bed frame. Lift the headboard up and pivot the slots over the corresponding metal hooks in end of the bed frame.
- 3
  Lower the headboard down in place. Tap the top of the bed frame on each side to secure the hooks into the slots and lock the headboard in place.
- 4
  Drive the mounting screws that were included with the headboard through the mounting holes on the bed frame into the headboard using a screw gun to further reinforce the headboard.

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