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No Headboard Bedroom Ideas

Headboards can be beautiful accents that reinforce your bedroom's grand design and highlight your bed as a key focal point. However, they're hardly necessary for creating a fully-realized design. Whether you're considering it because of budget, architecture, or just general style, you'll find there are plenty of no headboard bedroom ideas out there and ways to make up for the lack of headboard.

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Custom Wall Decor

If you don't have a headboard, then that leaves extra room above your head for artwork or some other type of wall decor. While you can hang any art above the bed, choosing a customized piece like this can help establish a unique focal point and ensure that the art stands out, since it's not competing with a headboard.

Wonderful Windows

Placing a bed in front of a large set of windows is a great way to complement the room's architecture and create a unique aesthetic. When you do this, be sure that you can access the window shades and curtains if you need to--beauty and practicality should go hand-in-hand with great design!

Round rug for queen size bed
Queen Size Runner Rug

Minimalism

Having no headboard allows you to add more detail to the room in other areas. If this bed had a headboard, then the two area rugs and multi-textured pillows would likely overwhelm the space. Without it, you have more freedom to add more busy or unique accents/decor.

Modern Chic

Just because you have open space above the bed doesn't mean that you have to fill it. Intentionally leaving it blank can create a more modern, airy design that feels more minimalist. Plus, having bare walls above the bed gives you more freedom to add a busier area rug, like the hide rug shown in this modern chic bedroom.

Round rug for queen size bed

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No Headboard and No Frame

If you're furnishing a bedroom for a child or teen, then you may want to skip the bed frame altogether. Placing beds directly on the floor can create a very cozy bedroom, especially in lofts like this where the space is naturally enclosed.

Staggered Wall Art

More traditional bedrooms typically have artwork neatly arranged so that they are the same exact size as one another and they are displayed at the same exact height. Modern bedrooms on the other hand take artistic liberties by experimenting with different photo sizes and placements to create a statement. Even when it's done with just two pieces of art, you can see how it impacts the room's overarching aesthetic.

Round rug for queen size bed
Queen Size Runner Rug

Attention To Detail

Accent walls and even accent ceilings are coming into style as unique ways to showcase your style. If you have an especially busy design (or just want the focus to be on that accent wall/ceiling), then try minimizing detail elsewhere in the room by limiting the color scheme, using simple bedding, and omitting a headboard.

Luxurious Lighting

Even if you do not have a detailed accent wall like the one shown here, you can still decorate the wall by your bed frame with a wall sconce or two. Wall lights not only practically serve the room, but they can also act as beautiful decorations.

Round rug for queen size bed
Image via Stephanie Paris Studio
Queen Size Runner Rug

Why Go Without?

Many people wonder what the appeal is of having no headboard. Well, the primary appeal is that it simplifies the bed and bed frame so that other elements can stand out. In this case, the view outside the windows stands out more since it doesn't have to compete with bulky furniture or extra details in the room.

Pop of Color

Painting an entire room a bright color can sometimes be overpowering. If you want to incorporate the color in a bold yet balanced way, consider painting the wall behind your bed a unique accent color. With no headboard, you'll have more space to let the color shine and be at the forefront of the room's design.

Round rug for queen size bed
Image via Studio Connolly
Queen Size Runner Rug
Image via Megan Dufresne

Murphy

Murphy beds are beds that fold back into the wall when they're not in use. As you can see with this murphy bed, painting the internal cabinet a different color can make it so the lack of headboard isn't even noticeable at a glance.

Texture

Texture can make even the simplest bedroom feel more complex. And, in complex global bedrooms like this, texture can make it feel even more grand. In order for that texture to shine though, leaving out the headboard and not using wall art is a solid choice. That applies not only to this room, but any bedroom with a textured accent wall.

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Image via Megan Dufresne

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Practicality

In some cases, there's simply no room for a headboard thanks to the room's architecture. As you can see by this room and all the others on this list, leaving out a headboard doesn't have to make the room feel incomplete--it can feel quite natural when the bed is intentionally placed in the room's architecture and with pillows as accents.

Gallery Wall

Gallery walls often use multiple frames, canvases, and pieces of art to create a big statement. While you can decorate the space above and around a headboard with a gallery wall, losing the headboard altogether gives you a greater area to work with ane ensures that the art won't be competing with the bed frame.

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Restraint

The temptation is to use a large piece of wall art to fill the space above your bed. While that's certainly valid, intentionally using a smaller work of art can help the room feel larger and less cluttered.


No headboard bedrooms are beautiful in their own right. Aside from taking up less space, these beds are also versatile enough to suit any interior design style. So whether you're decorating a modern, traditional, boho, coastal, or farmhouse bedroom, you can convey your aesthetic just fine with or without a headboard.

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