Solid Wood Headboard - Cottage Collection - Shaker Design

Solid Wood Headboard

Our Solid Wood Headboard for Shaker Beds is part of the Cottage Collection. When you purchase the bed as a whole, these pieces are included. However, you also have the option to purchase the headboards and footboards separately.

These headboards are available in twin, full, and queen sizes. You can choose from heights from 22 inches to 44 inches.

Our headboards and footboards are easy to install. They come with pre-drilled holes for fitting onto an existing Shaker Designs bed. They can also be attached to a metal frame. Made from solid wood, these headboards use traditional mortise and tenon construction for long-lasting durability.

Select your preferred finish color to match your bed.

The rest of the content below is general information about our Cottage collection.

Cottage Collection

We have different collections of beds and bunk beds, and each group has its characteristics. Our Cottage collection has a husky and traditional look and feels, which you may see in a cottage, hence the name. This collection has its roots in Ontario’s cottage country.

In this collection, we use mortise and tenon joinery for most strength. All drawers inside the dressers or nightstands are dovetailed joinery. Our Cottage collection is a lifelong investment; we build them strong enough to last you a long time.

We use durable, non-toxic, low-VOC finishes to make the Cottage collection the clean, healthy choice for your home. All colours are wood stain, not paint, including the white finish. Wood stain is ideal for showing the natural beauty of wood grains. You can also choose unfinished if you wish to apply your colour.

Hardware and Assembly

We use high-quality hardware for this collection. We include the hardware, instructions, and a simple allen key. You will need a Phillips screwdriver and do not need power tools.

Assembly of our Cottage collection is reasonably straightforward. You do not need to assemble the ladders, headboards, case goods and underbed storage drawers. We ship them pre-assembled. Case goods are items such as nightstands and dressers. We recommend two adults for easier assembly and handling.

Solid Wood

In our Cottage collection, we mainly use Southern Yellow Pine. We use premium wood, which is knot-free with no finger-joint pieces for maximum strength, and that is how we can achieve 400 pounds of weight capacity.

For case goods, we use plywood for the back Shakers and the bottom of the drawers. The case goods' casing, or shell, is solid wood and solid wood veneer for the top part.

Solid wood products like bed frames, loft beds and bunk beds are robust, easy to maintain, beautiful to look at and hold their value.

Bed Slats

Slats in our Cottage collection are knotty solid pine. Each slat is 5.5 inches wide, with nine slats per deck. That is nine slats for lofts and bed frames and 18 slats per bunk bed. All sizes use the same number of slats per deck.

Space between the slats is 3.5 inches for single and double and more for other sizes. If you wish to add an extra bed slat to reduce the spacing or as a spare, you can order one individual slat.

We do not use center support for our queen and extra-long beds and bunks in this collection. You must screw in every slat from both ends to the mattress rails, which is sufficient to achieve the strength you need. We add a center support bar to our king-size bed frames in this collection.