How to Choose the Right Headboard for Your Bedroom

A headboard is often treated as a purely decorative choice, but it plays a bigger role than most people expect — both in how your bedroom looks and in how comfortable your bed actually feels day to day.

Start with height and shape. A tall headboard makes a strong style statement and works particularly well in rooms with higher ceilings or as a focal point behind a statement bed. A shorter, more compact headboard suits smaller rooms or a more understated look, and tends to make the whole bed feel a little less dominant in the space. If you like to sit up in bed to read, watch TV, or work on a laptop, a taller, well-padded headboard gives your back and neck proper support — something a low headboard or no headboard at all simply can't offer.

Fabric choice matters just as much as shape. A soft chenille headboard has a deep, tactile texture that feels warm and inviting, and tends to suit more relaxed, cosy bedroom styles. Linen has a lighter, more natural look with a subtle woven texture — a good fit for calmer, Scandinavian-inspired rooms. Our Naples weave fabric has a smoother, more structured finish that works well in a slightly more formal or contemporary bedroom, while plush velvet adds an instant sense of luxury and pairs beautifully with richer, jewel-toned colour schemes.

Colour is worth planning around your existing furniture and walls rather than choosing in isolation. A neutral shade — cream, mink, or grey — gives you flexibility to change soft furnishings and wall colour later without needing to replace the bed. A bolder colour, like our emerald green or marine blue velvet options, works well as a deliberate feature piece in an otherwise neutral room.

Finally, think about practicality: headboards that attach directly to a matching divan base tend to give the cleanest, most integrated look, while a separate headboard fixed to the wall or a base gives you more flexibility to change your bed base independently in future.

Whatever style you're drawn to, our headboards are available in a range of shapes — including Lona, Milan, Pearl and Valencia silhouettes — across all four fabric ranges, so you can match the exact look and comfort level your bedroom needs.