A quick and simple Queen Size headboard for roller frame bed. Need applique ideas...

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So our guest bedroom has a queen sized bed, and it is using one of those collapsible roller bed frames, that is sufficient for the purpose, but... Okay they are crap.

Anyway The thought occurred to me to maybe make a headboard for it, using 2x4s which I need, and pine bead board that I have way too much of as I massively overestimated how much bead board the wainscotting in the guest bath would use...

My idea is more than a bit lunky but bear with me...

2x4s jointed and planed to an actual 1x3, making verticals all the way, and 2 cross rails, one just below the top of the mattress, and one at maybe 18" above that. The uprights I am thinking about capping with a simulated pyramid finnial, Bead board filling the inset via a rabbet on the back side, and a panel in the middle for a design feature, either a heart, or maybe since we have a lot of Texas theme going on here, a star...

Looking to basically make something useful that would gobble up stuff we have wasting space in the shop, OR inexpensive materials.

Finish would be gloss white enamel paint that I will intentionally distress for a more rustic look...

I am thinking the star would probably look better, but I have never done a segmented star before.

Does anyone have any pointers for making hte segments and insuring the miters are good and accurate?

[LCHIEN]

Did you try and google

5-point segmented star woodworking
https://www.google.com/search?q=5-po...client=gws-wiz

Does it need to be an applique? How about just a hole. No complex miters.

[leehljp]

How fancy do you want? Here is a beginning point. Look at the list on the left and choose that room/location in the Amazon list of appliqués.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=wood+appliques&i=garden&rh=n%3A1055398%2Cn%3A1063306%2Cn%3A1063308&dc&crid=VGVWN899XYBT&qid=1651234958&rnid=1055398&sprefix=wood+app%2Cgarden%2C91&ref=sr_nr_n_3

[dbhost]

I just did some googling on the subject, and after looking at Lorings suggestion, I think the negative image of that... I.E. just do a scroll saw star, overlaid onto a circular background ....

I think I have an idea now...