Recommendations for dorm headboard

[Anonymous]

Dumb trend. Will end soon.

[Anonymous]

Third kid in college now and I've always been anti-headboard for many of the reasons set forth above. However, I ended up buying one for my daughter last year because a windowsill in her teeny tiny room made it impossible to push her bed up against a wall. There was about a 10-inch gap and her pillows would fall down there every night.

We got the headboard at Wayfair and attached it with long zip ties. Worked just fine. And, for those of you saying that headboards are only a southern thing, my daughter attends a top 10 school in the NE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this really a thing now? What happened to hanging up a tapestry and some posters?

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PB Teen hehe. These must be Southern schools. The intellectuals up north aren’t even thinking above this kind of nonsense.

Agree. Sounds like something my Texas niece attending Oklahoma State (who coordinated every decorating detail with her roommate ahead of time, including a pink refrigerator) would have on her "must" list, though I think even she didn't get a headboard.

I've never heard anyone talk about headboards for dorm rooms in the Midwest, East, or mid-Atlantic.

[Anonymous]

You should have looked in the spring. So many just get dumped outside of freshman dorms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PB Teen hehe. These must be Southern schools. The intellectuals up north aren’t even thinking above this kind of nonsense.

Agree. Sounds like something my Texas niece attending Oklahoma State (who coordinated every decorating detail with her roommate ahead of time, including a pink refrigerator) would have on her "must" list, though I think even she didn't get a headboard.

I've never heard anyone talk about headboards for dorm rooms in the Midwest, East, or mid-Atlantic.

The South is its own little microcosm. I grew up. There and do not recommend. But yo do you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Be sure to check with the school about what is allowed. Fire codes at older DCs school would have prohibited this for multiple reasons (no tapestries, either).

DC2 isn’t allowed to bring anything classified as furniture, but that definition is fuzzy. I have no idea if a headboard would be ok unless I asked specifically.

This x 1000.
My daughters school specifically stated they allow them in any on campus dorm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:PB Teen hehe. These must be Southern schools. The intellectuals up north aren’t even thinking above this kind of nonsense.

Agree. Sounds like something my Texas niece attending Oklahoma State (who coordinated every decorating detail with her roommate ahead of time, including a pink refrigerator) would have on her "must" list, though I think even she didn't get a headboard.

I've never heard anyone talk about headboards for dorm rooms in the Midwest, East, or mid-Atlantic.

The South is its own little microcosm. I grew up. There and do not recommend. But yo do you

I don't do the south either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Third kid in college now and I've always been anti-headboard for many of the reasons set forth above. However, I ended up buying one for my daughter last year because a windowsill in her teeny tiny room made it impossible to push her bed up against a wall. There was about a 10-inch gap and her pillows would fall down there every night.

We got the headboard at Wayfair and attached it with long zip ties. Worked just fine. And, for those of you saying that headboards are only a southern thing, my daughter attends a top 10 school in the NE.

OH, if it's a top 10 school in the NE, then obviously everyone at lesser schools should want a headboard too. seriously wtf.

[Anonymous]

My daughter had the one from PB Teen. Ended up ripping the paint off the wall and kept slipping. Went into the donation bin at the end of the year. Huge pain to move. They look nice but more of a hassle than anything.