Creativity at Work: Start an Art Headboard Business

Business Overview:

If you’re looking for a unique way to use your artistic talents and be your own boss, you should look into how to start an art headboard business. Traditional headboards are made of wood and have a matching footboard. Today’s modern bedroom has a “floating” mattress and box spring with no footboard. The headboard can be made from a variety of materials – painted canvas, fabric, even a photograph. Making headboards customizable opens up a vast market for people to choose exactly what they’d like the centerpiece of their bedroom to look like. Before starting your art headboard business, however, you should closely examine your artistic strengths and decide what your niche will be. If you are a skilled painter, you could offer a few “stock” painted items and also offer customers the option of a custom look. You could paint from a photograph or just an idea your customers present. If you’re not a painter but have skills as a photographer, you can enlarge your own photographs to attach to headboards. A third option uses the limitless world of digital imaging to create art for truly custom headboards. This option would be perfect for a graphic designer looking for a way to branch out into another industry. Like an artist who uses a computer as a canvas, creating beautiful digital art means the graphic designer can duplicate popular designs as well as offer custom work. If you’re skilled with a sewing machine, you can offer custom fabric headboards. All you need to get started with this business is a great website and a few tools. Each headboard will be custom made and assembled in your clients’ homes so you don’t need a lot of storage space. You’ll find that this is one of the most creatively rewarding work-from-home business ideas out there today. Not only do you get to express your artistic side and make a good profit in your spare time, your work will be the showpiece of many people’s bedrooms and that will surely get you plenty of referral business.

A Day in the Life of an Art Headboard Business Owner:

This article brought to you by Business Ideas! If you enjoyed this article, make sure to subscribe to the Business Ideas Newsletter to get ideas sent straight to your email inbox.Your day will begin with a check of any new orders. You will meet with potential clients, look at their space and discuss what their needs are. You will then continue work on any ongoing projects. Depending on what your medium is, you will tweak a digital image and print it out (or take it to a print shop), continue working on a custom painted headboard or work with your clients to select the perfect photo from your portfolio. You will need to spend some time marketing your business. Contemporary style furniture stores will be most in tune with your products and if you can arrange for a headboard or two to be displayed in a few stores around town, you will see a huge bump in sales. Of course you will need to pay the furniture store a commission so be sure to consider that when pricing your items.

About Your Customers:

Your customers will be individuals and couples looking for a beautiful, modern, custom piece of art that is also a headboard.

What You Need to Start:

• Artistic skills (or an artist on staff)
• Website
• Tools and supplies (will vary depending on your medium but may include canvas, paints, fabric, glue, nail gun, etc.)
• Computer with finance software

The Good:

• This is a great way to express yourself creatively.
• It’s rewarding to create the perfect centerpiece for a living space.
• You can run this business part-time and from home.
• You don’t need a lot of storage space.
• You can charge top dollar for high quality products.

The Bad:

• Getting your first few clients can take some time.
• Installing these large pieces of art can be labor intensive.

Resources:

• Professional Association for Design
• American Home Furnishings Association
• Bureau of Labor Statistics on Artists
• Wikipedia on Headboards

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