Leather Headboards: Know your leather grades

Leather Headboards

An upholstered headboard offers a comfortable and chic place to lay your head. An upholstered headboard is a fantastic choice for those who watch TV or read in bed. A leather headboard takes this look to the next level. Leather has a naturally sumptuous and regal presence that is guaranteed to make your headboard stand out.

Why Choose Leather?

Leather is a luxurious material that adds a touch of refinement to everything it touches. Leather can look totally masculine when rendered in deep colors like espresso or classic colors like tan. When updated in white or black, it takes on a thoroughly modern appeal. Leather wears well over time. It is more durable than regular fabrics and takes on a warm patina as it gets older. That said, it is probably wise to keep delicate suede away from children's bedrooms. To maintain, vacuum or wipe down your headboard with a damp cloth.

Leather Headboard Style

Leather headboards are available styles ranging from formal to casual. A simple rectangular headboard in leather patchwork is a simple yet stunning choice. Go for a leather headboard with a scalloped edge for a more formal and eye catching look. Try a feminine look with a white leather headboard accented by silver leaf. Diamond tufting and pretty carvings are truly gorgeous details. Simple channel upholstery against dark wood in a low profile design is another option with a more urban vibe. For added panache, a tufted leather headboard in deep mocha that is ideal. Its scalloped edge is finished off with wrought iron scrollwork set off by a stunning maple burl veneer.

Grades of Leather Headboards

• Full Grain: Full Grain is the softest, most valuable, and most durable form of leather that can be used to upholster leather headboards. This kind of leather has imperfections. The imperfections are like a fingerprint, no two hides are the same. Full grain leather headboards for king sized beds, are the most valuable type on the market.
  
• Bonded Leather: Bonded leather headboards might be exactly what you need. Bonded leather is made by chemically combining pieces of leather together. In some cases, plastics such as vinyl are used in conjunction with leather fibers to create the new product. There is a wide variety of different kinds of bonded leather.
  
• Faux Leather and other substitutes: Faux Leather usually means that the material is made from something to appear as though it is leather, normally it is easy to determine if something is made of leather. Some of the products on our site, and on this page are made of leather substitutes, and bi-casts, which are inexpensive, easy to clean and maintain.

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