mkrzy, great job on your headboard. I wish I were so handy. I like the white; you can always recover it with something else later. bebe, the bed is from a company called Fine Furniture. Their website is www.FFDM.com. We ordered ours from Boyles furniture in Mocksville, NC. The whole collection is beautiful and on sale right now. meg, I'm no expert on this but the leather would seem the most durable. You could always buy a piece of the microfiber and test it out. I'm just throwing caution to the wind with the fabric on mine but i do have three huge pillows that will probably always be there; we keep them in back of our sleeping pillows at night. Good News, the bed I ordered is actually in the warehouse!!!

I also got one on hsn. It was $300 for a Cal King. The legs are somewhat adjustable, but still far too tall for my bed. I bought a mounting bracket on Amazon for $20 or $30 and hung the frame on the wall. I love that it doesn't creak or anything - I'm amazed that it really doesn't move at all. Also, buying the mounting bracket was cheaper than buying the "super special exclusive" brackets from Select Comfort (we have a Sleep Number bed.) The headboard is comfortable to lean against. It did have a packaging smell to it - I had to let it air out in my dining room for around a week before I brought it up to my bedroom. When I was looking, they had the same headboard on the csn stores website for around the same price. Here is a link that might be useful: hsn headboard

I like the first one because of its graceful lines. The second one seems over powering and the third a little unusual looking. We have a tufted one and haven't had a problem with staining but we don't use much on our hair and I've never noticed that our heads go up that far anyway. We do have a cat but after one try of scratching we firmly told her no and she hasn't done it since. I would look around on the internet a bit more before making a decision; there are so many sources our there. We got the one we wanted rather inexpensively and it's the perfect style, color and size for us. Please ignore the ugly chest and funky ivy over the window. This was in 2009, the chest and ivy are gone and we've added pale gold floor length curtains that are on the French door over the bed to control the light.

How wide, meaning how high, is that headboard? Assuming that's a 26" Euro, it looks like if you raise the headboard just another couple of inches, it'll be a good height. If you do end up with a gap, you could either add height to the mattress via a thicker mattress pad, or you could add a trim piece to the top of the headboard before upholstering. Actually, the thickness of the batting around the edges (depending on how much batting you use) will add another 1/2" to 1" to the overall dimensions of the headboard. You could do a cleat, btw, if you mount it on a furring strip OR use beveled lumber as your cleat, which is how my headboard is mounted!