Making bedroom furniture...

[CGCINC]

Nice work looks like you have the patience to spend the time to do quality work, I do not know where you are in Missouri but there is a wide variety of hardwoods available to the woodworker at very reasonable pricing.
A lot of the sawmills will sort there lumber and color and grain match it for customers leaving some pretty nice lumber left at very reasonable pricing. The dark streaks in your material are signs on Minerals and would have been downgraded and priced at a lower rate than the norm.

PS: If you are close to the KC Metro i can hook you up with some suppliers to help lower your project costs,I might even have some oak sheet good you could use at a discounted price.

I'm in Farmington MO.. About an hour and a half south of St. Louis. I have a hardwood supplier about 30 mins. away but I don't work with it much so I just bough some Oak at Lowes. It's fine for my needs. Now I did buy the Oak top to the bench by my front door, online at Baird Brothers because at the time I didn't have the ability to glue boards together.

[cbmkr]

If you are in a situation where you need to bend some oak for another edge , I can help with a technique i have used for years it is simple and requires a simple fixture and some water or steam. I have bent 1/4" solid oak into 12" radius's with no problem. The bowed top on your headboard would be a simple 2 hour project from start to finish and drying overnight.
Any questions you have about Woodworking feel free to ask as i have been doing it for 40+ years and taught woodworking while i was in High School for 4 years.