“Audiophile” Headboard
Our townhouse has three bedrooms. Our two boys shuffled back and forth between two of the bedrooms when they were young. At one point, they had settled into one of them together and we decided to remodel the other as a guestroom. Remodel perhaps overstates it as all we did was remove wallpaper and repaint. And we added some recessed lighting.
The bed was freestanding, and I thought it might look classier with a headboard. I decided to build one. Also, we moved an armoire into the guest room that had been converted into a computer cabinet. I thought it would be cool to play music from the computer into speakers built into the headboard.
The word audiophile is in quotes because the speakers in the headboard hardly qualify for that moniker, but they are decent so-called “in-wall” two-way speaker modules, and the end result sounds fine. They aren’t powered speakers, so they require a separate amplifier as the audio signal coming straight from the computer is not powerful enough to drive them. To supply the additional amplification, we have an AudioSource AMP 100 in the armoire, as well.
The headboard frame is constructed from pine. It’s wrapped with a length of reed rollup blind material. It’s capped with a top rail made from building up three types of molding.
Daniel has since settled back into the guestroom. It's technically still a guestroom, but all of our rooms are semi-multi-purpose rooms.