Musical Headboard
A Project From 2011
OUR TOWNHOUSE has three bedrooms. One of them, we decided to remodel as a guestroom. Remodeling included removing wallpaper, repainting and adding some recessed lighting.
For furnishings, we moved an armoire into the guest room that had been converted to house a computer, and for the bed, a headboard with integrated speakers was constructed.
The headboard frame is pine with plywood panels added for rigidity. The speakers had their own mounting system and simply needed correctly sized holes to latch onto. The headboard frame is wrapped with a length of rollup blind material made from narrow strips of some type of reed or bamboo. The gaps between the strips provide sufficient voids for sound to penetrate, and yet the blind material is dense enough, overall, to obscure the wood and speakers behind it. It’s capped with a top rail made from building up three different molding profiles.
An amplifier connected to the computer in the armoire powers the speakers.
The frame
Plywood has been attached and the speakers mounted
Attaching the blind material
The top rail
