Fun house-board for a bed
Nothing says "sweet dreams" like a bedtime story.
Top off the bed with a house-shaped headboard that doubles as a bookcase for bedtime reads.
Create the basic structure, reinforce it with smaller pieces of wood, then add the trim, paint and other decorative touches that give the piece its personality.
The headboard for this custom bed is basically a SupaWood box with internal supports, shelves and an angled "roof."
Start by sketching out a scale drawing of the headboard before getting started. The headboard should be the same width as the bed. If the headboard will double as a bookcase, make it 300mm deep (a standard shelf depth) and whatever height suits the user.
Cut 12mm SupaWood pieces for the front, back, sides and bottom of the headboard box, based on the scale drawing. For the house-shaped bookcase headboard in this project we cut a back piece that combined the rectangular box shape and the triangular "roof" area to back up the entire piece.
The front of the box was a rectangle that left the triangular area open to the front for book storage.
Cut an additional SupaWood piece the same size as the bottom of the box. This will serve as the shelf to hold the books.
