looking to attach something rectangular to wall for head support from sofa

kevcampbell · 22 May 2011 at 3:52PM

hello, looking for creatively minded DIY people for ideas

i have a klippan sofa from IKEA and if you do not know what one of them are look here http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/S69830944

you can basically see it is a sofa with a low back, and most of the time we cope but there are sometimes when we feel tired so our necks may need a good rest against something, the klippan is pushed back to the wall but the wall is too far back for the back of a head to reach unless you are possibly over 7 foot tall

i had thought of using something like a dvd case which i have included an image of below, but note that is not my dvd case, but i do have something like that but it is too short, and doubling them up would make them far too long as our sofa is backed up onto a wide chimney breast type wall that has obviously been blocked in, i guess a home made mdf box of some sort would have worked well but i am useless at DIY and have no tools for that sort of thing, so can anyone provide any suggestions? and i do not want to use pillows or cushions, i simply want something attached to the wall that sort of looks flush like a dvd case would have, as one of the walls are black, that being the wall the sofa is backed on to

hope someone can help, if you can, great

Waffle_On · 22 May 2011 at 7:44PM

If it were me I'd probably be thinking of something similar to a wall-fixed headboard for a bed. If you want extra head support it should surely be comfy and padded? I'd make a frame of the correct depth, add some chunky foam, then cover it in a nice fabric, stapled at the back. Then fix the whole thing to the wall. All you'd need in terms of tools is a saw, drill/driver and stapler. If you can't borrow those from someone, they wouldn't be that expensive to buy.

kevcampbell · 22 May 2011 at 7:57PM

searched google for wall fixed headboards and whoa they are quite expensive, so if anything i guess it would need to be the 2nd idea you mentioned which sounds quite good, what would i make the frame out of and i guess the foam would be cut to the same dimensions as the frame so it was only on one side

will defiantly try looking into it, like i say though i am useless at that stuff, may need to hire you to make me one i think, by the sounds of things

take care

martyn05 · 22 May 2011 at 10:37PM

Waffle_On wrote: »

If it were me I'd probably be thinking of something similar to a wall-fixed headboard for a bed. If you want extra head support it should surely be comfy and padded? I'd make a frame of the correct depth, add some chunky foam, then cover it in a nice fabric, stapled at the back. Then fix the whole thing to the wall. All you'd need in terms of tools is a saw, drill/driver and stapler. If you can't borrow those from someone, they wouldn't be that expensive to buy.

This what I would do as well, make a frame, pack it with foam, cover in fabric, attach to wall.