The gap is due to the baseboard at three bottom preventing the bed to fit closely to the wall. I'm anxious since I don't have the best bed on the world but I love to sit on the bed resting my back on the headboard. The way headboard flexes when I apply weight to it makes me question the rigidity of the whole construction. Would greatly appreciate suggestions on how can I fill that gap or do something about it.
Also, I cannot remove the baseboard, my landlord would be happy about it
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I have a small double divan bed and decided to buy a headboard for it so I can play my steam deck in bed sat up... Only issue is there is a plug socket behind my bed that stops me pushing it towards the wall, and the headboard is only connected by two cheap feeling pieces of wood the the base and I fear my weight against it might end up snapping the wood.
The gap between the headboard and wall is 3 inches... As you can see I'm currently using a butt cushion to fill the gap which is working well lol!
But I was wondering if there was anything a bit more suitable so I dont have to have a butt cushion there ha!
I have seen little headboard stoppers you can buy on Amazon but they use adhesive to stick to the back of the headboard and mine is fabric so I'm not sure if they'll work properly...
Any tips? Thanks!
My new apartment has a Murphy bed, which means there is a nearly foot long gap between the bed frame and the wall, where the bed is meant to be stored. Unfortunately this makes it very difficult to do things like read or watch TV while laying in bed.
This is not a new problem. There is this similar post on reddit that recommends placing a board along the L brackets and screwing it in. While I do already have these L brackets and this solves the problem of pillows falling in the gap, I expect it wouldn't be comfortable to lay on for reading and it makes it so I would have to unscrew and remove the board whenever I do want to actually fold the bed up into the wall.
An improvement on this option is to buy a bunch of bed wedges to stuff in the gap, probably by placing on top of the board. This worked for at least one person but I'm worried that my gap is too large for these products to work.
This solution fully fills the gap but makes significant modifications to the wall space, which I'm not sure my landlord would allow. And again, it runs into the issue of having to be taken apart to fold the bed up.
Solutions on other websites (other than this awesome one) are usually dealing with much smaller gaps where things like "stuff it with a body pillow" is sufficient. This one seems decent.
Finally, most products on Amazon made for this purpose do not go up to 11-12 inches or would be very expensive to buy enough copies to totally fill the gap.
So I've come here. r/DIY, how would you solve this problem?
Gap dimensions:
11.25 inches between wall and frame.
22 inches between ground and top of frame.
63.5 inches long.