Slanted wall and slanted bed

[Villle]

Hello everyone!

Fairly new here so I hope the question isn't posted in the wrong place.

I just renovated the apartment I bought and now that I have bought a bed and pushed it against the wall, I see the bed is crooked, it's more than marginal and I therefore need to find a solution.

I also plan to build a headboard directly into the wall since I plan to install hidden lighting in it.

Now my question is, how do I build my headboard so that it stays straight even though it's built against a slanted wall?

I was thinking of using studs and drywall, if you have any ideas they are gladly received.

Regards

 

[Centano]

How slanted is the wall? If it's not too much, you should be able to build the headboard in a way that compensates for the wall's slant.

 

[Villle]

Exactly, that's what I've been thinking, but how do I measure how crooked or straight the wall and then the headboard will be?

 

[Centano]

How deep do you intend for it to be? Should it be as slim as possible or should it include storage options?

 

[Villle]

I'm thinking 5-10cm.

No storage but maybe a small shelf/outlet in it. If it's 5 cm deep, there's space for a 5cm shelf to put smaller items on.

Ikea has really nice lamps, a lamp called ÅRSTID, thinking one on each side of the bed, but I don't want the electrical cord to be visible, so if it's built in, I can run the cord through the headboard.

 

[Centano]

If it needs to be that thin, I would make it out of MDF and support it with some thinner battens. A batten fixed to the floor parallel to the opposite wall (red). On the wall, two vertical battens and one horizontal at the top, also fixed to the wall. Then screw or screw/glue the cut MDF pieces to the battens. I think it should work to let the large vertical MDF board meet the MDF lid directly without a batten.

To ensure that the headboard is parallel with the opposite wall, I would just measure to get the same distance to the wall and start from there.

I'm not sure if hiding the electrical cable would be correct from an installation perspective, but I understand the idea of hiding it. On the lamp, the cable seems to emerge at the bottom and not at the back, which should make it trickier to hide it in a good way.

 

[Villle]

Hiding the cable seems like the least of my problems right now.

The wall opposite is also slanted, which means I don't have a straight reference in the room.

But I think I have an idea. I've seen when they lay flooring and the wall is slanted, they have a distance, about 5cm, and at the end of it, there's a pencil.

Imagine a stick, one end of the stick is pressed against the slanted wall, the other end has a pencil attached. You draw a line, and the slanted angle of the wall is transferred to the floorboard. If you cut along that line and place the board against the wall, the side of the floorboard becomes straight, and that's probably how I'll have to do it to get a straight wall opposite, or if I can transfer this directly to the end, it should probably work.

Thank you so much for the response; now I have an idea of where I can start, fingers crossed it works out.

Regards