Why install a headboard?

There are many benefits to installing a headboard in your bedroom :

• Aesthetics : a headboard allows you to visually dress your bed and thus perfect the interior decoration of the entire room;
• Comfort : A headboard usually helps to prop up your pillows so you can read and check your screens comfortably. It will also prevent them from moving during the night, thus promoting good posture throughout your sleep;
• Well-being : a headboard plays a protective role between your head and the wall, in particular by protecting you from the "cold wall" effect. In addition, when well positioned, a headboard can help you create real Feng Shui harmony by promoting the circulation of energy in the room.

The main ways to mount a headboard

Generally, there are 3 ways to mount a headboard .

Fixing your headboard to the wall

You have the option of fixing your headboard directly to one of the walls in your bedroom: this involves having to drill the wall on which you want to place the headboard. This is the solution that allows you to ensure the greatest stability.

In this case, you must use a specific fixing system, generally using cleats or slides, made of wood or metal.

Mount the headboard on the box spring

To avoid having to drill into your wall, some headboard models can be fixed directly to the base of your bed.

Typically, the headboard manufacturer will provide you with the installation kit needed to mount your headboard to your box spring.

This solution creates a real harmony between the bed base and the headboard. The bases of the bed base and the headboard are thus perfectly aligned. In addition, since the headboard is raised, it is protected from the dust that often accumulates at floor level.

Place the headboard on the floor

This is the quickest and easiest method. You just need to wedge the headboard between the wall and the bed . The weight of the bed is usually enough to hold the headboard in place. This method has several advantages:

• You don't have to drill into your bedroom wall;
• You don't need any specific tools;
• You can change the position of your bed and headboard as you wish;
• If you move, you do not have to dismantle your headboard.
  

The criteria that influence the assembly of your headboard

How you should mount your headboard depends on several factors:

• The type of headboard : there are many different models of headboards, some can be fixed to the wall or to the bed base, others placed on the floor;
• The dimensions of the headboard : while the width of your headboard rarely influences the method for mounting it , its height can have an impact. A headboard that is lower than the height of your bed + base will have to be fixed to the wall to be positioned above the bed;
• Your preferences : many headboard models offer you the possibility of being fixed according to the method you prefer: to the wall, to the bed base or placed on the floor. In this case, you choose which mounting technique you prefer;
• If you are a tenant or owner : as a tenant, it can be annoying to drill into the wall of your bedroom to hang your headboard. In this case, it is better to turn to a model that can be mounted either directly on the bed base or placed on the floor.

How to assemble a Letti Letti headboard?

At Letti Letti, all our headboards can be placed directly on the floor or mounted by fixing directly to the wall of your bedroom or to your bed base .

If you choose to mount your headboard on your bed base , we provide you with the appropriate fixing kit. We have also provided wooden plates on each of our models, located at the front and back. This allows you to drill the headboard to attach the fixing brackets (also supplied with the headboard).

The headboard cover (which you can customize as you wish) then allows you to hide the fixing system, for an impeccable finish.