Shelves over beds

I notice a lot of RPodders have put shelves over their bed areas and wondering how they're attached. I've lived all my life with earthquake faults (well, other kinds of faults too but anyway...) and would never put anything other than soft goods overhead or next to a bed. I can imagine a lightweight rack with soft goods on it, but only if it's attached so it couldn't bounce off it's mounting in a quake. Are people attaching them or just setting them on the valance? It's not the quakes the scare me, it's the idea of getting hit on the head that I find daunting 

Live to Camp,Sounds like the Bum has done something similar to me.. what I did was buy the shelf at Lowes. It might depend on your model, I have the 171. The shelf was not long enough to reach the walls, so I added wooden extensions on each end. With careful measuring, that left just enough room to fit a couple of small square velcro pieces between the ends and the walls to hold it. It was a little tricky getting it in, but you can do it. It rests on the valances which is enough support, and allows me to slide it to my preferred position. Then I have a basket type container from Target to put loose misc. in.The wicker one with cloth insert. It fits perfectly. The shelf is sturdy, lightweight, attractive, and should be useful to put stuff like clothes,etc, as it's over the bed. I don't even think an earthquake could move it. Might move me and the camper though!

Glad to see some pics, thanks.

I would like to build a shelf by the mattress, next to the wall plug (outer wall of bath on left side, 171). Has anyone constructed shelves that cover that vertical wall - maybe graduating in width??

thanks so much for the pics. I love doing "projects" and am currently replacing my awkward bath door with a folding door. I hope it goes well - but as you know it is a lot of hit and miss corrections. Glad to see all mods everyone makes, even if not for my "baby" pod, 171.

When we took out the upper bunk in our 172, we left the part next to the head in place and turned it into a shelf.  We use cargo netting to keep things falling out.  We've been on many bumpy roads to Sierra Nevada US Forrest Service campgrounds and never had a problem with anything falling out.  Those roads would certainly simulate a magnitude 7 earthquake.