Independent murphy bed comparison
The bed disappears.
The specs should not.
Vendors rank their own beds first. We compare every murphy bed, cabinet bed and DIY kit on the makers' own published specs instead: projection, mattress limits, mechanism and price, sourced and dated.
73
models from 10 makers, every figure traced to its maker and dated
37.5"
how far the shallowest bed we track reaches into a room once it is down
0
numbers on this site we estimated, rounded off a drawing or took from a rival
Start here
Which murphy bed suits you?
Size, what the room does the rest of the time, whether you are allowed to drill, and budget. Four answers cut 62 beds down to a handful.
Question 1 of 4
Measure
Start with the room you have
Most guides start with the bed. That is backwards. Room depth rules more of this market out than budget does, and no budget moves a wall.
A box room
Eight feet from the mounting wall to whatever is opposite it. The depth most people have and the one that rules the most out.
8 of 36 queens work here
at 8 ft deep by 8 ft high, with 24 in to walk past
A spare room
Nine feet deep. Enough for a queen if you pick on projection rather than on looks.
17 of 36 queens work here
at 9 ft deep by 8 ft high, with 24 in to walk past
A main room
Ten feet and a nine foot ceiling. Almost everything works, so the choice moves to what the room does in the daytime.
35 of 36 queens work here
at 10 ft deep by 9 ft high, with 24 in to walk past
Browse
Or start from the job it has to do
Useful once you know your measurements. Every count below is the number of models that page actually lists.
Or check your own measurements against every bed at once.
The calculator runs your room depth and ceiling height against every model we hold and shows the ones that fail as well as the ones that fit, with the reason each one gave.
Open the room-fit calculatorBy maker
Every maker we track
What each one builds, what it costs, and how much of its own specification it is willing to publish.
Lori Beds3 models, from $2,159Easy DIY Murphy Bed4 models, from $189
Expand Furniture22 models, from $3,145
Bestar6 models, from $750
BredaBeds7 models, from $1,256
Wilding Wallbeds8 models, from $319
Resource Furniture9 models, from $7,600
Night & Day Furniture4 models
Murphy Door5 models, from $990
Murphy Bed Depot5 models, from $1,498Read first
If you would rather be walked through it
The database answers what fits. These answer what to do about it.
- What they actually costPrice bands across the database, kits through to Italian systems
- Piston against springWhat the lift changes day to day, and what our data shows
- Choosing the mattressThickness and weight are hard limits, not preferences
- Building your ownWhat a kit includes and what the cabinet really costs
Every figure here traces to the maker that published it, and carries the date we read it.
Across 73 models we look for 934 individual figures and the makers publish 618 of them. Where a maker publishes nothing we leave the cell blank and say so, rather than filling the gap.
How we verify