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Murphy Door Murphy Beds

Murphy Door is better known for hidden door bookcases, and its wall beds carry the same idea: a real wooden bed box rather than a metal frame, on a gas piston the company machines in house. The range is modular, starting from a bed-only unit you add side cabinets to.
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ModelStyleSizesMechanismMax mattressOpen depthWarrantyPrice
Murphy DoorMurphy Bed (Bed Only)Lowest price hereBed onlytwin, full, queen, kingpiston11" thick5 year coverage on the piston mechanism, frame, hardware and structural steel$1,290Check price
Murphy DoorHorizontal Murphy Bed TwinBed onlytwinpiston11" thick5 year coverage on the piston mechanism, frame, hardware and structural steel$1,370Check price
Murphy DoorMurphy Bed with Left CabinetSide cabinetstwin, full, queen, kingpiston11" thick5 year coverage on the piston mechanism, frame, hardware and structural steel$1,800Check price
Murphy DoorMurphy Bed with Right CabinetSide cabinetstwin, full, queen, kingpiston11" thick5 year coverage on the piston mechanism, frame, hardware and structural steel$1,800Check price
Murphy DoorHorizontal Murphy Bed QueenBed onlytwin, twin-xl, full, queenpiston11" thick5 year coverage on the piston mechanism, frame, hardware and structural steel$2,490Check price
Murphy DoorMurphy Bed with Left and Right CabinetsSide cabinetstwin, full, queen, kingpiston11" thick5 year coverage on the piston mechanism, frame, hardware and structural steel$3,150Check price
Murphy DoorMurphy Bed with DeskDeskqueenpiston11" thick5 year coverage on the piston mechanism, frame, hardware and structural steel$3,870Check price
Murphy DoorMedia Console Murphy BedShelvingqueenpiston11" thick5 year coverage on the piston mechanism, frame, hardware and structural steel$4,480Check price

Specs read from manufacturer pages. Each bed's page lists its source and check date. “—” means not yet sourced, never guessed. Any “lowest price” or “least floor space” label is arithmetic on the column above, not a paid placement.

The range, in numbers

We track 9 models from Murphy Door, split between 8 finished beds and 1 hardware kit, running from $990 to $4,480. Sizes offered across the range: twin, full, queen, king, twin-xl. Every model we track uses a piston lift.

How much Murphy Door actually publishes

Across those 9 models we look for 118 separate figures, and Murphy Door publishes 75 of them. That is the number worth knowing before you shortlist a maker, because a spec the manufacturer never states is one you end up chasing by phone.

These are missing on every single model in the range, so it is a house policy rather than an oversight on one product page:

  • the mattress weight window
  • assembly time

Within the range the Murphy Bed (Bed Only) is the best documented and the Media Console Murphy Bed the thinnest, so if you want to compare on paper rather than in a showroom, start with the former.

How Murphy Door compares with the rest of the market

On average price across everything each maker publishes, Murphy Door is the 5th cheapest of the 8 makers in our database that publish prices at all, undercutting 3 of them. The maker sitting closest to it on price is Bestar, about $37 apart on average, which makes it the obvious cross-shop. On documentation Murphy Door publishes 64% of the figures we look for, against 70% across the database as a whole, so it is less forthcoming than the category average.

Nothing in its range comes with sofa, table, which the full database covers.

Living with a Murphy Door murphy bed

Mattress depth is the constraint you meet first. Across this range the limit is 11 inches on every model that states one. Measure the mattress you own before you assume it transfers, because a mattress that is too deep stops the cabinet closing flush and there is no adjusting around it. No model here comes with a mattress, so add that to every price in the table above.

These are fixed to the structure of the room, so installation needs studs or solid blocking and is worth confirming before delivery day. Prices are published, so you can compare this range against others without contacting anyone. Warranty across the range: 5 year coverage on the piston mechanism, frame, hardware and structural steel.

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What to ask Murphy Door before ordering

Every gap in the tables above is a question somebody has to answer eventually, and it is cheaper to ask now than after delivery. These are the ones this maker leaves open across its whole range, so take them to a salesperson and get the answers in writing.

  • What is the mattress weight window on the model I am ordering, and can you put that in the order confirmation?
  • What is assembly time on the model I am ordering, and can you put that in the order confirmation?

How readily a maker answers these is information in itself. The ones that quote a figure without hesitating tend to be the ones that publish it in the first place.

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