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Easy DIY Murphy Bed California King Murphy Bed Hardware Kit
This kit is for a California king mattress (72 by 84 inches), listed under king in our tables since they are close cousins. The listed price is a sale price.
Specs
| Type | Hardware kit |
| Mount | wall |
| Mechanism | piston |
| Max mattress thickness | 12" |
| Max mattress weight | 85 lbs |
| Mattress included | No |
| Assembly time | — |
| Materials | — |
| Made in | — |
| Warranty | — |
Sizes and dimensions
| Size | Orientation | Width | Height (closed) | Depth (closed) | Depth (open) | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| king | vertical | — | — | — | — | $349 |
Specs read from the manufacturer's documentation on 2026-08-22. A — means the manufacturer does not publish that number. Will it fit your room? Run the room-fit calculator.
Who this suits
Worth a look if
- You are not willing to trade down in bed size to buy back floor space.
- Budget is the binding constraint and you want the cheapest honest route to a folding bed.
- You would rather spend the budget on hardware than on finished furniture, and you are willing to build the cabinet.
- You have a wall you can drill into and want the cabinet held flat and solid against it.
Look elsewhere if
- You cannot make holes in the wall. This one is designed to be anchored to it.
- You expected a mattress in the price. Budget for one on top of the figures in the table.
- You need to settle room fit on paper before committing. The maker does not publish how far this one reaches into the room, so measuring means seeing one.
What Easy DIY Murphy Bed publishes, and what it does not
We track 6 figures on a hardware kit before calling a record complete. Easy DIY Murphy Bed publishes 4 of them for the California King Murphy Bed Hardware Kit. The 2 it leaves out are worth knowing before you buy, because each one is a decision you will end up making without the maker's help.
- Not published: assembly time. Which means no assembly time is given, so plan for most of a day and a second pair of hands.
- Not published: the warranty term. Which means no warranty term is published, which matters most on the mechanism rather than the cabinet.
We leave these blank rather than estimating them. A — in our tables is always a gap in the manufacturer's own documentation, never a number we chose not to look up.
What people get wrong with this one
Trusting the carton dimensions
Where assembled dimensions are not published, the figures that circulate are usually shipping carton sizes lifted from a spec sheet. A carton is not a cabinet, and the two differ by inches in both directions.
Skipping the warranty question
No term is published for this model. The cabinet is rarely what fails, so ask specifically what the mechanism is covered for and for how long, which is the part under load every day.
Forgetting the bed has to tilt through the ceiling
A vertical bed swings up through an arc, so it needs slightly more headroom than the closed cabinet height suggests. Sloped ceilings and low light fittings are the usual casualties.
Closest alternative on price
The nearest model to this one on price is the Easy DIY Murphy Bed King Murphy Bed Hardware Kit at $349 against $349, a difference of $0. They are not the same kind of product, so the table below is the honest comparison.
| Compared on | California King Murphy Bed Hardware Kit | King Murphy Bed Hardware Kit |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $349 | $349 |
| Type | Hardware kit | Hardware kit |
| Mount | wall | wall |
| Mechanism | piston | piston |
| Furthest into the room | — | — |
| Max mattress thickness | 12" | 12" |
| Sizes | king | king |
Full specs for the Easy DIY Murphy Bed King Murphy Bed Hardware Kit