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Easy DIY Murphy Bed DIY Murphy Bed Hardware Kit - Horizontal
The listed price is a sale price (regular $289). Hardware and plans only: you build the cabinet from plywood, so finished cabinet dimensions depend on your build.
Specs
| Type | Hardware kit |
| Mount | wall |
| Mechanism | piston |
| Max mattress thickness | — |
| Max mattress weight | — |
| Mattress included | No |
| Assembly time | — |
| Materials | — |
| Made in | — |
| Warranty | Lifetime warranty |
Sizes and dimensions
| Size | Orientation | Width | Height (closed) | Depth (closed) | Depth (open) | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| twin | horizontal | — | — | — | — | $189 |
| full | horizontal | — | — | — | — | $189 |
| queen | horizontal | — | — | — | — | $189 |
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
- Your ceiling is low or the wall is wide and short, which is exactly where a horizontal bed wins.
- 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 need a king. This model is not offered in one.
- 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.
- You do not own a saw and do not want to borrow one. A kit is a mechanism plus plans, and the cabinet is entirely yours to build.
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 3 of them for the DIY Murphy Bed Hardware Kit - Horizontal. The 3 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: maximum mattress thickness. Which means there is no published ceiling on mattress thickness, and a mattress that is too deep stops the cabinet closing flush.
- Not published: the mattress weight window. Which means the mattress weight window is unstated, so there is no way to check a heavy latex or hybrid mattress against the lift before buying it.
- Not published: assembly time. Which means the maker offers no estimate of how long this takes to put together, which is worth asking if you are paying somebody by the hour.
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.
Underestimating the cabinet build
The hardware is the straightforward part. The cabinet is several sheets of plywood, square cuts and a finish, and it is the part that decides whether the result looks built in or homemade.
Anchoring into drywall alone
A wall mounted bed transfers real load into the wall. Studs or solid blocking are not optional, and finding them before delivery day saves an unhappy afternoon.
Closest alternative on price
The nearest model to this one on price is the Wilding Wallbeds D-200 Murphy Desk Bed Kit at $319 against $189, a difference of $130. They are not the same kind of product, so the table below is the honest comparison.
| Compared on | DIY Murphy Bed Hardware Kit - Horizontal | D-200 Murphy Desk Bed Kit |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $189 | $319 |
| Type | Hardware kit | Hardware kit |
| Mount | wall | wall |
| Mechanism | piston | piston |
| Furthest into the room | — | 67" |
| Max mattress thickness | — | — |
| Sizes | twin, full, queen | queen |
Full specs for the Wilding Wallbeds D-200 Murphy Desk Bed Kit