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Expand Furniture Compatto Horizontal Twin Bed with Fold Away Desk
The desk folds away rather than staying level, and opens out 21.25 inches. Includes a twin-single memory foam mattress of 78.75 x 35.5 inches. Closed depth of 11.5 inches is the bed alone.
Specs
| Type | Finished bed |
| Mount | wall |
| Mechanism | piston |
| Max mattress thickness | 6" |
| Max mattress weight | — |
| Mattress included | Yes |
| Assembly time | — |
| Materials | — |
| Made in | Italy |
| Warranty | 5 year warranty on mechanics |
Sizes and dimensions
| Size | Orientation | Width | Height (closed) | Depth (closed) | Depth (open) | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| twin | horizontal | 85" | 42" | 11.5" | 41.5" | $3,675 |
Specs read from the manufacturer's documentation on 2026-08-26. 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.
- You want it to turn up as furniture rather than as a woodworking project.
- You have a wall you can drill into and want the cabinet held flat and solid against it.
- You want the lift to feel light and even, and you would rather not re-tension anything.
Look elsewhere if
- You need a king. This model is not offered in one.
- You want a choice of sizes. This model is offered in twin only.
- You cannot make holes in the wall. This one is designed to be anchored to it.
What Expand Furniture publishes, and what it does not
We track 14 figures on a finished bed before calling a record complete. Expand Furniture publishes 11 of them for the Compatto Horizontal Twin Bed with Fold Away Desk. 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: the mattress weight window. Which means no weight range is published, and a mattress outside the range either drifts open on its own or takes real effort to lift.
- 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: panel materials. Which means the panel construction is unstated, which is what decides whether the cabinet still looks square in ten years.
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
Treating a sale price as the price
This category runs near permanent promotions, and the figure in our table is what the manufacturer showed on the date we checked. Confirm the current price before you budget around it.
Measuring the wall and forgetting the floor
The cabinet is the easy measurement. The one that catches people is how far the bed reaches into the room once it is down, which is 41.5 inches here. Add walking room on top of that before deciding it fits.
Buying the mattress first
Murphy beds cap mattress thickness because the mattress has to fold into the cabinet with the bed. This one stops at 6 inches. A mattress bought before the bed is the most common expensive mistake in this category.
Closest alternative on price
The nearest model to this one on price is the Expand Furniture Hover Compact Wall Bed Queen at $3,595 against $3,675, a difference of $80. They are not the same kind of product, so the table below is the honest comparison.
| Compared on | Compatto Horizontal Twin Bed with Fold Away Desk | Hover Compact Wall Bed Queen |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $3,675 | $3,595 |
| Type | Finished bed | Finished bed |
| Mount | wall | wall |
| Mechanism | piston | piston |
| Furthest into the room | 41.5" | 86" |
| Max mattress thickness | 6" | — |
| Sizes | twin | queen |
Full specs for the Expand Furniture Hover Compact Wall Bed Queen