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Expand Furniture Italian Horizontal Wall Bed Sofa
Folds over the couch, so it suits rooms a vertical bed cannot fit. Depth with the sofa in front is 39.5 inches against 11.5 for the bed alone, and the sofa figure is the one your room has to clear. Bookcase shelving sits above.
Specs
| Type | Finished bed |
| Mount | wall |
| Mechanism | piston |
| Max mattress thickness | 7" |
| Max mattress weight | — |
| Mattress included | No |
| Assembly time | — |
| Materials | — |
| Made in | Italy |
| Warranty | 5 year hardware warranty |
Sizes and dimensions
| Size | Orientation | Width | Height (closed) | Depth (closed) | Depth (open) | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| queen | horizontal | 85" | 70" | 11.5" | 68.5" | $6,295 |
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
- The room has to work as a living room by day, and you do not want to shift furniture to open the bed.
- You want the wall to earn its keep, with storage flanking the bed rather than a blank cabinet face.
- 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.
Look elsewhere if
- You need a king. This model is not offered in one.
- Price is the binding constraint. This sits at the upper end of what we track.
- You want a choice of sizes. This model is offered in queen only.
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 Italian Horizontal Wall Bed Sofa. 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 rating is given, which matters because the counterbalance is tuned to a range rather than to any mattress.
- 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 material is not stated, and particleboard and plywood age very differently under a bed that folds twice a day.
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
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 68.5 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 7 inches. A mattress bought before the bed is the most common expensive mistake in this category.
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 Expand Furniture MurphySofa Clean Queen at $6,195 against $6,295, a difference of $100. They are not the same kind of product, so the table below is the honest comparison.
| Compared on | Italian Horizontal Wall Bed Sofa | MurphySofa Clean Queen |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $6,295 | $6,195 |
| Type | Finished bed | Finished bed |
| Mount | wall | wall |
| Mechanism | piston | piston |
| Furthest into the room | 68.5" | 84.5" |
| Max mattress thickness | 7" | 10" |
| Sizes | queen | queen |
Full specs for the Expand Furniture MurphySofa Clean Queen