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Expand Furniture Compatto Italian Revolving Wall Bed Single
The face revolves to swap a desk for the bed. Takes a European single mattress of 76.8 x 33.5 inches, which is shorter and narrower than a US twin, and one is included. Recorded as twin because the schema has no European single.
Specs
| Type | Finished bed |
| Mount | wall |
| Mechanism | piston |
| Max mattress thickness | — |
| Max mattress weight | — |
| Mattress included | Yes |
| Assembly time | — |
| Materials | — |
| Made in | Italy |
| Warranty | 5 year hardware warranty |
Sizes and dimensions
| Size | Orientation | Width | Height (closed) | Depth (closed) | Depth (open) | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| twin | vertical | 43.5" | 86.5" | 21.5" | 96.85" | $4,980 |
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
- You want the lift to feel light and even, and you would rather not re-tension anything.
- The room is an office on weekdays and a guest room at weekends.
- You would rather not run a separate mattress search on top of choosing the bed.
- The room is genuinely small and a smaller mattress is enough for how often the bed gets used.
Look elsewhere if
- You cannot make holes in the wall. This one is designed to be anchored to it.
- You need a king. This model is not offered in one.
- You want a choice of sizes. This model is offered in twin 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 10 of them for the Compatto Italian Revolving Wall Bed Single. The 4 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 the thickness limit is absent, which is the specification that most often sends a mattress back after delivery.
- 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 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.
- 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
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.
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.
Leaving tall things on the desk
A stay level desk keeps the surface horizontal as the bed comes down, but the clearance above it is finite. Monitors and lamps usually have to come off.
Closest alternative on price
The nearest model to this one on price is the Expand Furniture Cabinet Bed at $4,895 against $4,980, a difference of $85. They are not the same kind of product, so the table below is the honest comparison.
| Compared on | Compatto Italian Revolving Wall Bed Single | Cabinet Bed |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $4,980 | $4,895 |
| Type | Finished bed | Finished bed |
| Mount | wall | freestanding |
| Mechanism | piston | piston |
| Furthest into the room | 96.85" | 82" |
| Max mattress thickness | — | — |
| Sizes | twin | queen |
Full specs for the Expand Furniture Cabinet Bed