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Expand Furniture Horizontal Italian Wall Bed Desk
Piston system rather than springs, and the maker says assembly runs 3 to 5 hours with two people. Fits a queen mattress 7.5 inches or under. The page publishes no cabinet dimensions, only the 77 lb desk weight limit.
Specs
| Type | Finished bed |
| Mount | wall |
| Mechanism | piston |
| Max mattress thickness | 7.5" |
| Max mattress weight | — |
| Mattress included | No |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| queen | horizontal | — | — | — | — | $5,995 |
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 expected a mattress in the price. Budget for one on top of the figures in the table.
- You sleep on a deep mattress. This one caps out at 7.5 inches.
- You need a king. This model is not offered in one.
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 7 of them for the Horizontal Italian Wall Bed Desk. The 7 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: cabinet width. Which means the cabinet width is missing, so you cannot check it against your wall.
- Not published: cabinet height. Which means the cabinet height is missing, so you cannot check it against your ceiling.
- Not published: closed depth. Which means the closed depth is absent, which is the figure that decides whether a door still opens past it.
- Not published: open depth. Which means the open depth is absent, and without it no room-fit calculation is possible at all.
Also absent from the manufacturer's documentation for this model: the mattress weight window, assembly time, panel materials.
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.
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 7.5 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 Stratus - Queen 2 Seat Sofa Wall Bed at $5,995 against $5,995, a difference of $0. They are not the same kind of product, so the table below is the honest comparison.
| Compared on | Horizontal Italian Wall Bed Desk | MurphySofa Stratus - Queen 2 Seat Sofa Wall Bed |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $5,995 | $5,995 |
| Type | Finished bed | Finished bed |
| Mount | wall | wall |
| Mechanism | piston | piston |
| Furthest into the room | — | 86" |
| Max mattress thickness | 7.5" | 10" |
| Sizes | queen | queen |
Full specs for the Expand Furniture MurphySofa Stratus - Queen 2 Seat Sofa Wall Bed