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Expand Furniture Revolving Bookcase Italian Wall Bed
Revolving face carries a bookcase and a sliding table. Closed depth of 25 inches includes the shelves and the closed table. Includes an Italian memory foam mattress. Combined sleeping capacity is stated as 440 lbs.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| queen | vertical | 71.5" | 86.5" | 25" | 96.85" | $6,495 |
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 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.
- You want the wall to earn its keep, with storage flanking the bed rather than a blank cabinet face.
Look elsewhere if
- You want a choice of sizes. This model is offered in queen only.
- 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.
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 Revolving Bookcase Italian Wall Bed. 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 rating is given, which matters because the counterbalance is tuned to a range rather than to any mattress.
- 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 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
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.
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.
Closest alternative on price
The nearest model to this one on price is the Expand Furniture MurphySofa Clean Horizontal Full at $6,495 against $6,495, a difference of $0. They are not the same kind of product, so the table below is the honest comparison.
| Compared on | Revolving Bookcase Italian Wall Bed | MurphySofa Clean Horizontal Full |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $6,495 | $6,495 |
| Type | Finished bed | Finished bed |
| Mount | wall | wall |
| Mechanism | piston | piston |
| Furthest into the room | 96.85" | 61.5" |
| Max mattress thickness | — | 10" |
| Sizes | queen | full |
Full specs for the Expand Furniture MurphySofa Clean Horizontal Full