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Murphy Bed Depot St Augustine Bed
A plain 15 inch deep cabinet with a 6 inch baseboard notch so it sits flush against a skirted wall. Depot recommends 96 inches of ceiling clearance for installation, six more than the cabinet is tall.
Specs
| Type | Finished bed |
| Mount | wall |
| Mechanism | — |
| Max mattress thickness | — |
| Max mattress weight | — |
| Mattress included | No |
| Assembly time | — |
| Materials | 3/4 inch commercial-strength particle board with a thermally fused melamine surface |
| Made in | USA |
| Warranty | Lifetime warranty on the mechanism and frame, 5-year limited warranty on wood parts |
Sizes and dimensions
| Size | Orientation | Width | Height (closed) | Depth (closed) | Depth (open) | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| queen | vertical | 66" | 90" | 15" | 90" | $1,498 |
Configurations and what each costs
Murphy Bed Depot sells this cabinet 2 ways. The prices below are the cheapest published figure for each, so they compare like with like.
| Configuration | Width | From |
|---|---|---|
| Bed only | 66" | $1,498 |
| With two side cabinets | 96" | $2,198 |
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 wall to earn its keep, with storage flanking the bed rather than a blank cabinet face.
Look elsewhere if
- You care how the lift is engineered. This maker does not say what mechanism is inside.
- 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.
What Murphy Bed Depot publishes, and what it does not
We track 14 figures on a finished bed before calling a record complete. Murphy Bed Depot publishes 10 of them for the St Augustine 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: the lift mechanism. Which means without knowing the mechanism you cannot ask the right warranty question, because pistons are replaced as sealed units and springs are re-tensioned.
- Not published: maximum mattress thickness. Which means there is no published ceiling on mattress thickness, and a mattress that is too deep stops the cabinet closing flush.
- Not published: the mattress weight window. Which means the mattress weight window is unstated, so there is no way to check a heavy latex or hybrid mattress against the lift before buying it.
- Not published: assembly time. Which means assembly time is unstated, and on a wall-mounted bed that is the difference between an afternoon and a weekend.
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 90 inches here. Add walking room on top of that before deciding it fits.
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.
Closest alternative on price
The nearest model to this one on price is the BredaBeds Penthouse Murphy Bed at $1,504 against $1,498, a difference of $6. They are not the same kind of product, so the table below is the honest comparison.
| Compared on | St Augustine Bed | Penthouse Murphy Bed |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $1,498 | $1,504 |
| Type | Finished bed | Finished bed |
| Mount | wall | wall |
| Mechanism | — | spring |
| Furthest into the room | 90" | — |
| Max mattress thickness | — | 13" |
| Sizes | queen | twin, twin-xl, full, queen, king |
Full specs for the BredaBeds Penthouse Murphy Bed