Murphy Door Horizontal Murphy Bed
Folds sideways, which the maker says needs only about 55 to 60 inches of ceiling clearance and suits 8 foot ceilings. Offered in twin and queen, priced separately, and the twin is the cheaper way in.
Specs
| Type | Finished bed |
| Mount | wall |
| Mechanism | piston |
| Max mattress thickness | 11" |
| Max mattress weight | — |
| Mattress included | No |
| Assembly time | — |
| Materials | Wooden bed box with structural steel hardware |
| Made in | — |
| Warranty | 5 year coverage on the piston mechanism, frame, hardware and structural steel |
Sizes and dimensions
| Size | Orientation | Width | Height (closed) | Depth (closed) | Depth (open) | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| twin | horizontal | 81" | 45" | 17.5" | — | $2,490 |
| twin-xl | horizontal | 86" | 45" | 17.5" | — | — |
| full | horizontal | 81" | 60.5" | 17.5" | — | — |
| queen | horizontal | 86" | 66.5" | 17.5" | — | — |
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 cannot make holes in the wall. This one is designed to be anchored to it.
- You expected a mattress in the price. Budget for one on top of the figures in the table.
- You need a king. This model is not offered in one.
What Murphy Door publishes, and what it does not
We track 14 figures on a finished bed before calling a record complete. Murphy Door publishes 10 of them for the Horizontal Murphy 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 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 no assembly time is given, so plan for most of a day and a second pair of hands.
- Not published: country of manufacture. Which means the country of manufacture is not stated.
- Not published: open depth. Which means the open depth is absent, and without it no room-fit calculation is possible at all.
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
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 11 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.
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 Lori Beds The Lori Bed at $2,719 against $2,490, a difference of $229. They are not the same kind of product, so the table below is the honest comparison.
| Compared on | Horizontal Murphy Bed | The Lori Bed |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $2,490 | $2,719 |
| Type | Finished bed | Finished bed |
| Mount | wall | wall |
| Mechanism | piston | piston |
| Furthest into the room | — | 86.5" |
| Max mattress thickness | 11" | 10" |
| Sizes | twin, twin-xl, full, queen | queen, twin |
Full specs for the Lori Beds The Lori Bed