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Murphy Door Horizontal Murphy Bed Queen

Folds sideways, which the maker says needs only about 55 to 60 inches of ceiling clearance and suits 8 foot ceilings. Patented gas-piston pull-down mechanism machined in house, counterbalanced to the mattress weight and rated to 600 lbs. Takes a standard mattress up to 11 inches with no box spring, and the mattress is not included. The maker gives the open depth only as an approximation in prose rather than a specification, so we leave it blank rather than record a rounded marketing figure. The published price is a single starting figure with size selected as an option, and it is recorded here against the smallest size offered.

Specs

TypeFinished bed
Mountwall
Mechanismpiston
Max mattress thickness11"
Max mattress weight
Mattress includedNo
Assembly time
MaterialsWooden bed box with structural steel hardware
Made in
Warranty5 year coverage on the piston mechanism, frame, hardware and structural steel

Sizes and dimensions

SizeOrientationWidthHeight (closed)Depth (closed)Depth (open)Price
twinhorizontal81"45"17.5"$2,490
twin-xlhorizontal86"45"17.5"
fullhorizontal81"60.5"17.5"
queenhorizontal86"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

  • The room is genuinely small and a smaller mattress is enough for how often the bed gets used.
  • 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.

Look elsewhere if

  • You need to settle room fit on paper before committing. The maker does not publish how far this one reaches into the room, so measuring means seeing one.
  • 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.

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 Queen. 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.

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

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.

Ordering before anyone has measured the open bed

The maker does not publish how far this one reaches into the room, and that is the number room fit turns on. Ask the dealer for the open depth in writing before you order, not after.

Closest alternative on price

The nearest model to this one on price is the BredaBeds Penthouse Murphy Bed with Hutches at $2,420 against $2,490, a difference of $70. They are not the same kind of product, so the table below is the honest comparison.

Compared onHorizontal Murphy Bed QueenPenthouse Murphy Bed with Hutches
Price from$2,490$2,420
TypeFinished bedFinished bed
Mountwallwall
Mechanismpistonspring
Furthest into the room
Max mattress thickness11"13"
Sizestwin, twin-xl, full, queentwin, twin-xl, full, queen, king

Full specs for the BredaBeds Penthouse Murphy Bed with Hutches

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