Murphy Door Murphy Bed
The bed alone with no flanking cabinetry, which is the cheapest finished bed Murphy Door sells, though its hardware kit is cheaper still.
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 | vertical | 45" | 81.5" | 17.5" | — | $1,290 |
| full | vertical | 61" | 81.5" | 17.5" | — | — |
| queen | vertical | 67" | 86.5" | 17.5" | — | — |
| king | vertical | 83" | 86.5" | 17.5" | — | — |
Configurations and what each costs
Murphy Door sells this cabinet 4 ways. The prices below are the cheapest published figure for each, so they compare like with like.
| Configuration | Width | From |
|---|---|---|
| Bed only | 45" | $1,290 |
| With left cabinet | 45" | $1,800 |
| With right cabinet | 45" | $1,800 |
| With left and right cabinets | 45" | $3,150 |
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 the wall to earn its keep, with storage flanking the bed rather than a blank cabinet face.
- The room is genuinely small and a smaller mattress is enough for how often the bed gets used.
- You are not willing to trade down in bed size to buy back floor space.
- You want it to turn up as furniture rather than as a woodworking project.
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 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.
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 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 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 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 missing, which is the single number that decides whether the bed fits the room.
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
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.
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.
Closest alternative on price
The nearest model to this one on price is the BredaBeds Metropolitan Murphy Bed at $1,360 against $1,290, a difference of $70. They are not the same kind of product, so the table below is the honest comparison.
| Compared on | Murphy Bed | Metropolitan Murphy Bed |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $1,290 | $1,360 |
| Type | Finished bed | Finished bed |
| Mount | wall | wall |
| Mechanism | piston | spring |
| Furthest into the room | — | — |
| Max mattress thickness | 11" | 13" |
| Sizes | twin, full, queen, king | twin, twin-xl, full, queen, king |
Full specs for the BredaBeds Metropolitan Murphy Bed