Murphy Door Murphy Bed (Bed Only)
The bed alone with no flanking cabinetry, which is the cheapest way into the range. 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
| 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" | — | — |
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 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.
- 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.
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 (Bed Only). 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 range is published, and a mattress outside the range either drifts open on its own or takes real effort to lift.
- 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: country of manufacture. Which means no country of origin appears anywhere on the page, so lead times and tariffs are both unknowable from it.
- 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 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 (Bed Only) | 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