Murphy Door Murphy Bed with Desk
The maker recommends a coil spring or spring foam hybrid mattress at 10 inches and advises against full memory foam on weight grounds. No dimension table is published on this page. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| queen | vertical | — | — | — | — | $3,870 |
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 lift to feel light and even, and you would rather not re-tension anything.
- The room is an office on weekdays and a guest room at weekends.
Look elsewhere if
- 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.
- 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 7 of them for the Murphy Bed with Desk. The 7 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 assembly time is unstated, and on a wall-mounted bed that is the difference between an afternoon and a weekend.
- Not published: country of manufacture. Which means the country of manufacture is not stated.
- Not published: cabinet width. Which means no width is published, which makes it impossible to plan what sits either side of the bed.
Also absent from the manufacturer's documentation for this model: cabinet height, closed depth, open depth.
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
Leaving tall things on the desk
A stay level desk keeps the surface horizontal as the bed comes down, but the clearance above it is finite. Monitors and lamps usually have to come off.
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 Expand Furniture Compatto Horizontal Twin Bed with Fold Away Desk at $3,675 against $3,870, a difference of $195. They are not the same kind of product, so the table below is the honest comparison.
| Compared on | Murphy Bed with Desk | Compatto Horizontal Twin Bed with Fold Away Desk |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $3,870 | $3,675 |
| Type | Finished bed | Finished bed |
| Mount | wall | wall |
| Mechanism | piston | piston |
| Furthest into the room | — | 41.5" |
| Max mattress thickness | 11" | 6" |
| Sizes | queen | twin |
Full specs for the Expand Furniture Compatto Horizontal Twin Bed with Fold Away Desk