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Wilding Wallbeds Total DIY Murphy Bed Kit

Every wood component arrives cut and milled, so you sand, finish and assemble rather than build from plywood. Bed handles are not included. Prices shown are the oak and alder tier. Cherry and mahogany run from $2,659 to $3,299. Side mount is not offered in king. Trim kits sell separately, and Wilding excludes these kits from its shipping promotions.

Specs

TypeHardware kit
Mountwall
Mechanism
Max mattress thickness
Max mattress weight
Mattress includedNo
Assembly time
MaterialsOak, alder, cherry or mahogany components cut and milled, with a powder coated steel mechanism and frame
Made in
Warranty

Sizes and dimensions

SizeOrientationWidthHeight (closed)Depth (closed)Depth (open)Price
twinvertical44.5"82.25"16"86"$2,175
fullvertical59.5"82.25"16"86"$2,395
queenvertical65.5"87.25"16"90"$2,395
kingvertical81.5"87.25"16"90"$2,909
twinhorizontal81.5"49.625"16"49"$2,395
fullhorizontal81.5"64.625"16"65.5"$2,625
queenhorizontal86.5"70.625"16"70.5"$2,625

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.
  • 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.
  • Your ceiling is low or the wall is wide and short, which is exactly where a horizontal bed wins.

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 care how the lift is engineered. This maker does not say what mechanism is inside.

What Wilding Wallbeds publishes, and what it does not

We track 6 figures on a hardware kit before calling a record complete. Wilding Wallbeds publishes 1 of them for the Total DIY Murphy Bed Kit. The 5 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.

Also absent from the manufacturer's documentation for this model: maximum mattress thickness.

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.

Skipping the warranty question

No term is published for this model. The cabinet is rarely what fails, so ask specifically what the mechanism is covered for and for how long, which is the part under load every day.

Closest alternative on price

The nearest model to this one on price is the Lori Beds YouLift 2.0 Bed at $2,159 against $2,175, a difference of $16. They are not the same kind of product, so the table below is the honest comparison.

Compared onTotal DIY Murphy Bed KitYouLift 2.0 Bed
Price from$2,175$2,159
TypeHardware kitFinished bed
Mountwallwall
Mechanismnone
Furthest into the room90"94.5"
Max mattress thickness12"
Sizestwin, full, queen, kingqueen

Full specs for the Lori Beds YouLift 2.0 Bed

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