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Sideways Ross Murphy Bed

Project by Chris Davis posted 640 days ago 904 views 1 time favorited 8 comments Add to Favorites Watch

This is a Murphy bed that was completed on January 26, 2008. It is called The Ross. This is a style that I build often, but this is the first sideways version. Here is an upright version that I posted on Lumberjocks called Ross Murphy Bed.

It is built in oak with 2 24” bookcases. Most of the time I keep the two sides symmetrical. This customer chose to have two different style bookcase.

Recently I changed the Ross design and moved the legs from in the middle of the doors to the outside edge. This gave the piece a cleaner look.

See more at our website: www.wwbeds.com

Building Pictures
Building the Ross Murphy bed
Building picture of the bookcase.

-- Watch live video from our shop. http://wwbeds.com/live.htm


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RJones

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posted 640 days ago

Chris,
Awesome work!!! Did you create the bottom molding as well?? Do you have any pics of it pulled out??

-- http://rjoneswoodworks.com/

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Chris Davis

549 posts in 860 days


posted 640 days ago

RJones,
The bottom molding is 5 1/4” crown cut down to 5” to square the top edge. I don’t have any pictures of it open. I need to remember to take those pictures. Here is a picture of another sideways version open.
Sideways version open

-- Watch live video from our shop. http://wwbeds.com/live.htm

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Grant Davis

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posted 640 days ago

That looks sweet. I better not show this to my youngest daughter or dad will have a new project added to his list of “to do’s”

-- Grant...."GO BUCKEYES"

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GaryK

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posted 640 days ago

Very cool. I’m thinking of something like that for my daughters room.

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

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Critterman

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posted 640 days ago

I like it! Very cool the way it works sideways and gives you the bookcase as well. Excellent work.

-- Jim Hallada, Chesterfield, VA

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Grumpy

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posted 640 days ago

Gret job there Chris. Very practical use of space.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

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Scott Bryan

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posted 639 days ago

Hi Chris,

This is very nice project. You have taken an ordinary bed and made it into a piece of furniture.

Thanks for sharing.

-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.

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tenontim

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posted 517 days ago

Chris,
I saw this pop up on the Home page and I guess I hadn’t seen it before. I really like the design of the side ways, rather than upright design. As usual, this is a great piece of work, but I’m sure you could make a camp cot look good. Thanks for posting your work.

-- Tim -- http://tmuli.com

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