Euro Murphy Bed

Great looking bed. A real space saver.

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

Very nice looking project

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I can picture this in my James Bond bachelor pad. At just the right moment, I sweep Pussy Galore off her feet and right onto the bed as it drops from the wall. :-)

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Nice looking furniture.

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Great looking bed. It is really nice to be able to get the bed out of the way when not in use. Thanks for posting.

God Bless
tom

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

Very nice looking bed. Great job.

-- Maplewood, MN

Hi Chris,

This is a nice looking piece of furniture.

Out of curiosity what is the largest bed that you can do this way?

thanks for the post.

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looks great!!! i could have used this in my first apartment!!!

-- Matt, Napa, CA...142 days to sanity...

That is very cool. I was looking to build one myself. Would you tell me where you bought the hardware?

-- Young Padiwan Woodworker

Not to hijack the thread, but in answer to the question where to buy the hardware…...

I have been looking at building one of these Murphy beds myself. Google it and you will find a lot of info…including Chris Davis’s site. The hardware is available in a number of places, and in a couple of different forms. Some use a spring spring box type, But I believe that Mr Davis uses the piston lift system. After looking at a lot of information I would say I like the piston system best…..bear in mind, I have never built one of these beds, ......yet.

Lee Valley carries both systems…....

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Scott,
The largest one that I’ve built has been a king and a cal. king. I don’t advertise that I build these because they are not counter balanced like the twin, full, and queen sizes.
Here is an example of the Cal. King

Here is a regular king

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Arcarius,
You asked where I get them. I use the piston lift design by create-a-bed. I sell the hardwear kit which includes: the cabinet locks that are controled by the legs, the leg hinges, pistons, piston mounting plates, pivot plates, bed stops, screws, paper instructions for both partical board and plywood construction, and a DVD. I sell it for $299 including shipping.

I did some research a few years ago when I started making Murphy beds and this system was the best and the most simple to build.

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Toyguy was correct. I didn’t read his post before my last post. A few weeks I did an install on the spring system for a moving company and had the chance to examine the spring loaded system. It is a more complex system it took me about 4 times as long to install. I had to cut the customers base molding, the way create-a-bed has designed it you don’t have to do that. I can install mine in the customers house in under 30 min.

The set from Lee Valley is the exact same one I use.

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Chris, Nice job… I’m looking to make one for a neighbor. Since her ceiling height is a problem (basement room), are there any problems that you know of to engineer it to drop sideways for a full sized mattress?

Tom

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Tom, no that is not a problem at all. I’ve build 10 or so of the sideways versions. There is a whole set of plans for them. See this link http://lumberjocks.com/projects/5011 on a write-up on one

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