Comments on: MODERNIST MURPHY BEDS

By: Lane Larsen

Lane Larsen — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:43:17 +0000

Need to see how long it will take to get to US and also if you sale wholesale to conractors. What is your pricing?

By: Judith Kuppersmith

Judith Kuppersmith — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:45:04 +0000

I want a wall bed for my downsizing apartment. I want the clean, new look you have and I want the bed to be for everyday use–I have a very good foam mattress that is queen size that I want to use. Is this bed attached to the wall and can you send it to NYC? What is the mechanism? Can I electrify it for up and down as I am ageing and hoping to keep my small apartment in my old age. I want it to be real easy to open and close. I want to surround the wall that it is on with my books. I am an almost retired academic–lots of books. Will I be totally comfy on such a bed–slats as opposed to solid wood base which is what my mattress is on now. Can this be made with a solid wood base? Thanks

By: Candice

Candice — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:07:00 +0000

I designed this murphy bed for a client…..he never complained about the bed and said it felt like any other bed he had slept on in the past. I bought him a Sterns and foster firm.

By: Karl

Karl — Tue, 21 Jun 2005 08:50:00 +0000

The only problem with the kind of system you suggest is that stuff is going to be moving around when you put up or take down the bed. I wouldn’t trust a vase on a swivel platform even if the vase were perfectly centered. Those things just never work right. Another point is that I’m in California, 2 pictures w/ frames broke just last week from earthquakes. Swivel shelving would be a bit of a bad idea in that case.

I think that the Murphy with the shelving is perfect for a guest bed. Simple enough to pull right out, but convenient enough to be able to store a couple things. My guest room always looks like crap until 1 day before the guest arrives because I have no place to store my stuff. The shelving Murphy is perfect for me.

Now I just need to find a mattress for a Murphy that doesn’t feel like sleeping on chicken wire.

By: t.

t. — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:23:00 +0000

I wonder if that converting bed/bookshelf unit has some clever mechanism to keep the shelves horizontal to the ground as it’s lowered, or if it’s just such a complete pain in the arse that the shelving would remain unused?

It’d be fairly easy to rig something like that up – the only problem would be the extra weight of the shelf contents when lifting the thing back into the ‘daytime’ position.