How to Choose the Best Murphy Bed for Your Home

What makes a Murphy Bed a good choice? 

A good Murphy Bed should help your room do more than one job without sacrificing comfort, safety, or style. It should be easy to open and close, work with a proper mattress, and feel stable enough for regular use.

When comparing Murphy Beds online, look beyond the cabinet style. The hardware system, weight rating, mattress compatibility, wall attachment requirements, warranty and replacement-part support all matter. A Murphy Bed is furniture, but it is also a moving system. The quality of that system is what helps it work safely and smoothly over time.

These days, plenty of online shops are selling wall beds, but how can you tell if they are of good quality? There are a few factors to consider, including customer service, warranties, whether the mechanisms have patents, and, of course, the history of the manufacturer.

What to compare before buying a Murphy Bed online

Large online retailers and big-box furniture stores can be useful places to browse styles and compare prices. The challenge is that many wall beds look similar in photos, even when the hardware, support and long-term durability are very different.

Before buying, ask a few practical questions:

• What type of lift mechanism does the bed use?
• What is the weight rating?
• What mattress size and thickness will work?
• Does the bed need to be attached to the wall?
• What warranty is included?
• Are replacement parts available?
• Can you speak with someone who understands the product?
• Does the company specialize in Murphy Bed systems, or is this one item in a much larger furniture catalogue?  

These details matter because a Murphy Bed is opened, closed and slept on over many years. The right system should fit your room, support your mattress and feel easy to use every time.

Why our history matters

Our family has been designing and manufacturing Murphy Wall-Bed hardware systems for more than 45 years. We do this work because we believe in the product; we have seen Murphy Beds stand the test of time and evolve into the modern, elegant designs we offer today.

And, besides, we all love a good night’s sleep!

Here are a few reasons customers across Canada and the United States choose Murphy Wall-Beds.

Family-owned business

We are a family business with many long-tenured employees who care for each other and the products we create for your home.

Since the business launched in 1975, we have grown our offering to include residential and commercial products, seeing distribution across North America. Pop into a fire station or a dormitory, and you could find our space-saving Murphy Wall-Beds.

Hardware, cabinetry and support under one roof

We have two parts to our company: manufacturing and distributing the metal hardware kits used in the Murphy Beds’ and designing and creating the cabinetry elements.

Our team works personally with all the products we make and ship, evaluating the quality of the products sent from our home to yours.

There’s something special about choosing a product made by people who know it, use it and stand behind it.

Lifestyle décor savvy

Our team continually monitors design trends to ensure our Murphy Wall-Beds add a modern, elegant element to your space.

Keeping up on design, our team watches trends in:

• Cabinetry styles
• Finishes and colours
• Hardware elements
• Millwork (see our feature trim)  

We follow tons of interior designers, home architects, and home décor media across social media. We flip print and digital pages of magazines like Dwell, Sunset and Martha Stewart. Our wall beds have been featured on the Property Brothers, Drew Barrymore Show, and by lifestyle influencers. With our digital eyes on the pulse of design, we anticipate where and how we can update Murphy Wall-Beds to suit different style tastes.

Flexible customer service and support

We also recognize that some of our customers like to customize their own Murphy Wall-Beds fully, others not so much. We offer the option to purchase hardware only so you can build a Murphy Wall-Bed in any place or way that you can dream it.

We also take pride in our customer service. We offer a toll-free customer service line and an online chat tool (with humans on our side to help!).

We’ve also developed online videos that help guide you through each installation step.

Enough about us, we’d like to hear from you

Give us a call. We can personally answer your questions and help you decide, which Murphy Wall-Bed works for your space.

Try our Build-A-Bed app to test a few designs for your home, cabin, Airbnb or rental home. The design possibilities are endless!