Murphy Beds – The Ideal Wall Bed Solution
Murphy bed – a North American term only – or wall bed, is a bed that is hinged at one end to store vertically against the wall. Then bed is then hidden by a door or a cabinet. The mattress is attached to the bed frame with plastic straps and the frame is hinged to the floor. The foot of the frame then attaches to the top of the wall with a hook.
Wallbeds are used for space-saving purposes, much like a trundle bed is. Most wall beds do not have box springs. Instead, the mattress usually lies on a wood platform or wire mesh.
Murphy beds are popular where square footage is limited, such as small homes, apartments and college dormitories. They can be constructed anywhere in a small space and with the different design combination can multitask as shelving units and home office space.
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Murphy beds have evolved into full units which include options such as lighting, storage cabinets and certain small office components.
Modern wallbeds include horizontal-oriented beds that flip up from the side and even bunk wallbeds for optimizing limited space. A piston-lift mechanism makes modern wallbeds easy to lower and raise.
With Murphy Wallbeds, the mattress says flat and is not folded, so a good quality ,mattress can be used instead of the lesser quality used in the traditional fold out – hide-a-bed.
William Lawrence Murphy (1876–1959) applied for a patent for the Murphy bed on April 1, 1916 and was granted Design Patent D49,273 on June 27, 1916. Murphy started the Murphy Wall Bed Company and began production in San Francisco. In January 1990 the company changed its name to the “Murphy Bed Co. Inc.”
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