Murphy bed style

[sierramist03]

With our current guest room needing to be a nursery. my craft will have to hold the queen size bed instead of a daybed.

Since we only have visitors a few times a year we want to leave it as a craft room. The room isn't a big enough to leave the bed out all the time. We were thinking about building a Murphy bed style bed without the mechanism since we still want to use the box spring and frame we have. (I'm also afraid my dad may break a true Murphy bed)
Has anybody done this or seen something similar? It will need to be horizontal rather than vertical though.

[mrs.jacinthe]

I'm not understanding what you mean by "without the mechanism" and using it with your current bed frame. What are you envisioning?

A true Murphy bed has plenty of support so I don't know how it would get broken. We've been eyeballing this kit for a while: www.rockler.com/deluxe-murphy-bed-kits-side-mount

[sierramist03]

It a rental for starters so we cant really going drilling huge holes in the wall and it's always not a forever home so we likely won't need to after this house. Second we don't want to spend the hundreds of dollars on the mechanism part because again we aren't sure how long we will need it.

Basically we just want a box to store the mattress in with sliding doors or swing doors. We are basically having trouble with the door idea.

[bunnymendelbaum]

mrs.jacinthe - There is a Rockler Store about 1 mile from me. I didn't even know they had real stores. I almost wrecked my car when I saw it! Hardware nerd alert!

[mrs.jacinthe]

Ahh, ok.

Cabinet beds usually have false doors (they're just decorative on the back of the mattress platform). Do they have to be functional?

[mrs.jacinthe]

Sept 29, 2014 10:53:21 GMT -5 bunnymendelbaum said:

mrs.jacinthe - There is a Rockler Store about 1 mile from me. I didn't even know they had real stores. I almost wrecked my car when I saw it! Hardware nerd alert!

R LOVES the Rockler store.  He's been known to plan trips to include them.  LOL  It's like woodworking nirvana.

[sierramist03]

Sept 29, 2014 11:02:52 GMT -5 mrs.jacinthe said:

Ahh, ok.

Cabinet beds usually have false doors (they're just decorative on the back of the mattress platform). Do they have to be functional?

No they don't . If the room was a foot bigger this wouldn't be a big deal.

[mrspez07]

The daybed I had in college had a trundle that would pop up level with the day bed to make a space as big as a queen bed. You just have no "headboard" for it and toy would have to climb over the trundle half to get into bed (like a queen against a wall).
Would that work?

[sierramist03]

Sept 29, 2014 22:52:57 GMT -5 mrspez07 said:

The daybed I had in college had a trundle that would pop up level with the day bed to make a space as big as a queen bed. You just have no "headboard" for it and toy would have to climb over the trundle half to get into bed (like a queen against a wall).
Would that work?

We have a daybed with trundle that will be in the nursery but we really need both beds

[dr.girlfriend]

I was going to recommend the IKEA Hemnes daybed, that has the drawers underneath that you can extend to a queen-sized bed. You could fit a LOT of craft supplies in those deep drawers!  My cousin had a Manhattan railroad apartment and he paid several thousand dollars for a fancy Murphy bed system to be built-in, and in the end he just never put his bed away because it was too much of a PITA to do so -- and that was with the fancy counterweight mechanism and everything. I think you'd be better off with the Hemnes, or just doing an air mattress as needed for guests.  We have the Hemnes in DS's room.  I think it's great -- it holds so much in the drawers, and then if you need to pull out the rails and make the double mattress single-layer, it's all right there.