We Need a Murphy Bed

When we first moved to Oregon, Bud worked from home quite a bit, so our guest room doubled as his home office. The room was crammed full of furniture, housing both his desk and a queen-size bed. We needed a solution so that the office felt more like an office, but we weren't having to haul a mattress up from the basement each time we had an out-of-town guest. A futon was out of the question. It was too reminiscent of college furniture days.

Enter the Wallbed folks - we purchased all of the working mechanics and plans to build a murphy bed, which we did over a series of weekends. We dressed it to look like a large media cabinet, but the doors and drawers are of course "false."

We have since added an angled shelving unit to one side of the bed, and the plan is to complete the other side with a bookcase as well. We'll see if that ever happens!