Queen Vertical Deluxe Murphy Bed Kit DIY Murphy Bed Kit

My review may be lengthy, but I want to be thorough for everyone. We decided to tackle building our own queen-size Murphy Bed, given the high cost of buying a completed Bed. Here is my guidance...The equipment is perfect and works EXTREMELY well. What I am going to focus on are the instructions. After I purchased the kit, I received an email from the online store, which included 3 PDFs of instructions and information. Overall, they were good directions, but also, some very key parts should be included with the directions. First, paper templates for drilling would be HUGELY helpful. I know that some of the other brands do this. The first drilling you will do is for the upper piston hardware and the lower male pivot hardware. You must be exact when marking your center points for drilling the upper piston location. The lower male pivot hardware (11" up x XXX" in) does not require a center drill point. Your center is used as a base marker for the 4 holes. The bed frame plans are great, but you are not given directions on where to mount the hardware. Also, there are included in your ket "binding posts" for mounting hardware, but you are not told to use them for mounting. Suffice it to say that "pictures are worth a thousand words" in this case. Written directions would be more helpful than eyeballing from a picture. The same level of detail should be given to the folding leg positioning. Again, you must eyeball. I learned that the front hardware with the lower piston pivot should be flush with the top edge of the side boards of the bed frame. The rounded portion of the leg hardware should be flush with the top and bottom of the bed frame sideboard. Again, more detailed directions or a template would be very helpful. Finally, let's talk about attaching the gas piston. The piston should be attached early on in the build process, but you aren't told to do so. I only learned this from watching other YouTube videos from various people and companies. If you do not attach early, you will be frustrated with how difficult the piston will be to attach. Even with the unclear components of the directions, I give this product a 5-star rating. Templates would make the build so much easier. Also, another positive of the product is the customer service and communication with the seller, which was outstanding. You will experience a message lag due to the time zone differences, so be patient. All-in-all we are very satisfied. Just make sure you read the instructions 3 or 4 or 5 times. Thanks.

I followed their directions for the actual bed closely. Yet added our own design for two fold down desks or tables, which we use every day. On the left side about 18 inches from the floor we added a "power grommet" from Amazon which provides two 110v and three USB outlets. When I first began on this project I was disappointed in the lack of detailed instructions that came with this purchase. However, several reviews commented on the quick response of customer service. I sent an email and it was replied to the same evening with very helpful information and more informative .pdf files. Later I noticed that the machining on one pair of items was incorrect. Again I communicated with Customer Support and they immediately expedited two new parts from China along with a redone and very comprehensive installation manual. The manual contains not only assembly instructions but how to cut each sheet of plywood to get best usage from it. It is very detailed and well illustrated. In summary, while there were some minor problems initially with the purchase their customer service is truly a model for others to follow. I would give them six stars if I could! I would not hesitate purchasing from them again. I'm already thinking of building another Murphy bed....

When I first got the item I was very hopeful because of the quality of fabrication; but that was soon to be diminished. We start our preliminary planning and realized the instructions were missing many dimensions and were completely wrong in places. The pictures sometimes didn't even match the description. The last complaint is the gas struts are way more powerful than they need to be. Even with the through bolt mounting the struts had so much power that the pushed the through bolts sideways into the wood. Good fabrication, lousy design and instructions.

Bought this for my spare bedroom to play VR. It was fairly easy to incorporate this kit to a metal frame that I had. Good value for what I got. I am the only one that uses it and it's easy for me to open and close.

This project was fun to do. It is not for the novice DIY'er but with decent aptitude and following the directions it can be done. One thing to note is that even though the material cut sheets don't show it, there is an option in the directions to use 1/2" material for the front face of the cabinet and then skin it with a 1/4" sheet of a better finish grade product. This is important to know because it will effect the handle installation during construction. There are a couple of minor errors in the directions that show 4 screws rather than 3 but the hardware will enlighten you when you come to that part. Be sure to select high quality materials for this and although the instructions do not call for it, I would suggest pulling diagonal dimensions to determine if the box is square before you put the finish plywood on for the face of the cabinet. If it is not is will throw off your plywood install. I have about $500.00 in materials from the local supplier to build this. So the total investment will be around $625.00. It should be noted that the you need to check to make sure all of the hardware is included. I got half way through the build only to find out that I was missing all the sleeve nuts. (It appeared that this was an Amazon issue as the box had been re taped prior to shipping. I emailed the company and received the missing parts in 3 days. The company was quick to respond and solved my problem in the time frame that I needed it to be resolved.

The instructions for bed came after delivery of product and were a little difficult to follow at first ending in misleading the upper piston plate . I immediately reached out to customer service and explained my situation where I damaged both pistons and they immediately replaced them and gave additional information to assist me. The bed is complete and functional. Great customer service and responsiveness.