Murphy beds?

[JWFITZ]

Um, the piston types are less noisy.

[Kelena]

David, that's the one! On island, all put together, the wood breathes, closets to the side, and ready to go!

[David M]

Island Collection. The building on the left corner as you turn left and go up the hill to Costco. I dealt with Issac, an interesting fella.
Besides what is in stock, you can custom order, supposedly 4-6 weeks lag.

David

Ninole Resident

[gtill]

I called them, and the one shown by link is the tropical model, yes it breathes. And it's only 2795$ installed, not in stock, but available in 1 day. Does not include drawers and shelves.
Time for a 300$ kit, the bed pictured is a piston type, same as the kit!

[Kelena]

That's outrageous. The link below is the first Wall Bed (Murphy Bed) I bought. The company was "The Bedder Way". At the time the price installed and delivered was $2100. It was justifiable for me because it was installed in a space that would have been otherwise difficult to use. I got my money back and more when I sold the place (times were different! []). You can get the mechanism on E-Bay, as you know. Just have someone build a cabinet around that. I LOVED this bed. It was very comfortable (that depends on your mattress) and just flipped up out of the way to create a sitting area during the day that appeared bigger because of the mirror on the face of the cabinet. Ah, I loved that place. Shoulda never sold it.

I think what you could do is have a plywood box with a bamboo, or what do they call that stuff "lauhala" cover (the bamboo weave).

http://www.bedderway.com/store/detail.asp?ID=17&CATEGORY_ID=1

[mikewj]

some info for gtill:

I have some familiarity with Murphy beds and have found them to be a great way to get the most out of a small space. I've done some net surfing, and found the following site which looks like a good place to get the hardware and instructions to build one's own bed. I have also sent the vendor an e-mail requesting shipping costs to Pahoa. Hope this helps.
http://www.wallbed.com/

[JWFITZ]

If it's well built(ahem) and under 2500 bucks, it's a deal. Remember, it moves. If it's crappy, and the joints are shoddy, and all the rest, it will fall apart in 6 months. A Murphy Bed is a more highly engineered structure than your roof. There's at least 1000 bucks of materials in such a bed, if done right, and 2 weeks worth of custom cabinet work.

A quality Murphy bed that won't fall apart will sell for close to 5 grand, for sure. 8 to 10 isn't uncommmon. You can cut that price by saving complexity, but you can't cut quality or it will simply fall apart, especially in this climate.

I fix stuff too. If not mostly. See you soon.