Sometimes I am so envious of your DIY skills! I want to call you up and say, if you have some free time – get over here and teach me! Or do it for me. That works too! So, when I see an awesome DIY idea, great money saving project and amazing talent – I get excited! Creative Decor by Brooke has something to show off today. Brooke and her husband designed and built it from scratch! See this pretty armoire? Great place to hide a tv, right?
No! It is a Murphy bed! Yes – look at it! Who’d know? There is no tutorial. Sometimes that’s hard to do when you’re DIY’ing on the fly. (Like that term?) Sometimes there are unnecessary steps, mistakes and redos and just way too much complicated instructions to share. I completely understand Brooke! She does share that when purchasing the mechanism for the Murphy bed, it came with instructions on making it and the materials needed and she shares some helpful pictures.
Murphy bed building in progress:
Next:
When the bed is up in the cabinet, the front is supposed to look like an armoire. You can have cabinet doors made but that is expensive so she decided to make fake doors and drawers with just some trim and fake drawer fronts. She gave it two coats of black paint, added some knobs and pulls…
Gave it a little sanding…
2 coats of this:
Here it finally is in its place. Faux armoire…
to Murphy bed!
The mattress is on order but with that kind of hard work, it deserves a feature now! They saved $1000 by building this themselves! Woo hoo! Isn’t it a great idea for a home office that also serves as a guest bedroom? I.love.it!
Great job Brooke and hubster! I am in awe of your DIY skills and the final result. You two rock! Now…about the guest reservations…
🙂
Awewome!!!
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Julie M.
Brilliant! Really….. brilliant! I wonder if I could do this? It would be a wonderful solution. Hmmmmmmmm……….
This is amazing!!!
That's pretty awesome! And it would be perfect for our tiny guest room, but I'm not sure if I'm that handy with power tools yet!
wow, I asb. love that murphy bed! what a great idea. Def. keeing this in mind for future spaces.
This is an amazing idea/project! Especially for a guest room/office situation!
I love it! What size mattress does it hold?
can we get a link to where the mechanism and instructions can be purchased from?
Roeshel,
Thank you so much for featuring our muphy bed. It really was quite a project, the biggest as of yet. But, we love it. It is used quite often.
Thanks again, your the best.
Brooke
That is so awesome! WooHoo to them for their building skills!!
OMG I have no words!
SoLongFarm.blogspot
WOW! I am totally impressed!
Fantastic!
Beachchica – Hopefully Brooke can answer your question if she sees it. If not…please follow the link to her site to inquire. I know she does mention the size of the mattress in her original post. 🙂 I know – inquiring minds want to know! lol Although, I need to work up to this project by attempting a frame or birdhouse first. I'm so inspired by Brooke's talent!
Roeshel
Oh-so-wonderful idea! Diana
That is beyond amazing!
Nice! It's definitely one of the better murphy beds I've seen in a while.
Oh my! That is amazing!
Beachchica,
Hopefully I answered you question in my email to you, if not, just email me again.
Thanks,
Brooke
Wonderful!!!!!!!!!
LOVE LOVE LOVE this!! Something I will bookmark for the future!!