I need advice about wall beds. 23 August 2021 at 11:49AM edited 12 September 2021 at 1:28PM in I wanna buy it or do it 6 replies 188 views

Carmengg

Hello!!! 
I need advice! I'd like to buy a double bed for my guest room, but I would like to be able to use the room, for what im looking a hideaway bed or something similar. I like the style of Murphy's bed thinking in comfort and space saving, but my walls are plasterboard and im  not sure if would hold the weight  in the wall.  I found a great solution with a Lori wall bed design in EEUU, so I wonder if there is something similar in UK but I cant find it? Any other guest's comfortable bed? As im planning to bring my parents and I Need good quality in a reasonable price.
Any help???

latest2021

Sofa !!!!!! Bed will help to save your space.

tacpot12

Whether the wall will take the weight of the bed is down to the construction of the wall, and how the hinges work; the load on the wall is not very much. If there is a brick wall behind the plasterboard, you need "Core-fix" fixings. If it is timber studs, then you might need to fix a board across the studs, before fixing the bed to the board (this is the technique that the Lori wallbeds uses; the back of their cupboard is the board that is fixed across the studs).

tacpot12

For very occasional use, you could prably get away with a regular mattress and bedframe and just stand these on their side when they are not needed. 

maman

It depends on what you want to use the room for. In our guest room, we have one of those single beds with a further single underneath which pulls out. It can be used as single, twin or pushed together as a double so very versatile.

We use the room as a dressing room when no guests so still plenty of floor space. 

JaneGeo

Definitely wall bed with sofa! Thus you will have a bedroom and a living room in one. There is a model "3 in 1 sofa wall bed" that is free standing, no need to be fixed to the wall. It also has a a coffee table that doesn't have to be moved when lowering the bed. Very practical. 

wolfehouse

My son has this one https://www.studybed.co.uk/ 

a desk that rotates underneath the bed so you can leave things on it when the bed is up.  

Some considerations though:  it is fairly expensive, the bed is quite high up, my other child complains that she hears the bed sort of ‘shake’ because of the items underneath.  

I have slept in it just fine.