If you don't want to commit a whole room to hosting guests, there's no need. After all, creating space for your out-of-towners can mean giving up the room's former functionality for people who don't ...

Just the name Murphy bed makes me laugh. It conjures memories of scenes in slapstick comedies, where the beds, possessed with demonic intentions, drop into rooms unannounced or swallow up (or ...

The clients came to interior designer Laura Casey with a space dilemma: They did not want to give up the guest room in their suburban home, yet they needed a place for their child to play. Casey came ...

When the vast majority of your life is happening within the four walls of your home, every square foot counts. So the past two years have inspired some serious, space-saving creativity. “Everybody all ...

As homes get smaller with baby boomers downsizing, homeowners are seeking to become more organized. Oftentimes that means incorporating Murphy Beds into multifunctional spaces. But the increase in the ...

The clients came to interior designer Laura Casey with a space dilemma: They did not want to give up the guest room in their suburban home, yet they needed a place for their child to play. Casey came ...

Lloyd Alter is Design Editor for Treehugger and teaches Sustainable Design at Ryerson University in Toronto. If I had $12,000 to spend on the Clei Murphy bed, I would probably have a large enough ...

As a boy, Don Kosten saw a bed drop from a closet in his aunt’s apartment and it struck him as a neat idea. When the Indianapolis businessman retired in the late 1990s, he used his woodworking skills ...

When the vast majority of your life is happening within the four walls of your home, every square foot counts. So the past two years have inspired some serious, space-saving creativity. “Everybody all ...