Today we're gonna be showing you how we built this Murphy bed and put it in this closet stick with us
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We are in the office today. We want to make this a spare bedroom as well
So what we're going to be doing is putting a Murphy bed inside this closet. So we're going to leave the wall there
but we're going to take out some of the top to make room for the Murphy bed and
Get rid of these doors
Obviously put the Murphy bed in and then maybe some bookshelves and stuff in behind it. To make this Murphy bed
I'm going to use the hardware kit from Create-a-bed at wallbed.com
I chose to use a hardware kit just to save time instead of trying to put it all together instead of making my own
But it also has the added benefit of having pistons so it's easier to raise and lower the bed
As it'll counterbalance the weight
also interesting this it has these hinges which will be used to lower the feet for the bed and they will attach to
this piece which when
The bed is in the upright position these will lock it in place. When you lower the feet
It'll pull this down and release it so you can lower the bed. Just a safety feature to have
It came with different sets of instructions
these are the instructions for the cuts for
Using plywood these are for particle board and then the assembly of the bed itself here
It also comes with a DVD. I don't actually have a DVD player. So
Anyway, I'm not gonna watch that
But I used these to get my wood cut. I just went to Home Depot and
Talked to somebody there we use the panel saw to make all the cuts in advance
Which hopefully will greatly reduce the amount of time it takes to build this
It says "do not deviate from these plans", but I want to I'll show you one thing I did do that
Saved buying a whole other sheet of plywood
If I could find it here
These cuts... so we need two sheets of plywood to do this
One sheet of plywood for this and then another whole sheet of plywood for these two boards
So what I did was I did not
cut this head board out of plywood and instead I bought a pine project panel and
Then when I did that there was enough room to put these
into this sheet and I didn't need that third sheet. So it's saved about sixty dollars which is you know,
Not bad
Since we're talking about the hardware
Let's talk about costs. This hardware kit itself was three hundred and thirty dollars
The materials and the plywood the wood screws
The iron-on tape to finish the edges all that cost about three hundred seventy dollars
We bought a mattress for this project from Ikea for two hundred and fifty and that
brings everything up to about nine hundred fifty dollars plus tax and
That's Canadian dollars and then I still need to finish it off putting shelves in the closet and staining
Putting trim around it
I'm estimating that's gonna be about another hundred dollars to finish that off because I have a lot of materials here
So for about a thousand fifty dollars, that's what this project is running us
plus tax and
But you know, it's big space saver for us and it gives us a whole other room so definitely worth it
I'll put a link down below for as much of this stuff as I can find you can find that down in the description
So the next thing we're gonna do is take the trim off the walls to get started here
And I'm calling in the a-team to help out with this one, so
There's the expert
Reading through the directions and getting everything ready to go
Y'all good?
Alright, here it goes
Alright we got the door taken out of the closet we raised this up here and
We put a support piece in the back. It's not holding anything except the drywall, so that should be good for that
We have the opening done. So now we're going to build the
The this part of the bed frame right here, so that's the next step
We're going to prep the side rails now we need to
Drill a one-inch hole for the pivot here. And that plate will get mounted on the other side come up through and
then we're gonna
Place these on each of these side rails and then we can go up and finish putting the bed frame together
Good idea
We got the hardware mounted to the rails we start to measure it, but then we realized that
These were in the kit and they were to size
so we just
cut these out and use them as a template for the holes and then check the measurements afterwards and it worked well, so
It's a lot easier to do it that way than trying to figure it all out with measuring
Now we just got to mount the rails to the frame and then the head and foot
OK we've got these
Panels done. We got the holes cut for the legs and the hinges you flip them upside down the good side down
we put a cloth underneath and then we needed to mark it a quarter inch in so we put a
Couple of finished nails in to help guide us when we flip it over
Now we're just gonna put glue or construction adhesive on this
Flip it over and screw it down
Okay, so we got the faces on and glued we put wood tape on to
Make the plywood look better now. We have these feet ready to go
This is what these holes are for. This hinge goes through to this side. I
Want to screw this in up here centered in the hole
Up like that and these are going to make the legs when the Murphy bed is
In the down position bed frame is all together
We put these on here these lifts up
To become the feet at the same time that will pull down the latch up here
So when the legs down it locks into place when it's up in the wall, when you pull the leg out
To make the foot
Then it pulls the lock down and releases it
now
We have to build the header. We have the wood ready for that we have
the boards cut here for the cabinets, the side, and the headboard over here and
We're gonna run out of much room to do this, so
It'll be interesting, but we'll lay this down and then build the cabinet around it and then push it back into the wall
We've got the frame in the cabinet now get the head around there we have the pistons attached come around the back you can see
Pistons attached here. Once we attach it to the wall, we can move this out and put the stoppers back in up in those
We have to rig the closet up a little bit we
Had to make, make some spacers to attach it in here so that's what we're...
it's gonna be tight fit...
But that's what we're gonna have to squeeze it into now and we put some shims on this side
Just drywall take up the space we can screw in two studs on this side
This side obviously
we've got a few pieces of scrap wood in there that we can attach the side to
So the next thing I'm gonna actually be in behind this
while we pull it in, with a flashlight, and
Dad'll be on the other side
and he's gonna lock me in here and
Hopefully I can get out. And another thing we did was run some power up through the floor
This will be in behind the bed, but that'll allow us to put an outlet in there for a light or something
Charger your phone charger or whatever it is, but we've got that ready in case we want
So there you have it, that's his first we're gonna thank you today the
supervisor kitty approves of the build we used
a Hasvag
Mattress from Ikea, I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right. Apologies to anybody watching from Sweden
the reason we chose this one is because in the closet, there we
We we were storing
You can see it over there, we had a mattress topper that we use for our pull-out couch in the living room
now we can just store that underneath this mattress and fold it up away and
Again, just trying to save space and and utilizing...
Utilizing it as best we can
Still to come on this
Still to come we need to put trim around the
The outside here, obviously, it doesn't look great right now, but we'll fix that up. We will put some
shelving
Inside and behind it
and then as I mentioned
We do have
some wiring back there
That we will put some outlets in and some lighting
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