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How to dress a Murphy bed?

The Murphy bed
Summary
Dressing a Murphy bed is an opportunity to make this piece of furniture a unique piece in your interior. For this, beautiful bedding , a few decorative objects and beautiful finishes on the structure of the furniture itself allow you to transform a basic foldaway bed into a cozy and designer bed.

Choosing bed linen suitable for a Murphy bed

Bed linen allows you to bring that cocooning touch to your bed, with a mix of textures and colors. If you have a Murphy bed with sofa , make sure that the colors remain harmonious between your bed and your sofa. Even if the bed and the sofa are not visible at the same time due to the mechanism of the foldaway bed, your living space must have a certain coherence in terms of the colors present there. For a traditional Murphy bed that stores vertically in a cabinet, choose light, natural colors for bed linen such as:
  • linen;
  • ecru;
  • beige;
  • pebble gray;
  • etc.

Also remember to choose cushions in the same shades as your bed linen and the fabric of your sofa in order to reuse these same cushions on your bed and on your sofa .

Install fixed decorative elements on a Murphy bed

A foldaway bed which offers a tailor-made office space once the mattress is folded allows for real space saving in a bedroom or studio. Decorative elements to place are not the best solution for decorating your foldaway bed, due to the vertical or horizontal closing system of the bed.

Several decor ideas are nevertheless suitable for decorating your sleeping area. To break up this visual aspect of a large wardrobe on a traditional Murphy bed, you can stick a large mirror on the box of this piece of furniture. You can also make decorative DIYs by making a small dressing room or shelves with wooden planks around the box of the Murphy bed.

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