Murphy Bed

I like your idea.  We have a similar situation with our 181G.  After we use it a few times we'll decide if we want to mod it in some way.

Do you have details of material and how you assembled it you are willing to share. It took me a few minutes to figure out what where the bed was. I kept looking and could not figure out how you gained space. That is nice.

Clejo,

Pictures of murphy bed mod.


I started by cutting the section out of the front board for easy access to the water pump and valves.


I built the forward section to match the thickness of the futon.


I built the mattress platform from 3/8ths plywood framed with 1x6 boards for stiffness and to keep it lighter than just using thicker plywood. I used wood dowels sliding in conduit clamps to hold the bed up. I may add struts or some other way to hold it up as the valances may not be strong enough.


When raising the bed I just lift the board and squeeze the ends of the mattress past the valences and slide out the dowels. The futon back lifts up and locks in place, pull it forward then back down to close things up. The bed platform just sits on the futon pad when lowered.