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 ...

Five years ago, I built my first Murphy bed, and it was a disaster. This time, I’m building a Murphy bed for a military family using Rockler’s Horizontal Murphy Bed kit, and it turned out much better.

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 ...