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The Best Renter-Friendly Murphy Beds

Almost every wall bed anchors to the wall. Here are the ones that do not, the ones that barely do, and how to tell which category a product is in before you buy.

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At a glance

Quick picks

Tap any row to jump to the full write-up. Scores are our own, from the rubric on how we choose — not customer ratings. They score each product across the whole site, so the order here reflects how well a pick answers this page’s question, which is not always the same as the highest score.

#	Product	Best for	Score	Price
01	Night & Day Furniture Murphy Cube Cabinet Bed (Queen) A queen bed inside a solid hardwood credenza that bolts to nothing. Closed it is 26.4 inches deep and about ten square feet of floor, and the mattress is in the box.	Renters who want a queen and cannot drill	8.6	$1,897.00 · View on Amazon #ad how we earn · price as of November 14, 2026
02	Arason Creden-ZzZ Queen Cabinet Bed The original cabinet bed: 24 inches deep closed, a usable 39-inch-high top surface, a memory foam mattress included and a drawer for the bedding.	—	8.1	$2,019.00 · View on Amazon #ad how we earn · price as of November 14, 2026
03	Mjkone Queen Wall Murphy Bed with Storage Shelf A queen cabinet bed on a 180-degree rotating mechanism that the maker states needs no wall mounting at all — the answer for a lease that forbids any drilling.	Leases that forbid any drilling at all	7.8	Check price on Amazon #ad how we earn · no live price right now
04	AMERLIFE Queen Murphy Bed with LED and Charging Station 16.1 inches deep closed — the shallowest wall bed on this site — on a gas-lift system, with five anti-tip brackets and a charging station in the cabinet.	The shallowest closed depth	8.2	$649.99 · View on Amazon $758.99 14% off #ad how we earn · price as of November 14, 2026
05	Bestar Claremont 80W Queen Horizontal Murphy Bed The queen turned sideways: 64.23 inches tall instead of 88, and the only wall bed here that publishes both numbers — 19.53 inches deep closed, extending 69.43 inches from the back.	Low ceilings and under-window walls	7.9	Check price on Amazon #ad how we earn · no live price right now

How we picked

Sorted strictly by how much of the building you have to modify: freestanding first, then stud-anchored, then anything requiring floor fixings. Within each group we rank by sleep surface and closed depth. We have been explicit about the products that are marketed as renter-friendly and still require anchoring, because that is the distinction that matters and the marketing routinely blurs it.

01Top pickRenters who want a queen and cannot drill

Night & Day Furniture Murphy Cube Cabinet Bed (Queen)

Night & Day Furniture

A queen bed inside a solid hardwood credenza that bolts to nothing. Closed it is 26.4 inches deep and about ten square feet of floor, and the mattress is in the box.

What it's bad at

172 lb assembled and it does not come apart again. Getting it into a third-floor walk-up is the whole problem with this category.

Our score — 8.6 / 10

Footprint8

Mattress8

Mechanism9

Renter fit10

Value7

$1,897.00 · View on Amazon

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Specifications

Folded footprint: 64.1 in. W x 26.4 in. D x 36.6 in. H — about 10 sq ft of floor
Open footprint: 64.1 in. W x 80.3 in. D x 25.7 in. H
Clearance in front: Gains 53.9 in. of depth when opened (26.4 in. to 80.3 in.). No walkway figure stated by the manufacturer.
Doorway minimum: Arrives flat packed, so any standard doorway
Sleep surface: 80.3 in. long; a queen sleeping surface per the manufacturer
Mattress: Included cabinet-bed-specific 6 in. tri-fold gel memory foam mattress
Fold mechanism: Front panel folds down, mattress tri-folds out on a sliding platform
Weight capacity: NOT STATED BY MANUFACTURER
Assembly: Flat packed, ready to assemble, with instructions and video links. 172 lb. 10-year cabinet warranty, 3-year mattress warranty.
Renter-safe?: Yes — freestanding, explicitly does not need anchoring to a wall
Price: $1,897.00 · View on Amazon
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Source: Amazon.com product listing, read via the Amazon Creators API, recorded 16 Oct 2026. Any field the listing does not state is marked as such rather than estimated.

Arason Creden-ZzZ Queen Cabinet Bed

Arason Enterprises

The original cabinet bed: 24 inches deep closed, a usable 39-inch-high top surface, a memory foam mattress included and a drawer for the bedding.

What it's bad at

Arason calls it a queen, but it does not publish the sleeping surface, and at 240 lb this is a two-person delivery that then lives where you first put it.

Our score — 8.1 / 10

Footprint8

Mattress7

Mechanism8

Renter fit10

Value6

$2,019.00 · View on Amazon

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Specifications

Folded footprint: 64 in. W x 24 in. D x 39 in. H
Open footprint: NOT STATED BY MANUFACTURER
Clearance in front: No open depth is published for this model. Plan on roughly the mattress length clear of the cabinet front and confirm with the seller.
Doorway minimum: NOT STATED BY MANUFACTURER
Sleep surface: Sold as a queen; the listing publishes no sleeping dimensions
Mattress: Included memory foam mattress. Depth not stated.
Fold mechanism: Fold-down front with the mattress on a pull-out platform
Weight capacity: NOT STATED BY MANUFACTURER
Assembly: Required. 240 lb. Freestanding — the listing states no bolting to floor or walls. Storage drawer for pillows or blankets.
Renter-safe?: Yes — freestanding, explicitly needs no bolting
Price: $2,019.00 · View on Amazon
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Source: Amazon.com product listing, read via the Amazon Creators API, recorded 16 Oct 2026. Any field the listing does not state is marked as such rather than estimated.

03Leases that forbid any drilling at all

Mjkone Queen Wall Murphy Bed with Storage Shelf

Mjkone

A queen cabinet bed on a 180-degree rotating mechanism that the maker states needs no wall mounting at all — the answer for a lease that forbids any drilling.

What it's bad at

Mjkone publishes the cabinet dimensions and a 1,000 lb figure and very little else: no mattress thickness limit, no mattress, no warranty terms. On a bed that stands free and rotates, the tip stability you would most like documented is not.

Our score — 7.8 / 10

Footprint8

Mattress8

Mechanism7

Renter fit10

Value9

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Specifications

Folded footprint: 63 in. W x 83 in. D x 83 in. H as listed
Open footprint: NOT STATED BY MANUFACTURER
Clearance in front: No open figure is published. The cabinet rotates 180 degrees, so budget the full swing plus the mattress length and confirm with the seller.
Doorway minimum: NOT STATED BY MANUFACTURER
Sleep surface: Queen, per the listing. No mattress dimensions published.
Mattress: Your own. Not included. Maximum thickness not stated.
Fold mechanism: 180-degree rotating cabinet bed — the listing states no wall mounting is required
Weight capacity: 1,000 lb
Assembly: Required; tools and instructions supplied, two people recommended.
Renter-safe?: Yes — the manufacturer states it needs no wall mounting
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Source: Amazon.com product listing, read via the Amazon Creators API, recorded 16 Oct 2026. Any field the listing does not state is marked as such rather than estimated.

04The shallowest closed depth

AMERLIFE Queen Murphy Bed with LED and Charging Station

AMERLIFE

16.1 inches deep closed — the shallowest wall bed on this site — on a gas-lift system, with five anti-tip brackets and a charging station in the cabinet.

What it's bad at

AMERLIFE requires a solid wall; it explicitly will not go on a hollow partition. That rules out a lot of modern apartments before you have measured anything, and 231 lb means the decision is final.

Our score — 8.2 / 10

Footprint10

Mattress8

Mechanism8

Renter fit4

Value9

$649.99 · View on Amazon

$758.99 14% off

#ad how we earn · price as of November 14, 2026

Specifications

Folded footprint: 66.1 in. W x 16.1 in. D x 91.3 in. H
Open footprint: NOT STATED BY MANUFACTURER
Clearance in front: No extension figure is published. Plan on roughly the mattress length from the wall plus a walkway, and measure before ordering.
Doorway minimum: Ships in two boxes
Sleep surface: Standard queen, per the listing
Mattress: Your own: 8 to 12 in. thick, per the listing. Not included.
Fold mechanism: Gas-lift wall bed with gas struts, LED light strip and a charging station
Weight capacity: NOT STATED BY MANUFACTURER
Assembly: Required, about two hours with two people. 231 lb. Five anti-tip brackets. Must be fixed to a solid wall — hollow walls are excluded by the manufacturer.
Renter-safe?: No — must be installed on a solid wall
Price: $649.99 · View on Amazon
$758.99 14% off
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Source: Amazon.com product listing, read via the Amazon Creators API, recorded 16 Oct 2026. Any field the listing does not state is marked as such rather than estimated.

05Low ceilings and under-window walls

Bestar Claremont 80W Queen Horizontal Murphy Bed

Bestar

The queen turned sideways: 64.23 inches tall instead of 88, and the only wall bed here that publishes both numbers — 19.53 inches deep closed, extending 69.43 inches from the back.

What it's bad at

Sideways means wide. At 84.41 inches it needs seven feet of uninterrupted wall, and Bestar requires the baseboard removed and the floor drilled, which makes it a landlord conversation.

Our score — 7.9 / 10

Footprint9

Mattress9

Mechanism9

Renter fit3

Value7

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Specifications

Folded footprint: 84.41 in. W x 19.53 in. D x 64.23 in. H
Open footprint: Extends 69.43 in. from the back wall; 84.41 in. wide
Clearance in front: Gains 49.9 in. of depth when opened (19.53 in. to 69.43 in.). Bestar states no separate walkway figure.
Doorway minimum: NOT STATED BY MANUFACTURER
Sleep surface: 60 x 80 in. — a true queen
Mattress: Your own: 8 to 10 in. thick, 35 to 70 lb, 60 x 80 in. No futons, no box spring.
Fold mechanism: Dual-piston system with a locking mechanism that prevents accidental closing in use
Weight capacity: 1,000 lb on a breathable mesh base. Top shelf 60 lb, inside shelf 5 lb.
Assembly: Required, two people, professional installation specified. 273 lb. Needs wood studs or masonry, baseboard removal and drilling into the floor. 10-year warranty on the bed, 1 year on the mechanism.
Renter-safe?: No — secures to the wall and the floor and needs the baseboard removed
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Source: Amazon.com product listing, read via the Amazon Creators API, recorded 16 Oct 2026. Any field the listing does not state is marked as such rather than estimated.

This is the gap in the category. Search for a Murphy bed and almost everything you find is dual-mount — anchored to the wall and the floor — which is exactly what a standard lease prohibits and what a security deposit pays for. Sleep Foundation’s Murphy bed coverage barely touches renters; the sites that do are mostly writing about what renters cannot have.

So this page sorts by one criterion: how much of the building you have to modify. There are three honest tiers, and the products in the top one anchor to absolutely nothing.

Tier one: anchors to nothing at all

Cabinet beds. The mechanism is entirely inside a piece of freestanding furniture, and the Arason Creden-ZzZ listing says it explicitly: no need to bolt to floor or wall.

The freestanding options

Night & Day Murphy Cube (queen): 64.1 × 26.4 × 36.6 in. closed · opens to 80.3 in. · 172 lb · 6 in. mattress included
Arason Creden-ZzZ (queen): 64 × 24 × 39 in. closed · 240 lb · memory foam mattress and drawer included
Mjkone rotating cabinet bed (queen): 63 in. wide cabinet · 180° rotating · 1,000 lb · no wall mounting required

The Cube and the Creden-ZzZ both give you a queen-scale sleeping surface in a credenza about two feet deep, with the mattress in the box. The Mjkone is a different animal — a cabinet that rotates 180 degrees rather than folding out of a credenza, and the only one of the three that asks you to supply your own mattress.

The honest costs: the Cube is 172 pounds assembled and does not come apart; the Creden-ZzZ is 240 and publishes no sleeping dimensions at all, so “queen” is the maker’s word rather than a measured one; and the Mjkone publishes a 1,000 lb figure but no mattress thickness limit, which on a rotating cabinet is the number you would most like documented.

Tier two: stud screws only

AMERLIFE is unusually direct about what its vertical queen needs, and it is worth repeating what the listing actually says rather than what the format is assumed to mean: the bed goes on a solid wall, hollow partitions are excluded, and five anti-tip brackets come in the box.

That is not drill-free. It is, however, a very different intervention from a dual-mount system with floor plates: fixings into the wall only, patchable with filler when you leave, and no baseboard to remove. Many landlords treat that the way they treat a mounted TV or a heavy shelf.

The bed itself is 16.1 inches deep closed — the shallowest wall bed on this site — 66.1 inches wide and 91.3 inches tall, on gas struts rather than a dual-piston mechanism. It takes a conventional queen 8 to 12 inches thick, ships in two boxes, weighs 231 pounds and goes up in about two hours with two people. AMERLIFE publishes no weight capacity and no extension figure, so measure the mattress length clear of the cabinet yourself.

Ask the landlord, specifically

Ask about “screws into studs, filled and painted on exit” rather than about “a Murphy bed.” The second phrase invites a no; the first is the same conversation as a bookshelf.

Tier three: wall and floor fixings — usually a no

Bestar’s dual-mount mechanism attaches to both the floor and the wall structure, which is exactly why those beds are rated to 1,000 pounds and exactly why most renters cannot have one. Floor fixings through a finished floor are a different order of alteration from wall screws.

There is one case where this becomes available: a long lease where you have asked, in writing, and the landlord has agreed — which happens more often in single-family rentals than in managed buildings. If that is you, the whole Bestar range is on the best Murphy beds for small apartments.

A DIY kit is not a route around this. A DIY Murphy bed kit still produces a bed anchored to the structure; it just makes you the cabinet maker as well.

What to actually check in the lease

Four clauses, in roughly this order of importance.

Alterations and fixtures. Most leases prohibit “alterations” and separately permit “normal hanging of pictures.” Anchoring into studs sits between those, which is why asking beats assuming.

Anything about the floor. Floor fixings are usually named separately and usually prohibited outright.

Restoration on exit. If the lease requires restoration, a filled and painted screw hole is normally acceptable and a lag bolt through a hardwood floor is not.

Weight or fire clauses in managed buildings. Rarer, but high-rises sometimes cap fixed furniture weight.

The fuller version, including what happens with a wall bed at the end of a tenancy, is in can you put a Murphy bed in an apartment.

Three practical follow-ups for a rented room. Step six of how to measure for a Murphy bed is finding the studs, and it is the step that decides whether a wall bed is possible here at all. How to hide a Murphy bed covers the disguise options that do not involve fixings, which matters when the lease forbids holes. And if something starts creeping down or will not latch, how to fix a Murphy bed runs the four checks in the order that finds the cause fastest — the mattress weight first.

Two neighbouring questions. The freestanding beds above are also the only ones worth considering in a vehicle, for the same reason - see Murphy beds for RVs and campers. And if drilling is off the table entirely, the format that asks nothing at all of the building is compared here: Murphy bed vs trundle. Both of those freestanding cabinet beds also ship with their own mattress, which is the shortest route to a finished guest bed - see Murphy beds with a mattress included.

Answers

Common questions

Is there a Murphy bed that does not need to be attached to the wall?

Yes — a cabinet bed. The whole mechanism lives inside a freestanding credenza, and the Arason Creden-ZzZ listing states there is no need to bolt it to the floor or the wall. A Night & Day Murphy Cube is the same format, and the Mjkone rotating cabinet bed states that no wall mounting is required either. All three give a queen-scale sleeping surface without touching the building.

Can renters install a Murphy bed?

It depends on the format. A freestanding cabinet bed needs no permission because nothing is modified. A wall-fixed panel bed like the AMERLIFE goes into a solid wall only, which is a screws-and-filler conversation with the landlord. A dual-mount system like Bestar's anchors to the wall and the floor and needs the baseboard removed, and that is usually a no in a rental.

Does the AMERLIFE wall bed need to be anchored?

Yes. AMERLIFE is explicit that it must be installed on a solid wall — hollow walls are excluded — and five anti-tip brackets are supplied. It is a much lighter intervention than a floor-mounted system, but it is not drill-free, so treat any listing that implies otherwise with suspicion.

What is the best no-drill guest bed for a rental?

A cabinet bed if you want a real mattress and can get 172 to 240 pounds of furniture into the room. A rotating cabinet bed like the Mjkone if you want a queen with nothing fixed to the building at all. A daybed or a sleeper sofa if the bed is only needed occasionally.

Will a Murphy bed damage the wall?

A stud-anchored panel bed leaves screw holes that fill and paint. A dual-mount system leaves those plus floor fixings, which is the part that causes deposit disputes. A freestanding cabinet bed leaves nothing at all beyond ordinary furniture wear.

Sources

Keep reading

Quick picks

Night & Day Furniture Murphy Cube Cabinet Bed (Queen)

Arason Creden-ZzZ Queen Cabinet Bed

Mjkone Queen Wall Murphy Bed with Storage Shelf

AMERLIFE Queen Murphy Bed with LED and Charging Station

Bestar Claremont 80W Queen Horizontal Murphy Bed

Tier one: anchors to nothing at all

Tier two: stud screws only

Tier three: wall and floor fixings — usually a no

What to actually check in the lease

Common questions

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