IKEA Murphy Beds: Does IKEA Sell Wall Beds?

If you’re in search of the best murphy bed cabinet IKEA has to offer, you’ll spend a lot of time looking. That’s because the Swedish compact furniture brand doesn’t carry any. Online searches for ‘cabinet bed IKEA’ yield related products, but not this specific kind. Consumers’ only real option is a DIY hack that pairs PAX wardrobes with a separate hardware kit, or to pre-built cabinet beds from brands that specialize in them.

IKEA is famous for affordable, modular furniture, but a cabinet bed is not in the catalogue and never has been. What you find instead are IKEA hacks and Pinterest boards, not a finished product you can order and sleep on. This guide explains why an IKEA cabinet bed does not exist, how the popular PAX hack actually works, where it falls short, and which pre-built alternatives from our range of cabinet Murphy beds make more sense if you want something that ships ready to use. Archic Furniture is a whole-home furniture retailer, and cabinet beds are one of our specialties.

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Does IKEA Sell a Cabinet Bed or Murphy Bed?

No. IKEA does not currently make or sell a cabinet bed, a Murphy bed, a wall bed, or any product with a fold-down sleeping mechanism built in. The closest pieces IKEA offers are the PAX wardrobe system, BESTÅ storage cabinets, and a few daybed frames, and none of them fold out into a bed on their own.

That gap is more meaningful than it first sounds. A real folding bed carries an engineering history dating back to William Lawrence Murphy's counterbalanced wall-bed designs, including US Patent 1,030,201 for the "Disappearing Bed," granted in June 1912. Purpose-built cabinet bed and Murphy bed makers inherit more than a century of that refinement. IKEA has stayed out of the category entirely. Why?

A working folding bed needs three things IKEA does not build into any single product: a counterbalance or fold-out mechanism rated for thousands of cycles, a frame that can handle the moving load of a mattress being raised and lowered, and mounting or platform support engineered for that exact stress. IKEA's flat-pack particleboard is designed for static loads like shelves and hanging clothes. The moving load of a bed is a different problem, and that is what keeps the cabinet bed off IKEA's shelves.

What People Mean by an "IKEA Cabinet Bed"

An IKEA cabinet bed is a DIY project rather than a product. Builders combine two or three IKEA cabinets with a separately purchased Murphy bed hardware kit from a brand such as Next Bed, Murphy Bed USA, or Lori Bed. The IKEA pieces supply the cabinet look, and the third-party kit supplies the lift mechanism and bed frame.

The IKEA pieces most often used in these builds include PAX wardrobe systems, which stand tall enough to enclose a bed in vertical position and come in widths that pair with queen and full mattresses, BESTÅ storage cabinets for lower-profile shelving beside the bed, and KALLAX or BILLY units to flank the wardrobe and add display space. Putting one together usually means anchoring the wardrobe to wall studs, fitting the third-party kit inside the wardrobe footprint, adding a memory foam mattress that can stand on end without buckling, and finishing the doors so they clear the open bed.

Where the IKEA Cabinet Bed Hack Falls Short

The PAX cabinet bed hack appeals to people because the finished cabinet look reads as built-in for a fraction of custom millwork pricing. The trade-offs show up in safety and longevity.

Particleboard is built for static loads

IKEA wardrobe panels are melamine-faced particleboard joined with cam-lock fasteners, which suits hanging clothes and stacking books. The rotational stress of a 150-to-200-pound mattress and frame moving up and down thousands of times over the cabinet's life asks far more of those panels. Over the years they can sag, the fasteners can work loose, and the joints can weaken.

Wardrobe hinges are not bed hardware

A real cabinet bed or Murphy bed uses engineered springs, pistons, or a solid fold-out platform that carries the mattress weight, so the bed feels light and predictable as you open and close it. A hack leans on cabinet hinges and basic springs that fight the load instead of carrying it, which gives you a heavier, less predictable lift and more wear on everything around it.

Anchoring has to be exact

Once the IKEA wardrobe becomes structural, the wall anchors carry real weight. A poorly anchored hack can pull away from the wall or drop during operation. Pre-built cabinet beds route that load through purpose-engineered steel pivots or a solid platform designed for the job, so the risk lives in the factory engineering rather than in your drywall. A careful DIY builder can still pull off a working PAX cabinet bed. The margin for error is simply wider, and the result suits occasional guest use better than nightly sleep.

Why IKEA Stays Out of the Cabinet Bed Category

IKEA's absence from this category comes down to four things: engineering complexity, materials cost, liability, and brand fit. A folding bed needs heavy-duty construction, precision hardware, and safety testing across years of use, and those requirements push cost above what fits IKEA's flat-pack, assemble-it-yourself-with-an-Allen-key model. A bed that raises and lowers a heavy mattress is also harder to certify and insure than a static wardrobe. So IKEA stays in its lane on modular furniture, and cabinet beds stay with the brands that specialize in them. That is where we come in.

Our Cabinet Bed Alternatives to an IKEA Build

If you want a cabinet bed that ships finished and works the day it arrives, a freestanding cabinet bed is the closest match to what most IKEA hack builders are really after. You get a cabinet that opens to a queen or full sleeping surface, with no wall mounting, no separate hardware kit, and none of the structural risk. We carry two brands built exactly for this: Night and Day Furniture and Arason Enterprises.

Night and Day Furniture cabinet beds

Our Night and Day Furniture cabinet beds are built on solid rubberwood frames with a fold-out platform rated for 500 pounds. Each one ships with a tri-fold gel memory foam mattress sized to store inside the closed cabinet, a 10-year cabinet warranty, and a 3-year mattress warranty. Standout models include the Murphy Cube, a queen credenza-style cabinet, the Clover, a queen credenza that holds a TV on top while the bed is open, the Daisy, a cottage-style queen with two drawer-knob options, and the Orion, a twin/full configuration offered in five finishes including Cherry, Chocolate, Natural, Stonewash, and White.

Arason Enterprises cabinet beds

Our Arason cabinet beds use a flip-top chest design with a solid sleeping platform that does away with springs and bars, integrated USB ports and an electrical outlet on most Creden-ZzZ models, and a 6-inch tri-fold memory foam mattress as standard. The Creden-ZzZ format supports up to 500 pounds and needs no wall or floor mounting. Popular models include the Madrid in Brushed White, the Coffee Espresso Chest, the Cottage White with its beadboard look, the Pekoe in traditional warm brown with brass hardware, and the Kingston with a tropical wicker inlay. Both brands ship from our 25 US distribution centers with free shipping on orders above $199.

IKEA Cabinet Bed Hack vs. a Pre-Built Cabinet Bed

For nightly use, a pre-built cabinet bed comes out ahead of an IKEA hack on mechanism quality, cabinet durability, install effort, and warranty. The hack wins on one point: a fully built-in look across an entire wall. On total cost, the two land within a few hundred dollars of each other once you add up wardrobes, a hardware kit, and a mattress.

A DIY IKEA cabinet bed suits you if you enjoy the build itself, you want that wall-to-wall built-in look, and you have the carpentry skills to anchor a wardrobe and fit third-party hardware safely. A pre-built cabinet bed suits you if you want the bed working the day it arrives, you rent and cannot drill into the wall, or you would rather leave the lift mechanism and warranty to the manufacturer. 

Our cabinet beds start around $1,697 for the Murphy Cube and run to about $2,900 for higher-end Arason models, with the mattress, hardware, and warranty already included. If you want the numbers side by side across formats, our full breakdown of Murphy bed and cabinet bed prices compares wall beds, DIY kits, and cabinet beds. For most people who searched for a cabinet bed at IKEA expecting a finished piece, a freestanding cabinet bed is the closer match, and you can see our full space-saving furniture catalog to find the one that fits your room.