Best Cabinet Bed Brands of 2026 (Compared)

The best cabinet bed brands share four traits: a sturdy wood cabinet, a mattress made to fold inside it, a platform rated for two adults, and a freestanding design that needs no wall mounting. In 2026, Night and Day Furniture and Arason Enterprises meet all four, and they take noticeably different approaches to the same idea.

We carry both, and we're an official dealer for Arason, so we spend a lot of time explaining how they differ to customers furnishing a guest room or a small home. One builds credenza-style cabinets in rubberwood with built-in outlets and a choice of mattress. The other builds a patented chest design with a flip top and a foam mattress already inside. Neither is simply better, and the right pick depends on the room, the budget and how often the bed will be slept on.

How We Picked the Best Cabinet Bed Brands

A cabinet bed is only as good as the parts you can't see when it's closed, so we compared cabinet bed brands on the details published for every model we carry:

• What the cabinet is made of, and whether it stands on its own.

• The mattress that comes with it, and how thick it is.

• The weight rating of the sleeping platform.

• Warranty coverage, sizes offered and what each costs in our store.

The specs and prices below come from the product pages in our cabinet Murphy bed collection, so you can check any of it against the listing yourself.

Best Cabinet Bed Brands at a Glance

Night and Day Furniture: Best Overall Range

Night and Day has the broadest cabinet bed lineup we carry. The company is headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, designs its furniture in-house there, and manufactures in Malaysia and Vietnam, which our post on where Night and Day beds are made covers in more depth. Most of its cabinets use rubberwood, and most carry a limited 10-year cabinet warranty with 3 years on the supplied mattress.

The Murphy Cube: Best Value

The Murphy Cube is our top pick for value across the whole category. It's a queen that stands only 36.6 inches tall, assembles in about 15 minutes without tools, and starts at $1,697 for the cabinet only or $1,897 with the gel memory foam mattress. It doesn't include outlets or USB ports, so it can sit anywhere in the room.

The Credenza Queens

The Clover, Daisy, Poppy, Sagebrush and Ranchero share one cabinet size, 63.5 by 23.7 by 41.1 inches, open to 83.1 inches long, and rest the mattress on 7 bed slats. What separates them is style: the Clover is the classic credenza, the Daisy leans cottage, the Sagebrush has a modern twist, the Poppy comes in six finishes from Seafoam to Antique Blue, and the Ranchero comes in Wildwood Brown or Wildwood Vintage White. All five have built-in outlets and USB ports, and prices run from $2,497 for a Clover cabinet to $3,197 for a Poppy or Ranchero with the hybrid pocket coil mattress.

Twin, Full and Murphy Beds With Desks

The Orion covers twin and full at just 20.5 inches deep, starting at $1,297. For a home office, the Siesta Desk Bed is a Murphy bed with a desk built in, a standing-height desk with bookshelves by day and a twin bed by night. The Artisan Desk Bed goes bigger, with a 24 by 76 inch desktop that folds down into a twin.

The Louvre: Best Luxury Pick

At $3,283, the Louvre is Night and Day's premium queen. Its cabinet arrives fully assembled with the base packed inside, and it adds folding trays, a large rolling storage drawer, a higher sleep platform, dual power and USB, and a premium tri-fold gel memory foam mattress.

You can see every model in one place in our Night and Day Furniture collection.

Arason Enterprises: The Best Chest-Style Design

Arason's Creden-ZzZ design is covered by U.S. Patent 7,574,758, and the patent filing for Arason's folding cabinet bed describes a cabinet with a telescoping slide-out support platform, credited to inventors Jon and Jane Arason. In practice, the large storage drawer telescopes out on felt-covered runners to become the bed frame, and the front panel folds down into a solid platform with no springs and no bar in your back.

The flip top is Arason's standout feature. Latches and safety chains sit hidden inside the cabinet, and the top opens without clearing it, so lamps and photos can stay in place. Most queens measure 64 by 23 by 41.5 inches, open to 81 inches, and weigh 240 pounds, and every model ships semi-assembled with a 6-inch tri-fold foam mattress included in the price.

Style is where Arason stretches. The Kingston has natural wicker inlays in amber and honey tones, the Key West and Verona use a reeded front, the Bridger has a light oak farmhouse finish, the Brussels carries a circular molding inspired by 18th-century European design, and the Cottage White has a beadboard look with wood knobs. Prices sit in a tight band from $2,200 to $2,578, and our Arason cabinet bed lineup shows every finish. Arason products are in high demand, so we reserve orders directly with the manufacturer.

Sealy and Night and Day: The San Sebastian

The Sealy San Sebastian is a collaboration worth knowing about. It pairs an acacia solid wood and veneer cabinet on a bi-fold metal frame with a Sealy gel-infused memory foam mattress, 5 inches thick and 75 inches long. The cabinet arrives fully assembled, works as a sideboard or TV stand when closed, and at 19.7 inches deep it's the shallowest cabinet bed we carry. It comes in twin, full and queen, in Espresso or White.

How the Two Main Brands Compare on the Details

Mattress choice

Night and Day gives you the most say. On the Murphy Cube and the credenza queens you can take the gel memory foam Complete Set, upgrade to hybrid pocket coils for $200 more, or buy the cabinet on its own if you already own a compatible tri-fold. Arason keeps it simple with one 6-inch tri-fold foam mattress included in every price, and its Madrid model spells out the layers as 4 inches of base foam under 2 inches of softer foam.

Power and storage

Both brands build power into most of their cabinets. Night and Day's credenza queens, Louvre, Siesta and Artisan have outlets and USB ports, while the Murphy Cube and Orion leave them out. Arason adds two USB connections and an outlet on most models, with a 6-foot cord from the back of the base. For storage, Night and Day's credenza drawer measures 41 by 19.5 by 5.5 inches inside, and Arason lists a 9-inch drawer on most models and an 11-inch drawer on the Cottage White.

Footprint

The two are closer than they look. Arason's queens are 23 inches deep, and the Key West and Verona list about 11 square feet of floor. Night and Day's credenza queens are 23.7 inches deep and list about 10 square feet, while the Murphy Cube trades a deeper 26.4-inch cabinet for one of the lowest queen cabinets we carry.

Price

Arason sits in a narrow band from $2,200 to $2,578 with the mattress included. Night and Day spans far more ground, from $1,297 for an Orion twin cabinet to $3,283 for the Louvre, so it covers both the most affordable and the most premium options we carry.

Night and Day vs Arason: Which Brand Fits You?

Choose Night and Day if you want a TV surface that stays usable with the bed open, twin or desk-bed options, or the chance to upgrade to a hybrid pocket coil mattress for nightly sleep. Choose Arason if you like the chest look, want the mattress included at one price, or need a flip top that keeps your décor in place. Our cabinet Murphy bed comparison chart lines up the main models spec by spec if you'd like to go deeper.

What About Other Murphy Bed Brands?

Search for the best Murphy bed brands and many of the results mix freestanding cabinet beds with wall beds, which are a different product. Among Murphy cabinet bed brands, Night and Day and Arason are the two we stock. A wall bed has to be fastened to the wall, while every freestanding cabinet bed from these makers stands on its own like any piece of furniture and moves with you. If you're shopping for a Murphy bed and can't drill into the walls, that difference narrows the field quickly. We focus on freestanding cabinet beds because they suit the renters, studio owners and guest rooms we hear from every day.

Shop Both Brands With Us

We carry both Night and Day and Arason, so we can help you compare models side by side and check availability before you order. Call us at (916)-262-7257 with any questions. Every order over $199 ships free, bulky freight included, 0% APR financing is available through Shop Pay, and our 30-day price beat guarantee means a lower advertised price on the exact same model gets beaten by 1%. Everything else for the room is at Archic Furniture, our whole-home furniture store.