My grandparents have a Murphy bed in their apartment. Their reason for buying it at the time was they also used the flat as a small doctor's office and the bedr

My grandparents have a Murphy bed in their apartment. Their reason for buying it at the time was they also used the flat as a small doctor's office and the bedroom was the waiting room during day. It has a wooden back plate on the underside so that it looks like a large black wall closet when hidden. I think one advantage of this system over the one from the article is that it requires less vertical space.