Space Age Closets builds custom Murphy wall beds for Toronto homes and condos, real beds that fold up against the wall inside fitted cabinetry, giving you the floor back every morning. Toronto living space is too valuable to hand a third of a room to a piece of furniture you only use at night. Here are the five biggest benefits our clients get from a space-saving wall bed, and why the upgrade pays off every single day.
1. Get More Space in the Bedroom
The bed is the single largest object in almost any bedroom, and it works for only eight hours a day. Fold it away and the master bedroom suddenly has room for the things that never fit before: a proper dressing area, extra wardrobe storage, a reading chair, a hobby table, or simply open floor for a yoga mat. Our custom wall beds in Toronto are designed around what you want the room to do by day, so the space earns its keep around the clock instead of waiting for bedtime.
2. Upgrade a Bachelor or Studio Apartment
In a bachelor apartment the bed doesn’t just take up space. It defines the whole room. Everything you do happens next to it, and everyone who visits sits beside it. A wall bed changes the character of a studio completely: by day you have a genuine living room with space for a full-size table or a proper desk, and at night the bed folds down in under a minute. For downtown Toronto studios and one-room condos, no other single change reclaims as much usable space.
3. Add Play Space for Your Young Ones
If the kids’ toys have annexed your living room, a wall bed in the children’s bedroom wins that territory back. With the bed folded up against the wall, held securely by its mechanism, with safety features built into the design, the bedroom floor becomes daily play space, and the toys can live where the kids actually use them. There’s a bonus most parents appreciate: a bed that has to be folded away is a bed that gets made every morning, and the habit sticks.
4. Clear Away the Clutter of a Bed
Even a well-made bed is a big, soft, busy surface, and an unmade one, piled with blankets, pillows and yesterday’s clothes, can make an otherwise tidy room feel chaotic. Folding the bed up pulls all of that out of sight in one motion and leaves a clean cabinetry wall in its place. The room instantly reads calmer and more modern. Many of our clients pair the bed with a matching custom wall unit on either side, so the whole wall works as one seamless piece of storage.
5. Add Real Sophistication
If the phrase “Murphy bed” makes you picture a creaky contraption from an old movie, the modern reality will surprise you. Today’s folding mechanisms are smooth, quiet and effortless, and because our wall beds are custom built, the cabinet is designed to suit your room, your choice of finish, door style and hardware, integrated with surrounding shelving. Closed, a well-designed wall bed doesn’t look like a hidden bed at all; it looks like fine built-in cabinetry, and it raises the finish level of the whole room.
A Wall Bed Built for Your Space
At Space Age Closets we’ve been designing and building custom cabinetry in Toronto since 1989, and every wall bed we make is built for the specific room it goes into, measured, designed, finished and installed by our own team. Whether it’s a condo studio, a kids’ room or a master bedroom that needs to work harder, we’ll show you exactly how much space you can get back.
Space-Saving Wall Bed Questions, Answered
How much floor space does a wall bed actually free up?
The bed’s entire footprint, the largest single block of floor in the room, becomes usable space every morning. In practical terms that’s enough room for a desk and chair, a play area, or a full seating arrangement in a studio, in the exact spot where a permanent bed would sit all day doing nothing.
Are wall beds safe for a child’s bedroom?
Yes, when they’re properly built and installed. The cabinet is anchored to the wall and the mechanism holds the bed securely in the closed position. It can’t simply fall open. We design and install every unit ourselves and walk the family through safe daily operation, so parents know exactly how it works before we leave.
Do I have to strip the bedding every time I fold it up?
No, the bed folds up with the sheets, duvet and pillows in place, held by retaining straps. That’s what makes a wall bed practical for everyday use rather than just for guests: closing it takes seconds, not a linen change.
Is a wall bed hard to open and close every day?
Not at all. The mechanism is counterbalanced, so it does most of the lifting for you, one person can raise or lower the bed smoothly in well under a minute, no strength required. Daily use is exactly what the hardware is engineered for.
Does folding the bed away damage the mattress over time?
No. The mattress lies flat on a proper platform whether the bed is open or closed, it’s never bent or compressed the way a sofa-bed mattress is. Retaining straps simply hold it in place while the bed is upright, so daily folding doesn’t wear it out.
Ready to get your floor space back? Call Space Age Closets at (647) 394-7557 for a free in-home design consultation anywhere in Toronto and the GTA.
