Clever Thinking: The Murphy Nightstand

Hide Your Night-Time Needs Away During the Day With This Creative Contraption

Small apartments in the city are a dime a dozen, and I've seen lots of amazing home furnishings developed for tiny spaces. The Murphy bed, a bed that folds down from the wall and back up again, was invented in the early 1900s by Californian William Murphy and the first ones were manufactured in San Francisco around 1918. Murphy lived in a one-room apartment that had a bed that took up all of his floor space, and being an avid entertainer, he decided to get creative. Thus, the Murphy bed was born. The Murphy Bed Company still exists today.

For those of you who need as much bedside space as you can get -- this,ear readers, is a Murphy nightstand! Even if you don't fold up your bed into the wall, why not fold away your nightstand, along with your alarm clock, book and other unsightly nighttime necessities! During the day this cute contraption disguises itself as a photograph or artwork on your wall. Then at night you can fold it down to reveal a built-in night table.

From the brilliant minds of Steven Dodds and ReadyMade magazine, click here to read the step-by-step instructions at ReadyMade. Note: This is a medium difficulty project.