The gap is 8 inches when the bed is down but temporarily gets much smaller as the bed folds up. Would love some ideas on how to fill this so my pillow doesn't keep falling in lol

My new apartment has a Murphy bed, which means there is a nearly foot long gap between the bed frame and the wall, where the bed is meant to be stored. Unfortunately this makes it very difficult to do things like read or watch TV while laying in bed.

This is not a new problem. There is this similar post on reddit that recommends placing a board along the L brackets and screwing it in. While I do already have these L brackets and this solves the problem of pillows falling in the gap, I expect it wouldn't be comfortable to lay on for reading and it makes it so I would have to unscrew and remove the board whenever I do want to actually fold the bed up into the wall.

An improvement on this option is to buy a bunch of bed wedges to stuff in the gap, probably by placing on top of the board. This worked for at least one person but I'm worried that my gap is too large for these products to work.

This solution fully fills the gap but makes significant modifications to the wall space, which I'm not sure my landlord would allow. And again, it runs into the issue of having to be taken apart to fold the bed up.

Solutions on other websites (other than this awesome one) are usually dealing with much smaller gaps where things like "stuff it with a body pillow" is sufficient. This one seems decent.

Finally, most products on Amazon made for this purpose do not go up to 11-12 inches or would be very expensive to buy enough copies to totally fill the gap.

So I've come here. r/DIY, how would you solve this problem?

Gap dimensions:

11.25 inches between wall and frame.

22 inches between ground and top of frame.

63.5 inches long.

Hello, this is my first reddit post. I sleep on a wall/Murphy bed. It’s very comfortable but there’s a gap between the bed and the wall. In order to support my head, I’ve been experimenting with rolled up 2” foam but it seems to either fall too deep or rise too high for my neck to be comfortable. The gap is about 7” from wall to bed and 9” from wall to mattress.

I’d appreciate any ideas on how to properly support my neck.

I can’t seem to upload pictures here so I’m including a link to a public Dropbox folder with the images.

Thank you!

wall bed pics

I’m installing a Murphy bed, and currently the front is made of two melamine panels bolted to the bed base. They are fixed together and the whole bed opens downwards. I’m hoping to fill the small gap between the panels as I will be priming and painting the front of the bed and adding trim etc shortly. Does anyone have recommendations for the best filler to use, noting that when the bed folds down, I assume there will still be slight movement of the panels?

Hello, I need a way to stop my pillows sneaking through a gap in the headboard overnight… Without ruining the appearance - I know we could just nail a plank over it. Any other ideas? It’s 11” high by 57”. The wood is some kind of bamboo composite. Thank you in advance.

Here's some photos to help explain the situation: https://imgur.com/a/fGR9hMc

I've got about 1-2 inches of missing floorboards in the corner of my new studio where the Murphy bed is. It bothers me that this is open because I'm concerned about mice/insects getting in and I'd like to try and close it off.

The trouble is that this is a cramped space (right between the murphy bed and the wall -- I'd say 1 foot of opening?) and it's quite a big gap to cover. I considered something like sealing foam but that would look VERY UGLY for this much of a gap to fill.

If I had to guess I think the person that installed this just ripped out the pre-existing base-boards to make room for the Murphy bed to be flush on the wall, and then never fixed the exposed area.

I'm looking for some ideas on how to fill this up -- right now all I can think of something like new base boards?