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.
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Need ideas on how to fill this Murphy bed gap between the mattress and the wall.
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Hello community!
I’m looking for inspiration for probably a little fun project.
We have this white radiator on the wall that doesn’t allow me to get the bed closer to the bed and that gap always ends up filled with all the plush toys and blankets.
My initial thought was to build some kind of base support the same height as the bed and then put a mattress gap filler on top of that. But I’m not sure about it. I’m a total beginner at DYI.
The gap is around 11cm.
I’d appreciate any advice here. Thanks!