Why not? It looks like a great storage space for checkbook, files, books, even the printer. Then you can have a sleek desk with only a surface for the laptop like in the fancy show offices!

Looks to me like this piece would work in a dining room too.

I would paint it out the same color as the walls, just a different sheen, satin.

It would work great in an office too. Maybe get a Samsung The Frame TV to fit in the recess and you can use as a guest TV and to display art when you are working. Your current TV is too big for that unit.

Murphy beds aren't that great to sleep in and those units also take up quite a bit of wall space. I would rather have a sofa bed. Something I could sit in every day and use as a guest bed once in a while.

I think that piece would be very useful for office storage. The large open section behind the TV could be corkboard, or perhaps large art since the room is also a guest room. I like Lyn Nielson’s idea to paint it the same color as the wall, or even painting the wall to match the wood. This is a Benjamin Moore color.

the murphy bed and media console will look too cluttered in the same room and you will have a hard time matching the wood color. Instead of the murphy bed I suggest a sleeper sofa.

We actually have sleeper sofa so that might fit

What color is your desk and couch?

I would not do the murphy bed and that in the same sapce but I agree would work for office stuff and better than going to the dump.

Of course this could be used in your office/guest room. What needs to you have for storage in your office? This unit doesn't have a lot of closed storages. It seems more of a display shelving unit - especially with the center removed. That might not be a bad thing. However, it is a large piece of furniture (what is the depth?) in the room and I'd think about what you need to have in an office and how it will all fit. Are you thinking you would remove the center piece and put a desk in there to sit at?

I agree that murphy beds are not the greatest. A good quality sofa bed is much better.

In rethinking this, we decided this unit might go better in my husband’s home office. He has a need for display space and printer. He works from home. He also has a light colored wood L-shaped desk. We could also paint this if we decided the woods don’t go together.

I’m curious why folks don’t like Murphy beds. Every guest we’ve ever had dislikes sleeper sofas due to the crummy mattress and support bar in the middle. Murphy beds have a real mattress. What am I missing?

I love murphy beds.

Nancy - Sleeper sofas have improved significantly.

Murphy beds might have a real mattress, but it is sitting on a hard surface with no springs or any "give". I sleep on one quite regularly when visiting my parents, as that is what they now have in the guest bedroom of their new much smaller house. They paid for the better mattress. I wake up feeling like someone beat me up! An air mattress would have been better!

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