New Addition

I've been thinking of adding a new addition to our already diverse product line. This product, I think, will revolutionize the children's bedroom market. It is the Hiddenbed. This simple bed caught my eye surfing the web and I haven't quit thinking about it yet!

Here's the concept. It is a desk then it's a bed. It kind of like our murphy bed (see www.wwbeds.com/murphy.htm ), where the bed folds down from the cabinet. But it even better than that. The bed is made so that things on the desk, like a computer, papers, and a drink, can stay during the transition from desk to bed. No need to move anything. You could download files while sleeping.

It is all in the mechanism. This patented product from www.hiddenbed.com allows the desk to stay perpendicular to the floor. It also slows the motion down, so that it will not be dangerous for the little ones. The entire transformation takes less than 5 seconds.

I plan on building my first on in the next few weeks. I am currently working on getting the hardware shipped from Uruguay, South America. The hardware is reasonably priced, but what is killing me is the shipping and wire transfer fees. It will cost $50 to transfer the funds and $95 for shipping. With those cost I can see why most companies are charging around $2000 for one. As you read in my last post, I am trying to break into the market by artificially keeping my prices low. I am hoping to stay below that $2000 mark.

The company is real restrictive on beds that they will allow us to build. All new designs have to be pre-approved by them before we market them. I can understand that. Their name is on the product and they don't want to ruin it with some bad, fly-by-night company.

Let me know what you think about this. I hope my customers get as excited about this as I am. Keep looking for building pictures on this and other new projects. Comments are always welcome.

Where have I been?

It has been along time since I've posted anything new. Alot of things have happened since then. On a pervious post, I noted that we were gearing up to build Murphy Beds. Well that has exploded. Since then I've build 25-30 complete beds. See http://wwbeds.com/murphy.htm for a few of them.

To give you a little backgroung, In Atlanta Augest 2004, I researched the different types mechenism on the market. This was at the IWF woodworking show. I found that the creat-a-bed mechnism to be the best. With this system the bed is mounted to the wall at 3-4 studs. No need to mount to the floor and ruin your flooring. I also cope around the customers base molding. These two features right here sold me on the mechnicsm. It doesn't become a perminate fixture, you can move it very easy. Features that make it even better are the pneumatic piston lift, and there is no special mattress to buy. With this system there is never any springs to adjust and the pistons are tested at 10,000 revelutions. (see other features) That is 27 years of everyday use! It uses any type of innerspring mattress up to 12" thick. The only set back that I had with the mattress is if a customer wanted to use an ultra lite foam mattress, the foot of the bed wanted to float of the ground. This was easily fixed by adding a little weight at the foot.

My stratigy to sell these beds were to artificially keep the prices down for about 6 months while trying to get my foot into the market. During this time I'll try to get my name out there and to get the web site moving up in the search engines. The name part of that has worked but the search engines has let me down a little. People do stunble across the web site, but not in the numbers expected. I plan to keep the prices where they are for another month or so.

I plan on designing a Murphe bed for dogs. In the mean time keep watching my Current Projects link to see what I'm building.