8 creative murphy beds

The Murphy Bed is named after its inventor Lawrence Murphy in 1900, it is a name given to any bed that can be folded up against a wall or hidden and exposed as the home owner pleases. The Murphy Bed has risen back into prominence in contemporary design due to its ability to work around the increasingly smaller and space constrained living spaces available in most modern cities. It also has functional and aesthetic value to larger rooms and houses, lending flexibility and a sense of space to the living area. Here we have listed out some of the iconic Murphy Beds from over the last century.

1. Piano Bed

The famous Piano Bed is a variation on the most popular form of the Murphy Bed which involves a cabinet or mantlepiece that can be folded out to form a bed. this was especially important in the 19th and 20th century due to the fact that it allowed families of less than noble heritage to maintain a parlor room and a bedroom with the only room they had. The Parlour room was seen as a sign of opulence, wealth and high social status. Therefore there was a race to turn various pieces of furniture in the parlour room into a foldable bed. The Piano is probably the most amazing such innovation, for believe it or not, the piano bed above is both a functional piano and a bed.

2. Elevator Murphy Bed

The elevated bed is a fresh invention from modern living spaces. It borrows its cues from automated multi level car parking systems, and incorporates a simple pulley that is capable of lifting the bed to the ceiling and bringing it to floor level, as the use case demands. This system works especially well because it does away with the folding mechanism, which is often seen as being unsafe, and unreliable.

3. Tardis Murphy Bed

For fans of the Dr. Who series, there is the opportunity to live out your dreams, literally speaking, and pull down the TARDIS, to get your cozy, comfortable bed. This guarantees instant sleeping pleasure.

4. Dorm Murphy Bed

This idealised Dorm room makes excellent use of space and aesthetics, providing a student with all the usual features of a dorm, with half the space, but twice the luxury and feeling of airiness. This is a good example of the kind of problem that the Murphy Bed can solve.

5. Locker Murphy Bed

The classic locker bed is one of the most popular Murphy Bed constructions on the market today with many DIY guides available as well. This is sure to attract sports fans who can flaunt their favourite players names and numbers during the day, and yet have a comfortable bed to sleep in at night.

6. Murphy Bunk Bed

The murphy bunk bed uses all the innovative features of the murphy bed, and applies it to the more complicated problem of providing more than one bed in a living space. As can be seen from the concept above, the Murphy Bed does an amazing job in fitting two beds where there was previous only space for one.

7. DIY Murphy Beds

The modern DIY versions of the original Murphy beds are by far the most popular. A lot of people build it themselves, and unlike some of the more fancy ones on this chart, these beds simpler, more traditional Murphy beds are amazing in their own right, because they offer endless customisation options to furniture makers and house owners, and provide all the features of the Murphy Bed. The most amazing thing about the DIY beds are how well integrated these products look into the decor of the room.

8. Pet Murphy Bed

The last bed on the list, is the award winning pet Murphy bed, because there is absolutely no reason that your pets should not enjoy the same luxuries as you, and the pet Murphy bed accomplishes the important task of keeping the pets living area out of view when not needed, but warm and comfortable for your adorable pets during the night.

15 Amazing and Strange Google Earth Secrets.

Shipwrecked SS Ayrfield with Trees -33.836379, 151.080506 Homebush Bay, Sydney, Australia.

 Grand Prismatic Spring 44.525049, -110.83819 Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA.

Big Red Lips in the Desert 12°22’13.32″N, 23°19’20.18″E Sudan.

 Giant US Flag 7300 Airport Blvd, Houston, TX 77061, USA

Red Sea Governorate, Egypt (27°22’50.10″N, 33°37’54.62″E)

Coronado, California, USA (32°40’34.19″N 117° 9’27.58″W)

Solar Field 34.871778, -116.834192 Daggett, California

Hippo Pool 6°53’53.00″ S 31°11’15.40″ E Katavi National Park, Tanzania 

Come Downtown and Play 35.141533, -90.052695 Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Rainbow Plane Cathy Terrace Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey , USA ‎

Heart-Shaped Land Formation 20°56’15.47″S, 164°39’30.56″E New Caledonia

UTA Flight 772 Desert Memorial 16.864841, 11.953808 Sahara Desert, southern Ténéré of Niger.

Uluru / Ayers Rock -25.344375, 131.034401 Northern Territory, Austrlia.

Oil Fields 37°39’16.06″S 68°10’16.42″W Rio Negro, Argentina

 Multiple Landing Strips in the Desert 32.663367, -111.487618 Eloy, Arizona, USA

31 Mind Boggling Cricket Facts That’ll Make You Go Woah!

1. Sri Lanka has a sole Test win against the Aussies till date.

2. Sanath Jayasuriya has more ODI wickets than Shane Warne. 

3. Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla stadium and Bangabandhu stadium have hosted more ODIs than Lord’s. 

4. The highest number of runs scored in an over is not 36. It’s 77. 

This is how the over went - 0 4 4 4 6 6 4 6 1 4 1 0 6 6 6 6 6 0 0 4 0 1

But what many people don’t know is that the bowling team allowed the batting team to get close enough to the target and give them a chance to win so that they take risks and get out! 

5. Adam Gilchrist holds the record for playing the most number of Tests straight after debut.

He played 96 Test matches between 5^th November 1999 and 24^th January 2008 without dropping out from any of them. 

6. Ishant Sharma is responsible for all the three highest scores made by a batsman against India in the 21^stcentury. 

Alistair Cook – 294 Runs, Edgbaston 2011; Michael Clarke – 329 Runs, Sydney 2012; Brendon McCullum – 302 Runs, Wellington 2014. They were all dropped by Ishant Sharma early on in their innings. 

7. On 12^th January 1964, Indian spinner Bapu Nadkarni bowled 21 consecutive maiden overs vs England at Chennai. 

His figures were 32-27-5-0 which is an economy rate of 0.15 per over which is the lowest of all bowlers where 10 or more overs were bowled. 

8. Chris Martin and B.S Chandrasekhar have taken more Test wickets in their career than the test runs they scored. 

In 71 Tests, Martin has scored 123 runs, while he has 233 wickets to his credit, on the other hand Chandrasekhar has 167 runs to his name along with 242 wickets. 

9. Wilfred Rhodes took 4,204 wickets in First Class cricket.

No, it’s not a typo. He actually did take more than Four Thousand wickets. He also happened to score 39, 969 runs. 

10. Sir Jack Hobbs scored 199 centuries in his First Class career. 

11. In a World Cup Match, chasing 335, Sunil Gavaskar scored an unbeaten 36 off 174 balls.

In the Prudential World Cup of 1975, in the match between India and England, England set the target of 335 runs in 60 overs. Sunil Gavaskar batted throughout the innings and scored only 36 runs  of 174 balls. India managed to score only 132 runs in 60 overs with 7 wickets in hand. 

  

12. Jim Laker once took 19 wickets in a Test match. 

13. Saurav Ganguly is the only Indian player to score a century in the knock out stages of a World Cup. 

14. After Virat Kohli’s debut, India has chased down 300+ targets five times. 

And in 4 of these 5 matches, Virat Kohli scored a century. 

15. Mahela Jayawardene is the only batsman to have scored centuries in both the Semi-Final and Final of a World Cup.

16.  Sachin + Zaheer = (Almost) Kallis 

17. The player with the most number of not outs in Test cricket is not Rahul Dravid, but Courtney Walsh. 

He’s been unbeaten a total of 61 times in 185 innings. 

18. Saurav Ganguly is the only player to win four consecutive Man of the Match awards in ODIs. 

19. Dirk Nannes has represented both Australia and Netherlands in International Cricket. 

20. Shahid Afridi used a bat borrowed from Waqar Younis to score the fastest century in a ODI match. 

21. In 1989, along with Sachin Tendulkar, 23 other cricketers made their International debuts. The last one to retire before Sachin, was New Zealand's Chris Cairns, who retired in 2004. 

22. Inzamam Ul Haq took a wicket off the very first ball he bowled in International Cricket. 

23. Sir Don Bradman has just hit 6 sixes in his entire career. 

24. Virender Sehwag’s highest scores in T20, ODI and Tests are 119, 219 and 319 respectively.

119 was scored in an IPL game. 

25. Wasim Akram’s highest Test innings score of 257 is higher than that of Sachin Tendulkar's (who has 248 n.o. to his credit).

 26. The England Cricket Team is the only team in ODI history to lose a 60 over ODI Final (1979 World Cup), a 50 over ODI Final (1992 World Cup and 2004 Champions Trophy) and a 20 over ODI Final (2013 Champions Trophy) in ICC tournaments.

27. Lance Klusener, Abdur Razzaq, Shoaib Malik and Hashan Tillakaratne are the only players to have batted in 10 different batting positions in ODIs.

28. MS Dhoni and Suresh Raina have never scored an ODI ton outside of Asia.

29. Graeme Smith is the only player in the history of cricket to have captained a team for more than 100 Test matches.

30. Sachin Tendulkar got out for a duck only once in his Ranji career. Bhuvaneshwar Kumar got him.

31. Saeed Ajmal has never won a Man of the Match award in One Day International Cricket. 

50 Amazing facts about human body.

1.  We make around a litre of saliva every day. During our lifetime, we’ll produce enough to fill two swimming pools.

2.  The surface area of the human lung is the same size as a tennis court.

3.  The best-selling pharmaceutical drug in the world is a brand of statin – a cholesterol-lowering drug.

4.  The strongest muscles in the human body are the masseters, located either side of your mouth, which are used for chewing.

5.  You can’t see it, but your skin is constantly flaking. on average, people shed around 18kg of skin in their lifetime.

6.  Your left lung is smaller than your right one, to make space for your heart.

7.  Babies are born with 300 bones in their bodies but adults only have 206. This is because some bones fuse as you grow.

8.  Your brain generates about 25 watts of power while you are awake.

9.  It takes the body around 12 hours to completely digest food.

10.  Fingernails grow nearly four times faster than toenails. The ones on the hand you write with grow fastest.

11.  other than being burned, human hair is basically indestructible. It can’t be destroyed by water (no wonder it clogs up drains!) and is resistant to many acids and corrosive chemicals.

12.  Eyes stay the same size from birth – but your nose and ears grow throughout your lifetime.

13.  More people die of a heart attack on oonday than any other day of the week.

14.  The human scalp has around 100,000 hairs and you lose around 80 of them a day

15.  The indentation between your nose and upper lip is called the philtrum.

16.  Women suffer four times as many headaches as men, which is thought to be due to fluctuations in hormones.

17.  The average cost of developing a new prescription drug and making it available to the public is $1.13 billion.

18.  Your heart beats around 100,000 times a day.

19.  The largest cell in the human body is the female egg, while the smallest is the male sperm

20. Babies who are breastfed are less likely to be overweight as adults than those who are breastfed

21. In our lifetime most of us will eat around 7000 times our weight in food

22.  By the time they reach 60, most people have lost 50% of their taste buds.

23. The largest artery in the body, the aorta, is about the same width as a garden hose. Meanwhile, capillaries are so small, 10 of them put together are the thickness of a human hair.

24. Right-handed people live an average of nine years longer than left-handed ones.

25. A sneeze can exit your nose at 166km/h.

26. Your brain is made up of 75 to 80% water. This is why being dehydrated affects its ability to work properly.

27. As well as having unique fingerprints, we also have unique tongue prints.

28. The tooth is the only body part that can’t heal itself

29. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

30. The average person breaks wind 14 times a day.

31. The smallest bones in your body are in your ears.

32. Your thigh bone is stronger than concrete

33. When you laugh heartily, the linings of your blood vessels relax, increasing blood flow for up to 45 minutes.

34. Although your brain processes pain messages when other parts of your body hurt, it can’t feel pain itself.

35. A woman’s egg survives around 18 hours after being released from the ovary but sperm lasts for five to seven days after ejaculation, so depending on when you ovulate, it’s possible to conceive several days after having intercourse.

36. About one person in every 20 has an extra pair of ribs.

37. The biggest muscle in your body is your gluteus maximus, in your buttock. The smallest is in your ear and is thinner than a cotton thread.

38. Your stomach gets a new lining every three days. If it didn’t, the acids in your gut that digest food would also digest your stomach.

39. We’re taller in the morning than in the evening. During the day, cartilage between our bones gets compressed by activities such as sitting and standing so by the end of the day, we’re about 1cm shorter.

40. The cornea is the only living tissue in the body that doesn't have any blood vessels.

41. The space between your eyebrows is called the glabella.

42. Bones are about 75% water.

43. Blood accounts for about 8% of your body weight.

44. People who suffer from gum disease are twice as likely to have a heart attack or stroke.

45. Hair and fingernails are made of the same substance – keratin.

46. We start losing around 7000 brain cells a day once we turn 35. They can never be replaced.

47. There are approximately 96,000km of blood vessels in your body

48. Studies have shown smelling the herb rosemary may improve your memory.

49. Smokers have up to 10 times as many wrinkles as non-smokers.

50, Sex burns around four calories a minute.

Facts That Will Blow Your Mind !

1. The bushes and clouds in Super Mario Bros are the same, just colored differently.

2. There are warehouses so big they have their own WEATHER.

3. In 1903 the Wright brothers flew for 59 seconds. 38 years later the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. 28 years after that, we landed on the moon.

4. When a male bee climaxes, their testicles explode then they die.

5. Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.

6. Duck Hunt is two player. A controller in port 2 controls the ducks.

7. There are more fake flamingos in the world than real flamingos.

8. The adult human has two to nine pounds of bacteria in his or her body.

9. Blue whales heart is the size of a VW Beetle and that you could swim through some of its arteries.

10. Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas, which, given enough time, turns into people.

11. All of the gold mined in the history of the world would more or less fit into a 20x20x20 meter cube.

From wikipedia:
A total of 165,000 tonnes of gold have been mined in human history, as of 2009.1 This is roughly equivalent to 5.3 billion troy ounces or, in terms of volume, about 8,500 cubic meters, or a 20.4m cube.

12. There are more atoms in a single glass of water, than glasses of water in all the oceans of the Earth.

13. Half of all humans who have ever lived, died from malaria.

14. Martin Sheen’s original name was Ramon Estevez. He had two sons, Emilio and Carlos. Emilio kept the Estevez, but Carlos changed his name to Charlie Sheen. He changed his stage name to ride the coattails of his father’s changed stage name.

15. Alcohol is considered a performance-enhancing drug in competitive shooting competitions.

16. Once Charlie Chaplin entered a contest for “Charlie Chaplin look-alikes” and he came in third.

17. If you shuffle a deck of cards, chances are that the new order of playing cards has never existed before.

18. Of all the people in history that have reached 65 years of age, half of them are living right now.

19. Fold over a piece of paper 42 times and it will reach the moon

20. Pirates wear eye patches so that they can see in the dark.
When they go to a lower deck with poor lighting, they can remove the patch and see better with that eye since it’s used to the dark, whereas the other eye would take several minutes to adjust to the change in light.

21. It took thousands of years after domesticating the horse to invent the stirrup.

22. 54 million people alive right now will be dead within 12 months.

23. You replace every particle in your body every seven years. You are literally not the same person you were 7 years ago.

24. When your mother was born, she was already carrying the egg that would become you.

25. A tree is the opposite of your lungs. Physically and functionally.

26. Mayonnaise is made from oil and eggs.


27. The sun is 400x further from the earth than the moon, but the moon is 400x smaller than the sun.

28. All the humans on the planet could fit into 1 cubic mile.

29. Goats have rectangular pupils.

30. If there was no space between any of its atoms, Earth would be the size of a baseball.

31. If you put all the earth’s ants in one pile, and all the earth’s humans in another pile, the pile made of ants would be bigger (have more mass).

32. You’re not stuck in traffic, you are traffic.

33. Sloths mistakenly grab their arms instead of the branches of a tree, and they fall to their deaths.

34. Penguins will give their mate a pebble as a way of proposing.

35. Butterflies are cannibals.

36. Turtles can breathe out of their butts

37. A small percentage of static on televisions is actually radioactive resonance from the big bang 13 billion years ago.

38. It takes a photon, on average, 200,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, then just a little over 8 minutes from the Sun’s surface to your eyeball

39. Both of Jack Black’s parents were rocket scientists.

40. A pigs orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

41. Velociraptors were just slightly bigger than chickens.

42. A pencil has the potential to draw a line 38 miles long.

43. There is a species of jellyfish that is immortal (turritopsis nutricula).

44. The largest air force in the world is the US Air Force. The second largest air force in the world is the US Navy.

45. Horseshoe crabs have eyes on their tail.

46. A Nintendo had over twice the computing power of the first lunar lander.

47. Lighters were invented before matches.

48. Psychology is the brain trying to comprehend itself.

49. If a man never cut his beard, by the time he dies it would be 30 feet long.

50. 1 sperm has 37.5MB of DNA information in it. That means a normal ejaculation represents a data transfer of 1587GB in about 3 seconds

51. The population of Ireland is still 2 million less than it was before the potato famine, 160 years ago.

52. The last president that wasn’t a Republican or Democrat was Millard Fillmore in 1853

53. You have 0.5% chance of being related to Genghis Khan.

54. The USA is an older country than Germany.
Germany became one country only in 1871.

55. Napoleon was not unusually short. The French inch was longer than the British inch, so while he was thought to be 5’2” by most of the world, in reality he was closer to 5’7”, an average height for a Frenchman.

56. If you keep going North, you will eventually go South. If you keep going East, you will never go West.

57. Vending machines kill 4 times as many people as sharks.

58. There is a garbage swirl in the ocean the size of Texas.

59. Black HP printer ink costs roughly 1,400 times as much as crude oil, gallon for gallon.

60. George Washington spent about 7% of his annual salary on booze.

61. A Mosquito has 47 teeth.

62. A banana is actually a berry. A strawberry isn’t.

Sixty Amazing Facts !!!

1. In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi.

2. The increased electricity used by modern appliance parts is causing a shift in the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa.

3. The idea for "tribbles" in "Star Trek" came from gerbils, since some gerbils are actually born pregnant.

4. Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises.

5. Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even though he spent the entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered copy of the Toledo Post-Dispatch.

6. Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling.

7. The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren't for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over.

8. The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra.

9. The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball.

10, Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say "gesundheit" to a sneezer was never repealed.

11. Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound.

12. SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below.

13. Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers.

14. Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam.

15. Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting.

16. The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich.

17. The Air Force's F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during research into how bumblebees fly.

18. You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite.

19. Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first latex condoms were produced. It's not widely publicized for obvious reasons.

20. Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays.

21. The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver.

22. The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests who held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would instinctively grab at the ball with their claws, thus enabling players to catch them.

23. A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White.

24. The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his "signature" on the keyboard.

25. The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway.

26. King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe.

27. Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the Internet, libraries that previously sank into their foundations under the weight of their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds.

28. In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation.

29. Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system.

30. Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water.
31. Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, was patterned after President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy.

32. Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game.

33. Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels.

34. You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them.

35. To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine.

36. Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game. For Canadians who don't play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten.

37. A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet.

38. A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting the practice of picking one's nose, claiming that the health benefits of keeping nasal passages free from infectious blockages far outweigh the negative social connotations.

39. Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad Magazine. Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly an avid reader.

40. Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel.

41. At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather.
42. Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas.

43. If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave behind its weight in honey.

44. Due to the angle at which the optic nerve enters the brain, staring at a blue surface during sex greatly increases the intensity of orgasms.
45. Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs.

46. Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost "an arm and a leg."

47. When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small intestine.

48. Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during summer months.
49. Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today.

50. If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian.

51. When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby.

52. In WWII the US military planned to airdrop over France propaganda in the form of Playboy magazine, with coded messages hidden in the models' turn-ons and turn-offs. The plan was scrapped because of a staple shortage due to rationing of metal.

53. Although difficult, it's possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together two Cool Ranch Doritos.

54. Napoleon's favorite type of wood was knotty chestnut.

55. The world's smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12.

56. Due to the natural "momentum" of the ocean, saltwater fish cannot swim backwards.

57. In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives.

58. It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville, Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo.

59. The "nine lives" attributed to cats is probably due to their having nine primary whiskers.

60. The original inspiration for Barbie dolls comes from dolls developed by German propagandists in the late 1930s to impress young girls with the ideal notions of Aryan features. The proportions for Barbie were actually based on those of Eva Braun.

61. The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry.