Folding desks, hide-away dining tables and Murphy beds are the focus of our latest lookbook, exploring homes where pull-out furniture allows rooms to be used in multiple ways.
In houses and apartments with limited space, fold-out or wheel-out furniture offers a clever space-saving solution.
The Murphy bed, which incorporates a hinge that allows it to be stored vertically against a wall when not in use, is one of the most widespread examples.
Architects and interior designers have also found similar ways of creating occasional dining tables and desks, using hinges or castors to make the furniture easy to move.
Below, we've picked out eight examples including a guesthouse in California, a compact Hong Kong apartment and a home inside London's Barbican estate. For more visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive, discover more lookbooks. Other recent examples explore wooden kitchens, statement bathtubs and nightclub interiors.

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Room For One More, UK, by Studio Ben Allen
An adaptable joinery unit creates a work-from-home space and a children's bedroom in this renovation of a flat in London's brutalist Barbican estate by local firm Studio Ben Allen.
The floor-to-ceiling unit creates a new partition wall through the middle of the home. On one side is a red fold-out desk and on the other a bunk bed with a pull-out armchair slotted underneath.
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Poirot's Bijou Apartment, UK, by Intervention Architecture
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