A Door That Started as a Hinge Problem
Murphy Door® began in 2012 with a single hidden door, built by Jeremy Barker, a career firefighter, for his own house. It became the company that built the modern hidden door industry.
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Murphy Door® began in 2012 with a single hidden door, built into a home theater by Jeremy Barker, a career firefighter, for his own house. The hinge on the market couldn’t carry the weight of a full-size door without sagging over time. So he built his own: a surface-mounted hinge system engineered to hold up under daily use. That hinge became the foundation of a company that now designs, engineers, and manufactures hidden doors, secret rooms, panic rooms, and functional wall beds for homes, businesses, and productions across the country.
From a Home Theater to a Hollywood Call Sheet
Word travels fast when a door disappears into a wall. Murphy Door®’s work found its way onto television and film sets, including features on HGTV and DIY Network, and it built a name inside an industry that builds illusions for a living. In March 2025, Murphy Door® supplied the hidden doors for the John Wick Experience at AREA15 in Las Vegas, an immersive attraction built around the film franchise. Lionsgate’s Gene Rogers credited the doors with giving the experience its “mysterious energy,” the kind of detail that turns a walkthrough into a memory.
From Screens to Spaces
The same instinct that put a secret door in a living room started showing up somewhere else: in restaurants, bars, gaming halls, casinos, and speakeasies looking for a way to surprise a guest who has seen everything on a screen already. As more of daily life moved onto a phone, Murphy Door® leaned the other direction, building physical moments that pull people back into a room together. A hidden door rarely photographs well. It plays best live, in front of someone who did not see it coming, and building that moment has become as much a part of the company’s business as the doors themselves.
Made in America, Down to the Hinge
Murphy Door®’s hardware was originally machined by outside manufacturers in Salt Lake City. It is now built entirely in-house, at Murphy Door® Metal Works, the company’s own machine shop in Ogden, Utah. Every hinge, track, and bracket for the company’s doors and wall beds is engineered and produced under one roof, by a team that used to be outside consultants and is now Murphy Door®’s own staff: design engineers, structural engineers, mechanical engineers, and manufacturing engineers, working the problem from first sketch to finished part. That shop also takes on outside custom hardware work, building whatever a client’s special project calls for, including pieces that sound impossible over the phone. Between the engineering team and the shop floor, Murphy Door® now completes a custom unit roughly every six minutes.
Where It’s Built
The Ogden campus covers five and a half acres across six buildings, nearly 100,000 square feet of manufacturing that produces doors and wall beds for the western half of the country and houses the machine shop’s own fleet: CNC machines, tube lasers, laser and plasma cutters, robotic welders and benders, lathes, and the rest of the equipment it takes to build almost anything a customer can draw. A second, highly automated plant in Lexington, Kentucky covers the eastern half, turning most custom orders around in two to four weeks. A third facility is underway in Dallas, Texas.
Rigby, Idaho
Murphy Door®’s newest acquisition sits on the Snake River in Rigby, Idaho, now operating as Snake River Hardwoods. The facility cures, planes, molds, cuts, texture-mills, finishes, and packages hardwood to a project’s exact specifications, including full home packages built to a designer’s or architect’s plans. It is one of the few facilities in the country producing textured hardwood veneer, finished or unfinished, at the level mountain-town architecture demands, and its work is already showing up on projects in Jackson Hole, Yellowstone, and Park City.
Keeping It Moving
Murphy Door® runs its own freight line, MDIT LLC, a fleet of semis that carries raw and semi-finished material and hardware between its facilities around the country. Owning that link end to end keeps material moving between plants without waiting on an outside carrier.
What’s Next
Beyond its plants in Utah, Kentucky, Idaho, and the one underway in Texas, Murphy Door® is planning further expansion into Florida and Pennsylvania, along with a facility in Boise. Showrooms in each are expected to be announced soon.