Over 35 years ago, Ruth Murphy - our Mother, began what is now known as Murphy’s Furniture in the basement of our large old family home in Southeast Hillsboro. With an investment of $50 to purchase the remains of a garage sale (too good of a buy to pass up), and a lot of elbow grease, she opened Murphy Manor Antiques.

It wasn’t long before her “Basement Boutique” took over every room in the house. Her strong customer following caused the business to grow and expand. The business was moved to downtown Main Street in Hillsboro, which became Hillsboro Nostalgia Center.

The business then evolved into the first Murphy’s Furniture, which primarily focused on high quality, unfinished wood products at the best possible price. Incredible selection and customer service were always top priority.

Murphy’s Furniture continued to evolve to meet the growing needs of a constantly changing Western Washington County community. The store added new product lines, a full-service floor fashion center and a Pittsburg paint department. We tried several locations, until Mom bought property at our current location in Cornelius just west of Hillsboro on Southwest Tuality Valley Highway.

With every change we learned from our experience and listened to our customers. We have maintained affordable quality selection of ready to finish furniture. Our largest line is locally manufactured and family owned Bridgetown Furniture specializing in solid pine. We carry an excellent selection of unfinished cherry, oak and maple from national brands like Woodcraft Industries, Inc.

We supply Restonic mattresses, a national brand of top quality mattresses sold at a reasonable price.
These are locally manufactured by Oregon Mattress, a family-run business of over 50 years.

Our expansion of products to meet local needs also includes upholstered furniture, national brands like Sealy and locally manufactured Mastercraft.

We know that much of our success is due to our willingness to take the time to give credible advice on our customers’ overall decorating concepts as well as finishing and refinishing needs. We value our customer's loyalty and friendship, and try at every opportunity to exceed their expectations.

Word of mouth referrals have been our best advertisement for value, honesty, integrity and service. These are the concepts Ruth Murphy had in mind when she founded Murphy’s Furniture.

With three decades of furniture sales and service experience under our belt, we thank our entire customer family, for continuing to make us your family’s furniture store for over 35 years.