The Daily Mail's coverage of Jeremy Barker's "broke fireman to multi-millionaire" arc reached an audience most US-trade press doesn't touch. The framing was tabloid-direct in the best way: pick a transferable lesson and lead with it, then back it with the founder's actual sequence.
What the Daily Mail piece compresses is that Murphy Door wasn't sequential to the real-estate moves — they ran together. Jeremy was running fire shifts, building hidden doors in a garage, and structuring property deals in the same week, starting around 2012 in West Haven, Utah. The flush-mount door and gun cabinet categories that anchor our catalog today started as side projects funded by overtime.
For UK readers who first encountered the company through this piece: hidden-door storage as a category has been catching on across Europe, and our press archive shows where the design press is taking the conversation next.
