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Hammersmith and Fulham · London
Alcove Units in Hurlingham
Alcove units for your home in Hurlingham: cupboards and shelves built into the alcoves beside a chimney breast. Each piece is designed at a visit to your home, made in our workshop and fitted by us.
- Standard units leaving gaps at the sides
- A place for a small desk
- Empty alcoves either side of the chimney breast
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About our alcove units in Hurlingham
We work across London, including Hurlingham. It starts with a design visit, where we measure the alcoves and discuss the design. After that we send a written quote; the units are then built in our workshop and fitted in your home. If your home has standard units leaving gaps at the sides and units that sit well with original features, that is what alcove units are for, made from moisture-resistant MDF and strong birch plywood, with a painted finish.
In a house from the Victorian or Edwardian years, the chimney breast tends to survive even when the fireplace itself has been blocked up. That matters around Hurlingham, as a large share of the homes there were built before 1919. Alcove units built into the recesses either side are scribed to the plaster and cut around the skirting.
Materials are named in the quote: moisture-resistant MDF, birch plywood or both, depending on the design. The finish is stated too, whether that is spray painting or hand painting.
- Place
- Hurlingham (SW6, SW18, SW15)
- Area
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Prices
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- We visit, measure, then quote
- Made
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Boards and paint
- MDF and birch plywood, painted
- Working days
- Weekdays; Saturdays on request
- Get in touch
- Our contact form
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Flats, conversions and leaseholders
Many London terraces have been converted into flats, and that often means a shared hallway and a tight turn on the stairs. Each section is sized with that in mind.
For flats on red routes or busy main roads, getting the furniture from the van to the door needs planning. TfL runs the red routes, and the stopping rules are strict, so tell us about it during the design visit.
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Bespoke or off-the-shelf?
Bespoke furniture isn’t instant: there is a design visit, a quote and making time in the workshop. What you get is a unit planned for your alcove, rather than the nearest standard size. Ready-made pieces are proportioned for newer homes and can look lost in an older one, while fitted furniture can follow the room’s own lines.
Awkward rooms take more time: uneven walls, sloping floors and angled ceilings all add scribing and cutting on site. The quote allows for it.
What you get with us
- Made for your room, not a standard size
- Made in our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Work across the whole of London
- A design visit, then a written quote
Is it time for alcove units?
A bedroom’s alcoves are often the best place for a wardrobe. Built into the alcove, a cupboard holds clothes without taking over the room, which matters in a smaller room.
Most of the enquiries we get are about needs like these:
- Space for a growing book collection
- Clutter with nowhere to go
- A desk that tucks into an alcove
- Storage that suits a period room
Fulham Palace, about 0.7 miles west, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. If your own home is a period one, picture rails and cornices give alcove units a line to finish at.
Before you choose who makes it
- Real projects you can actually look at
- Do they scribe the furniture to the walls?
- How doors and drawers are fitted
- Are the boards named, like MDF or plywood?
What alcove units cannot fix
We design, make and fit the furniture. In practice, that means:
- Curing damp, which needs the right specialist
- Electrical work, like new sockets or switches, which is for your electrician
- Taking out a chimney breast or opening up a fireplace
Not sure whether your space suits alcove units? You can use our contact form and we’ll tell you before you arrange a visit. How a job runs, step by step.
Materials and parts
- Birch plywood
- Spray-painted finish
- Panelled or flat doors
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Scribed side panels
- Adjustable shelves
- Hand-painted finish
Fitting day, step by step
With the carcasses fixed and level, we hang any doors and fit any drawers or lids. Each one is adjusted until the gaps are even and it closes cleanly, then checked again. How long the fitting takes depends on how many alcoves there are and how tall the units go, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. Terraced streets in London are often lined with parked cars, so details of permits, bays and any loading restrictions help. Unloading is kept short, with sections taken straight inside. Saturday fitting can be arranged.
- You get in touch and let us know about the room and the alcoves, and a rough sketch helps if you have one.
- We visit to measure the alcoves and discuss the design, checking how far the walls are out of square.
- We send a written quote for the units, so you can look it over in your own time.
- We make the cupboards and shelves in our workshop, using moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- The units are fitted in your home and scribed to follow the walls.
Getting ready for fitting day
- Take anything hanging off the wall we’re fitting to
- Move furniture and belongings away from the wall
- Let us know about any meters, fuse boards or boilers in the area
Starting with a design visit
A quote begins with some details from you: which room it is, rough sizes and a couple of pictures if you can take them. To send them, tell us about the room on our contact form. We will then arrange a design visit and follow it with a quote in writing.
Advice
Living-room storage in Hurlingham
About 55% of the homes in the streets around Hurlingham went up before 1919, and about 26% since 2000, in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. Knowing roughly when a home was built helps, because walls and fixings change from one era to the next. Hurlingham is partly covered by a conservation area, going by Historic England’s data. The controls in a conservation area are mostly about the outside of buildings, so furniture fitted inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission. If you want to be certain, ask the council’s planning team. Parking on many inner London streets is controlled, with zones run by each borough. In Hurlingham, a van will normally need a visitor permit, a paid bay or a suspended bay, and the council arranges suspensions, often with notice. We ask about parking at the measuring visit, so the van can be planned for.
Near listed buildings like Hurlingham House, less than half a mile south of the centre of Hurlingham, older homes may keep original joinery that alcove units can be designed around. For a listed home, fixing into original features may need listed building consent. If you live near Parsons Green (park), shelving that stops short of the window keeps the view of the green.
Hurlingham is about 1 mile north-west of Fulham, part of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. We cover Hurlingham as part of our work across Hammersmith and Fulham. Across Hammersmith and Fulham, we cover Hurlingham, along with the rest of the borough.
Postcode districts we cover here for alcove units: SW6, SW18 and SW15. Our area takes in homes on streets like Buer Road, Ewald Road and Dolby Road, along with the roads around them, whether you want alcove units or another piece made for the room. Hurlingham sits close to the A304. If your home is on one of them, tell us at the design visit, as some main roads have strict stopping rules. Neighbouring places we cover for alcove units include Parsons Green (1 mile north), Walham Green (1 mile north-east), Chelsea Harbour (1 mile east), Sands End (1 mile east) and West Brompton (1 mile north). Other parts of Hammersmith and Fulham we cover include Hammersmith (2 miles north-west), Shepherd's Bush (2 miles north), Brackenbury Village (2 miles north-west), White City (3 miles north), Brook Green (2 miles north-west) and College Park (4 miles north). Hurlingham is one of the larger places we cover in Hammersmith and Fulham.
Around Hurlingham
Our area takes in the homes around Queensmill School, Lady Margaret School and Duke of Cumberland pub and the streets around them. The closest station to Hurlingham is Imperial Wharf station, about 0.8 miles east of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include Chelsea Stadium Tour And Museum (0.8 miles north-east) and Western Hospital (1 mile north).
Questions we are often asked
Do you make alcove units for homes in Hurlingham?
Yes. We cover all of Hammersmith and Fulham and the rest of London, and Hurlingham is part of that. We start with a design visit to measure the room and talk through what you need, and then we send a quote.
My home in Hurlingham is a flat. How do you get the furniture in?
We measure the route in as well as the room: the stairs, landings, lift and doors. The furniture is made in sections that fit the stairs and lift, and put together in the room. It helps to check any building rules and your lease before fitting day.
Should both alcoves have the same units?
It is up to you. Matching units give a balanced, formal look around the chimney breast, but many people put a desk or a TV in one alcove and cupboards in the other. We can keep the details the same so they still look like a pair.
Can alcove units be fitted to uneven walls?
Yes. Each alcove is measured at the measuring visit, make the units in our workshop and trim the edges on site to meet the wall, which closes the gaps you’d see with standard furniture.
Who moves the sockets behind the alcove units?
That is a job for your electrician. Ideally it is done before fitting so the sockets line up with the design. The units are made with cut-outs and cable gaps to suit.
Do I need to be in when you fit?
We need access, so someone has to let us in. After that, you do not need to stay in the room.