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Alcove Units in Queen's Park
In Queen's Park, we design alcove units around the room you actually have. Your alcove unit is designed at a visit to your home and made in our workshop.
- Bare alcoves beside the fireplace
- Furniture that doesn’t fit the alcove
- Everyday clutter left on show
Alcove units for your home in Queen's Park
How we make alcove units for Queen's Park
A capped or blocked chimney should still be ventilated to help keep damp out of the breast. We keep any vent clear when we design alcove units, rather than boxing it in. Any damp in the alcoves should be dealt with by the right trade before the units go in. If your home has space for a growing book collection and storage that suits a period room, alcove units made from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, finished by spray or by hand can solve it.
With a large share of homes around Queen's Park built before 1919, the living room is often two rooms knocked through, with a chimney breast in each half. One pair of alcoves might take shelves and the other cupboards, a TV or a desk. Older internal walls can be lath and plaster rather than brick, which changes how shelving is fixed.
Once you have read the quote and decided to go ahead, the furniture is made in our workshop. It describes the design, the materials and the finish agreed at the visit, so every detail can be checked first.
- Where
- Queen's Park (NW6, W9, W10)
- Area
- Brent
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- We visit, measure, then quote
- Making
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Materials and finish
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Working days
- Monday to Friday; Saturdays by arrangement
- Get in touch
- Send us a message
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
What alcove units cannot fix
Some parts of a job need another trade, from an electrician to a plumber or a Gas Safe engineer. Here’s what to know:
- Moving sockets or switches, which needs an electrician
- Decorating the rest of the room
- Treating damp in the chimney breast or walls
Not sure whether your space suits alcove units? You can get in touch through our contact form and we will tell you. How it works.
What goes into it
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Adjustable shelves
- Panelled or flat doors
- Spray-painted finish
- Scribed side panels
- Hand-painted finish
- Birch plywood
Questions we’re often asked
I live in a flat in Queen's Park. How will the furniture get up the stairs?
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.
I live near Queens Park (London) station. Is that in your area?
Yes. We cover all of Brent and the rest of London. You can tell us about the room on our contact form to arrange a design visit, and let us know about parking and access at the same time.
Can I send pictures ahead of the visit?
Yes, they help. Photos of the whole wall or room, including the floor and ceiling, give us a good idea of the space. To send them, tell us about the room on our contact form.
Can you come on a Saturday?
Yes, Saturdays are possible by prior arrangement. Just mention it when you get in touch.
How do I get started?
It’s easiest to send us a few details through our contact form and tell us about the room. After that, we arrange a design visit and follow it with a quote in writing.
Does fitted furniture need planning permission?
Not normally. Conservation areas mostly control changes to the outside, and fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission. Listed buildings are different: check with the council’s conservation officer first.
From workshop to your room
Getting everything level comes first. Floors are often out of level, so adjustable feet or a plinth take up the difference, and that keeps the doors and shelves true. Only then is it fixed to the wall, with fixings chosen to suit brick, lath and plaster or plasterboard. If your hall still has its original tiles or boards, they’re covered before any carrying starts. Fixings into older walls are made carefully, as lath and plaster can crack if treated roughly. Any decorating around the new pieces is for your decorator.
- You get in touch and let us know about the room and the alcoves.
- We visit to measure the alcoves and discuss the design, checking how far the walls are out of square.
- You receive a quote in writing setting out the units, materials and finish, so you can look it over in your own time.
- Each unit is built in our workshop to the measurements we took, using moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- We install the units, set them level and scribe them to the alcoves, so they sit tight to the chimney breast.
Before we arrive
- Let us know where the boiler and meters are
- Tell us about parking near your home
- Get any new sockets or wiring done by your electrician before fitting day
Arranging a design visit
Every piece is quoted for your room after the design visit. Each room is different, so we quote after seeing it. To arrange a visit, tell us about the room on our contact form.
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What else we make in Queen's Park
Boards, parts and paint
Hand-painted finish
Hand painting lets the colour be judged in the room itself as it goes on. Scribed edges and joins are painted along with the rest.
Birch plywood
Birch plywood helps shelves stay straight under books over a wider alcove. Thickness is chosen to suit the span and the weight.
What affects the price in Queen's Park
The price for your room depends on:
- Parking and unloading on your street
- Stairs, lifts and the route to the room
- The number of doors and drawers
- How big the furniture is
In London, parking can affect the price. The boroughs run controlled parking zones across much of the city, so we may need a visitor permit, a paid bay or a suspended bay. It helps to talk about parking at the design visit, so we can plan for it.
What we need to know
When you contact us, these help most:
- The type of home and how the room is reached
- Pictures of styles you like, if you have any
- Anything in the way, like radiators, sockets, switches, a boiler or meters
- Your postcode and the borough
Rough measurements are fine at the start. Everything is measured properly when we visit, including how level the floor and ceiling are. To get started, tell us about the room on our contact form with a few details about the room. You receive a written quote after the visit.
Could you do it yourself?
Flat-pack and off-the-shelf furniture has its place. If the walls are straight and the space suits standard sizes, it often does the job.
Bespoke work comes into its own in rooms that aren’t square. In period homes, walls lean, floors slope and the alcoves on each side are often different widths, which leaves standard units with gaps at the sides and top.
Built-in living-room furniture in Queen's Park
The biggest shares of homes in the neighbourhood around Queen's Park were built before 1919 (about 63%) and between 1973 and 1999 (about 13%), going by the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax figures. For carpentry, the era of a house is a useful clue to how square its rooms are and what its walls are made of. Entries on the National Heritage List near the centre of Queen's Park include Church of St Augustine (Grade I), about 0.5 miles east, and Alexandra Terrace (Grade II), less than half a mile east. Where a home is listed, listed building consent can be needed for inside works that affect its character, like fixing into original panelling. An early word with the council’s conservation officer is the best first step. Strict stopping rules apply on red routes, which TfL runs. If your home is on or just off a main road, it’s useful to mention it. It lets us plan the stop before fitting day.
If your home is one of the older houses near West Kilburn Baptist Church, picture rails and cornices give alcove units a line to finish at. Close to Queen’s Park? Alcove units can be planned to frame a window with a view rather than block it. If you live in a flat close to Queens Park (London) station, it is useful to book the lift and tell the concierge before fitting day.
Queen's Park is within the London Borough of Brent, about 1 mile north of Kilburn. We design and make alcove units for homes in Queen's Park and across Brent. Queen's Park is one of 29 places on our list for Brent.
In NW6, W9 and W10, the process is the same as anywhere else in London. We cover homes on streets like Kempe Road, Peach Road and Parry Road, along with the roads around them, whether you want alcove units or another piece made for the room. Close by, we also work in Kilburn (1 mile north), Kensal Rise (1 mile west), Kensal Town (1 mile south-west), Brondesbury (1 mile north) and Kensal Green (1 mile west). Elsewhere in Brent, we also cover Neasden (2 miles north-west), Harlesden (2 miles west), Wembley (4 miles north-west), Kenton (6 miles north-west), Church End (2 miles west) and Willesden (2 miles north-west). Queen's Park is among the bigger places we cover in Brent.
Around Queen's Park
The streets we cover here include those near The Brondesbury Arms, St Augustine's Church of England High School and Maida Vale School and the streets around them. There’s a railway station in Queen's Park itself: Queens Park (London) station. Well-known places in the area include Paddington General Hospital (0.8 miles south) and O2 Centre (1.3 miles north-east). Green spaces nearby include Greville Place nature reserve.