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Alcove Units in Wimbledon Park
Thinking about alcove units in Wimbledon Park? It starts with a design visit to measure and talk through ideas, then a written quote.
- Room to work in an alcove
- Worn or badly fitted alcove units
- Furniture that doesn’t fit the alcove
Alcove units for your home in Wimbledon Park
What it costs
Each piece is designed for one room, so each price is too. What affects it comes down to:
- The width and height of the space
- Parking and unloading on your street
- Spray painting or hand painting
- How easy it is to get the furniture into the room
Rooms that are not square take more work: walls that lean, floors that slope and sloping ceilings all mean more scribing and cutting. That is reflected in the quote, written once we have measured up.
What we need to know
These details help when you get in touch:
- What you’d like to store or use the space for
- Whether it is a house or a flat, and if there are stairs or a lift
- Radiators, sockets, pipes or meters on or near the wall
- Rough sizes, even if they’re only to the nearest few centimetres
For a quote for alcove units in Wimbledon Park, drop us a line using the contact form. Let us know which room it is and roughly what you have in mind. Next comes a design visit, followed by a written quote.
How we make alcove units for Wimbledon Park
A classic layout is a low cupboard with open shelves above. The cupboards take the things you’d rather not see, while the shelves hold books and the things you want on show. The cupboard top gives you a ledge for a lamp, a speaker or a plant. We set the heights to suit the room and what you will store. We make alcove units from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, spray-painted or hand-painted, and people most often get in touch about a place for a small desk and space for a growing book collection.
Whether your home in Wimbledon Park is a period house, an interwar semi, a post-war flat or a newer build, alcove units start with the room you actually have. Older rooms bring uneven walls and picture rails, while newer ones bring plasterboard walls and boxed-in pipes. We measure for whichever you have, and the pieces are made to suit.
Where other trades are needed, for instance an electrician to move a socket, we point that out, so it can be arranged before fitting day. The quote itself covers our work, from the design to the materials and finish.
- Location
- Wimbledon Park (SW19, SW18)
- Borough
- Merton
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Making
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Made from
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- When we fit
- Weekdays (Saturdays if arranged)
- Contact
- Our contact form
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
Common questions about alcove units
Does a conservation area in or near Wimbledon Park affect fitted furniture?
Not normally. Conservation area controls are largely about how buildings look from outside, so fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission. If your home is listed, works inside that affect its character can need listed building consent, so check with the council first. If you are unsure, the council can confirm.
Is Wimbledon Park in the area you cover for alcove units?
Yes. We cover all of Merton and the rest of London, and Wimbledon Park is part of that. The first step is a design visit, where we measure and go through the design, and then we send a quote.
Do alcove units affect the chimney’s ventilation?
We plan alcove units so any chimney vent stays clear. A capped or blocked chimney should still be ventilated to help stop damp.
Can you add sockets inside the units?
That’s a job for your electrician. It is best done before the units go in, and we can tell you where the units will sit so the sockets end up in the right place. The units are made with cut-outs and cable gaps to suit.
Can I send pictures before the visit?
Yes. They give us a feel for the space before we visit, along with rough measurements. Show anything the furniture has to work around, like radiators or sockets.
Can you fit a desk into an alcove?
Yes. Many people use one alcove for a desk and the other for cupboards, or matching desks in both. The desk is planned around the way you work.
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What happens on fitting day
Every fitting follows the same order: floors are protected, the sections come in, everything is levelled, scribed to the walls, fixed and finished. At the end, we tidy up and go over the work with you. The time the fitting takes depends on the size and number of units, and your quote sets out the fitting days. We measure the hall, stairs, doors and any lift not just the room, so the furniture comes in sections sized for the route. We cover floors and doorways on the way in.
- You contact us with some details about the chimney breast and alcoves.
- We visit to measure the alcoves top, middle and bottom, and check the floor for level, then go through the design with you.
- We send the design, materials and finish in a quote in writing.
- The units are built in our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, leaving a scribing allowance where they meet the walls.
- At fitting, we set each unit level on a plinth or feet and trim that edge to follow the wall. Spray-painted units arrive finished; hand-painted ones are painted once fitted.
Before fitting day
- Keep pets in another room while we work
- If you live in a block, book the lift and tell the building manager
- Let us know about any meters, fuse boards or boilers in the area
Getting a quote
Pictures help us understand the room before we visit. Pictures of the whole wall, the corners and the ceiling line give us a good feel for the space, along with rough sizes. To share them, message us from the contact page, and we will arrange a design visit.
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The problems alcove units solve
Others want a proper home for books, records or a TV. We can plan an alcove unit around exactly what you have, with shelf heights and depths to suit.
If you recognise any of these, it’s worth talking to us:
- Storage that suits a period room
- Alcoves that are wasted space
- Furniture that does not fit the alcove
- Space for a growing book collection
Close to King George's Park? A room that looks out on trees deserves a design that leaves the window alone.
Before you hire any carpenter
- Which parts of the job need an electrician or a plumber
- Which materials they’ll use, named in the quote
- How they handle walls that are not straight
- Real projects you can actually look at
Flat-pack or bespoke?
Standard units come in set widths and heights, so there’s often a strip of wasted space at the side or above. Fitted furniture is made to the room’s measurements, so it can run to the ceiling and fill the width.
A confident DIYer can manage simple shelves or a standard wardrobe in a square room. Sloping ceilings, uneven floors and lath-and-plaster walls make it harder.
Flats, leases and landlords
Conversions and newer flats often have stud walls rather than solid brick. We choose fixings to suit the wall, which we check at the design visit.
For a rented home, access for the design visit and fitting day has to be agreed with the tenants, at times that suit them. An agent can arrange access for you.
Living-room storage in Wimbledon Park
The biggest shares of homes in the area around Wimbledon Park were built before 1919 (about 42%) and between 1945 and 1972 (about 19%), going by the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax figures. It is a good starting point, though every room is still measured, as two homes of the same age rarely match. Near the centre of Wimbledon Park, Historic England’s list includes The Old Rectory House (Grade II*), about 0.5 miles south, and Parish Church of St Mary (Grade II*), about 0.5 miles south. If you live in a listed building, fixing into or taking out original features such as panelling may need listed building consent. It’s worth speaking to the council’s conservation officer before the design is final. Terraced houses are home to about 33% of households in the neighbourhood around Wimbledon Park, going by Census 2021 figures from the ONS. Many London terraces have a chimney breast and alcoves in the main rooms, and alcove units are made to those widths.
For a family home near Albemarle Primary School, shelving with deep cupboards below keeps books, games and school things in one place. If you live in a period home close to Church of St Luke, picture rails and cornices give alcove units a line to finish at.
Wimbledon Park is part of the London Borough of Merton, about 1 mile south of Wimbledon. Homes in Wimbledon Park are part of the area we cover for alcove units. In Merton, Wimbledon Park is one of the places we cover.
Every home in SW19 and SW18 is covered for alcove units, from the main roads to the quieter streets. Streets in the area include Dora Road, Church Road and Arthur Road, and homes on each of them are within our area for alcove units. The A218 runs close to Wimbledon Park, so if your home is on a main road, mention it when you contact us. Neighbouring places we cover for alcove units include Wimbledon (1 mile south), Crooked Billet (1 mile south-west), Copse Hill (2 miles south-west), Merton Park (2 miles south) and Wimbledon Chase (2 miles south). Elsewhere in Merton, we also cover Colliers Wood (2 miles south-east), Morden (3 miles south), Eastfields (3 miles south-east), Merton Abbey (2 miles south-east), Bushey Mead (2 miles south) and Mitcham (3 miles south-east).
Near you in Wimbledon Park
Our area takes in the homes around Ricards Lodge High School, Leather Bottle pub and Linden Lodge School. For rail, the closest station is Earlsfield station, about 1 mile north-east. Well-known places in the area include Southside Wandsworth (1.4 miles north-east) and Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum (a few minutes’ walk west). Not far away are Wandle Meadow Nature Park and Henman Hill.