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Camden · London
Fitted wardrobes in South Hampstead, Camden
Fitted wardrobes in South Hampstead: floor-to-ceiling wardrobes built to the shape of your bedroom. Every piece is built in our workshop and fitted in your home, with a spray or hand-painted finish.
- Wasted space beside the chimney breast
- A bedroom that never feels tidy
- Storage boxes stacked under the bed
Ask about fitted wardrobes in South Hampstead
Bespoke or off-the-shelf?
With off-the-shelf wardrobes, the colour choice is the maker’s. We paint fitted wardrobes in the colour you choose, sprayed in the workshop or painted by hand. Bespoke work does take longer than buying from a shop, since there’s a design visit, a quote and workshop time first. Off-the-shelf furniture is made for flat walls and level floors, which older houses rarely have, so you end up with gaps, wobbles and units that don’t meet the skirting. Fitted furniture is scribed to the wall instead.
Because every job is different, the cost is set out in a written quote after the visit. Size, the number of doors and drawers and the internal fittings make the biggest difference to the price.
What you get with us
- We visit, measure and go through the design before we quote
- 300+ projects completed
- Every London borough and the City of London covered
- Scribed to uneven walls
Take a look at bespoke vs off-the-shelf and what a quote should include.
Fitted wardrobes in South Hampstead: what you get
What goes inside is where a fitted wardrobe earns its place. Long hanging, double hanging, shelves and drawers are arranged around what you own, so nothing is squashed and no height is wasted. It is useful to think about what you wear most before we meet. We make fitted wardrobes from moisture-resistant MDF and strong birch plywood, with a painted finish, and people most often get in touch about gaps above and around standalone wardrobes and bedroom alcoves that could hold clothes.
Around South Hampstead, a large share of homes date from before 1919, and bedrooms in houses of that age often have a chimney breast with an alcove either side. Fitted furniture can fill the alcoves, wrap round the chimney breast or run across a whole wall. Because older floors slope and walls bow, everything is scribed and levelled on site.
The quote comes in writing, so there is time to read it properly. It records the design, the materials and the finish we discussed.
- Location
- South Hampstead (NW3, NW8, NW6)
- Area
- Camden
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- We visit, measure, then quote
- Made
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Made from
- MDF and birch plywood, painted
- Fitting days
- Weekdays, and Saturdays by prior arrangement
- Get in touch
- Our contact form
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Nearby places to South Hampstead
What else we make in South Hampstead
Fitted wardrobes for homes in South Hampstead
About 47% of the homes in the neighbourhood around South Hampstead went up before 1919, and about 23% between 1945 and 1972, on the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures for 2025. That matters for fitted wardrobes, as the build era decides whether a wall is solid brick, lath and plaster, block or plasterboard. The National Heritage List has 125 entries within half a mile of the centre of South Hampstead. Older homes nearby may have original joinery, shutters or panelling worth keeping, and fitted wardrobes can be designed to work around them. The boroughs run controlled parking zones across much of inner London. For fitting in South Hampstead, a van typically needs a visitor permit, a paid bay or a bay suspension, which the council arranges, often with notice. It helps to let us know about parking at the measuring visit.
The wider area includes historic houses like Winfield House, about 0.9 miles south-east. For a period home anywhere nearby, tall ceilings give fitted wardrobes room to reach the cornice. Near listed buildings like Belsize Fire Station, less than half a mile north-east of the centre of South Hampstead, older homes may keep original joinery that fitted wardrobes can be designed around. If your own home is listed, check with the council before fixing into original features.
South Hampstead is within the London Borough of Camden, about 3 miles south-east of St Pancras. Whether your home in South Hampstead is a terraced house, a flat or a newer build, the furniture is designed around the room as we find it. Across Camden, we cover South Hampstead and the places around it.
Postcode districts we cover here for fitted wardrobes: NW3, NW8 and NW6. Whether you live on a street like Avenue Road, Acacia Road and Harben Road or on one nearby, we can arrange a design visit for fitted wardrobes. We also cover Swiss Cottage (1 mile north), St John's Wood (1 mile south), Haverstock (1 mile east), Belsize Park (1 mile east) and Primrose Hill (1 mile east). Other parts of Camden we cover include St Pancras (3 miles south-east), West End (3 miles south-east), St Giles (3 miles south-east), Seven Dials (3 miles south-east), Holborn (3 miles south-east) and Bloomsbury (2 miles south-east).
Near you in South Hampstead
In South Hampstead, that includes homes near Cafe Med pub, Holy Trinity CofE Primary School and Cecil Sharp House and the streets around them. There’s a railway station in South Hampstead itself: South Hampstead station. Other landmarks nearby include Isokon Gallery (0.8 miles north-east) and Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth (0.7 miles south). Green spaces nearby include Adelaide Nature Reserve.
What affects the cost of fitted wardrobes
The price reflects the time and materials the job needs. The main factors are:
- Hanging rails, shelves, drawers and other fittings inside
- How square the room is
- Spray painting or hand painting
- Doors and drawers, and how many
Every room is priced on its own, because the size, the layout and the finish all vary. A spray finish and a hand-painted finish involve different work, and that shows in the price. The figure comes in your written quote after the design visit.
Helping us understand the room
When you contact us, these help most:
- Pictures of styles you like, if you have any
- What you’d like to store or use the space for
- Where you live, with the postcode
- Approximate measurements of the space
Every quote follows a design visit. At the visit, we measure, look at the walls and floors and go through the design with you, then send a written quote. The price comes in a written quote, worked out from the measurements and the design you choose. To book a design visit, message us from the contact page.
Is it time for fitted wardrobes?
Sharing a bedroom means sharing the wardrobe. A fitted wardrobe can be planned with separate sections, each with its own mix of hanging, shelves and drawers.
Requests we hear often include:
- A tight bedroom where doors get in the way
- Storage boxes stacked under the bed
- Condensation behind a wardrobe on an outside wall
- Standard wardrobes that don’t fill the wall
For an older house near Church of All Souls, a bedroom chimney breast and its alcoves often shape where fitted wardrobes go.
Choosing a carpenter
- Whether the finish is set out in the quote
- How doors and drawers are fitted
- Whether the quote says what the furniture is made from
- Whether the route into your home has been checked
Questions from South Hampstead
Do I need permission for fitted furniture in a conservation area?
Typically not: conservation area rules mainly cover the outside of buildings, and fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission. Listed buildings are different, as works inside that affect their character can require listed building consent from the council. If you’re unsure, the council can confirm.
How do you fit fitted wardrobes in a flat in South Hampstead?
At the design visit, we measure the way in not just the room. The furniture is made in sections that fit the stairs and lift, and put together in the room. It’s useful to check any building rules and your lease before fitting day.
Do I choose the paint colour?
You do. The paint colour is agreed with you.
How long will the fitting take?
The fitting depends on the length of the run, the doors and what goes inside, and the fitting days are set out in your quote. The making happens in our workshop, so the time in your home is mostly fitting and finishing.
Will a sloping floor cause problems for fitted wardrobes?
We allow for it from the start. The wardrobe is set level with a plinth or adjustable feet and scribed to the walls, so the doors line up properly.
Which is better for fitted wardrobes, hinged or sliding doors?
Both work well, depending on the space. Hinged doors open a whole section at once but need room in front to swing. We talk through both at the measuring visit.
Before and after fitting day
Fresh paintwork takes a while to cure fully, so treat it gently at first. After that, a few simple habits help:
- Have sockets moved before the wardrobes go in
- Count how much long hanging and short hanging you need
- Decide what goes on shelves and what goes in drawers
- Let us know about any damp you’ve seen on bedroom walls
Doors can settle a little once the wardrobes are filled. Hinges can usually be adjusted to line the doors up again.
Do not overload a single rail or shelf. Shelves and rails are sized for everyday loads.
How fitting day works
You won’t need to do much on the day. Someone needs to let us in, and it helps to have the room cleared beforehand, as we will have talked about at the design visit. After that, it’s over to us: the floors are covered, the sections come in and the fitting begins. How long the fitting takes depends on how many wardrobes there are and how the room is shaped, and the fitting days are set out in your quote. On fitting day, edges are trimmed on site to follow the walls, so we ask for a clear space to work near the room. We keep dust down and tidy as we go. Where the finish is hand-painted, it can be done after the pieces are in.
- You get in touch about fitted wardrobes for your bedroom, with a rough idea of what you need to hang and fold.
- We visit to measure up and plan the doors, rails, shelves and drawers with you. Hinged or sliding doors are part of that conversation.
- You receive a quote setting out the design and the paint finish, ready for you to read through.
- We build the wardrobes in our workshop, in sections sized to get into your home.
- We fit them in your home, scribe them to the walls and hang the doors. The rails, shelves and drawers go in last.
How to prepare
- Let us know where the boiler and meters are
- Clear the area where the furniture is going
- Book any lift and let the concierge or building manager know
Getting a quote
The design visit is where every quote starts. We measure the room properly, check how the walls and floors run and talk through the design with you. Afterwards, we send a written quote for you to look over. To arrange the visit, tell us about the room on our contact form.