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Bexley · London
Blackfen TV and Media Units
Thinking about TV and media units in Blackfen? It starts with a design visit to measure and talk through ideas, then a written quote, before anything is made.
- Games, controllers and remotes everywhere
- A tangle of wires behind the TV
- Equipment with nowhere proper to go
TV and media units in Blackfen
TV and media units in Blackfen
TV units are made from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood. You choose a spray-painted or hand-painted finish, in a colour agreed with you. We work across London, including Blackfen, after a design visit and a quote in writing. If you are living with nowhere good for speakers and boxes and consoles on the floor, TV and media units made from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, finished by spray or by hand can solve it.
Around Blackfen, interwar houses or semi-detached and detached homes make up a good part of the housing. In a typical 1930s house, the front room has a bay at one end and a chimney breast with an alcove to either side, and that layout shapes where TV and media units work best. Walls are often truer than in older houses, but they’re still measured carefully and scribed where they wander.
Materials are named in the quote: moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, each used where it suits the job. It also says how the furniture will be finished: spray painted or hand painted.
- Location
- Blackfen (DA15, DA16, SE9)
- Area
- Bexley
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- First step
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Made
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Boards and paint
- MDF and birch plywood, painted
- When we fit
- Weekdays (Saturdays if arranged)
- Contact
- Our contact form
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
Do you need TV and media units in Blackfen?
Games, controllers and remotes need a home. Drawers and cupboards hold them out of sight.
TV and media units can help with:
- Bought furniture that doesn’t suit the room
- A cabinet that traps heat
- A big screen that dominates the wall
- Clutter around the TV
Living in a block of flats near Falconwood station? Then each piece is planned so it can be carried up and joined together in the room.
What to check before you book
- How they’ll get the furniture into the room
- Are the boards named, like MDF or plywood?
- Can you see real work of theirs?
- Will the doors close with even gaps?
How fitting day works
If anything comes up on the day, just ask. The design, materials and finish were settled before anything was made, so fitting day is about putting it in place carefully. The time the fitting takes depends on the size of the unit and the cable routes planned into it, and the fitting days are set out in your quote. Fitting day means carrying in the sections, joining them and fitting them to the walls. Hand-painted furniture can be finished on site; spray-painted pieces arrive finished from the workshop. Saturday fitting is possible by arrangement.
- It starts with a short note from you about the TV wall.
- We visit to plan the unit and check the way in.
- A quote in writing follows, setting out the design, materials and finish.
- In our workshop we make the unit in sections from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- We bring the sections in, join them on the wall and scribe them to fit.
How to prepare
- Clear the walls of pictures and shelves
- Keep pets out of the room and the hallway
- Check the building’s rules for trades and lift bookings
Getting a quote
To make a start, fill in our short enquiry form and tell us a little about the room. From there, we arrange a design visit to measure up and talk through your ideas, and a written quote follows.
Related advice
Built-in living-room furniture in Blackfen
About 70% of the homes in the area around Blackfen went up between 1919 and 1939, and about 15% between 1945 and 1972, in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. That matters for TV and media units, as the build era decides whether a wall is solid brick, lath and plaster, block or plasterboard. Within a mile of the centre of Blackfen, 4 conservation areas are recorded by Historic England. Historic England says England has around 10,000, and the controls mainly cover the outside of buildings, so fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission. About 37% of households in the streets around Blackfen live in terraced houses, according to Census 2021. Many London terraces have a chimney breast and alcoves in the main rooms, which suit TV and media units built to their exact widths.
The wider area includes historic houses such as Danson House, about 1.2 miles east. For a period home anywhere nearby, picture rails and cornices give TV and media units a line to finish at. If you live near Shoulder of Mutton Green, a room that looks out on trees deserves a design that leaves the window alone.
Blackfen is part of the London Borough of Bexley, about 1 mile south of Sidcup. We design and make TV and media units for homes in Blackfen and across Bexley. Blackfen is one of 27 places on our list for Bexley.
Postcode districts we cover here for TV and media units: DA15, DA16 and SE9. If your home is on a street like Days Lane, Gordon Road and Kent Avenue, or close by, we can visit to measure up for TV and media units. Nearby, we also make TV and media units in Falconwood (1 mile north), Avery Hill (1 mile west), East Wickham (1 mile north), New Eltham (1 mile south-west) and Longlands (1 mile south). Elsewhere in Bexley, we also cover Erith (4 miles north-east), Bexley (2 miles east), Belvedere (4 miles north-east), Northumberland Heath (4 miles north-east), Lessness Heath (4 miles north-east) and Bexleyheath (2 miles east).
Near you in Blackfen
Our area takes in the homes around Harris Academy Falconwood and The George Staples pub and the streets around them. The nearest railway station is Falconwood station, roughly 0.8 miles north-west of the centre. A little further out are Metropolitan Police Museum (1.3 miles south) and Eltham Community Hospital (1.7 miles west).
What affects the cost of TV and media units
The price for your room depends on:
- Walls and floors that are out of level or out of square
- How big the furniture is
- How many doors and drawers there are
- How easy it is to get the furniture into the room
Prices are quoted for your room, once we’ve measured and talked through the design. The price depends mainly on the size of the piece, how many doors and drawers it has and what goes inside.
Getting in touch
A little information at the start saves time later. Where you can, include:
- Anything fixed to the wall that the furniture needs to work around
- Your postcode and the borough
- The type of home and how the room is reached
- Pictures showing the full wall, from floor to ceiling
Pictures help us understand the room before we visit. A few pictures showing the walls, the corners and where the ceiling meets them tell us a lot about the space, especially with rough measurements. To share them, drop us a line using the contact form, and we’ll suggest a time for a design visit.
What TV and media units can’t fix
It helps to know what’s outside our work before you plan:
- Removing a chimney breast or any structural work
- New sockets behind the TV, which need an electrician
- Setting up and tuning the TV, boxes and speakers
Not sure whether your space suits TV and media units? You can use our contact form and we will tell you before you arrange a visit. How it works.
What goes into it
- Birch plywood
- Ventilated cabinets
- Cable routes
- Hand-painted finish
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Spray-painted finish
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Questions from Blackfen
Can parking be tricky on fitting day in Blackfen?
It can be, depending on whether your street is in a controlled parking zone. A van may need a visitor permit, a pay-and-display bay or a suspended bay, which the council arranges, often with notice. It is useful to tell us about parking during the design visit, and we’ll plan around it.
Can you make TV and media units for a home in Blackfen?
Yes. Blackfen is one of the places we work, along with the rest of Bexley and London. To get started, you can send us a few details through our contact form with a few details.
Can the TV be wall-mounted with a unit around it?
If the TV is wall-mounted, we design the unit around the bracket position, with a route for the cables. The bracket needs a sound wall so we check the wall at the measuring visit.
Do TV units need ventilation?
We plan ventilation into the unit for boxes, consoles and amplifiers, using open backs, gaps or vented doors. Each box should have its own space and you can check the maker’s guidance on clearances.
How do I get a quote?
It’s easiest to message us from the contact page and let us know about the room. After that, we arrange a design visit and follow it with a written quote.
What do you do at the measuring visit?
We measure the space and discuss the design, materials and finish. We look at the walls, floors and anything the furniture has to work around, and the written quote comes afterwards.
Flats, conversions and leaseholders
Leaseholders should check the lease before anything is fixed to the walls. Some leases need the building owner’s consent for alterations, and that is best sorted before fitting day. We can’t give advice on leases.
A lot of London’s terraced houses are now converted flats, and that often means a shared hallway and a tight turn on the stairs. We plan the size of each section around it.