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Lambeth · London
TV and media units in Clapham, Lambeth
TV and media units for your home in Clapham: built-in TV walls and media cabinets. We visit to measure and discuss the design, make the furniture in our workshop and fit it.
- Clutter around the TV
- Boxes and consoles on the floor
- A tangle of wires behind the TV
TV and media units designed for your room
How fitting works for TV and media units
At the end, we tidy up. Before we go, we look over the finished furniture with you and explain how to look after the paint. The time the fitting takes depends on the size of the unit and how many cupboards and shelves it has, and your quote sets out the fitting days. On fitting day in an older house, the main job is scribing to walls and levelling on floors that slope, so each piece is trimmed and adjusted on site. We protect the floors and keep dust to a minimum. It’s useful to tell us about parking during the design visit, as terraced streets are often busy.
- You get in touch with details of the room and where it is in your home.
- At the design visit we measure the wall and also the hall, stairs and doorways the unit has to pass through. Let us know about parking too, since a van may need a visitor permit or a paid bay.
- 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.
- The sections are carried in, assembled and set level, ready for your equipment.
Before fitting day
- Let us know where the boiler and meters are
- Let us know if your street is in a controlled parking zone
- Clear the hallway and stairs so the sections can come through
Getting a quote
To get a quote for TV and media units in Clapham, get in touch through our contact form. Tell us which room it is and roughly what you have in mind, plus any rough sizes. We will arrange a design visit, then send a written quote.
Advice
About our TV and media units in Clapham
We make TV and media units from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood in our workshop. You choose a spray-painted or hand-painted finish, in a colour agreed with you. We work across London, including Clapham once the design and quote are agreed. If you are living with bought furniture that doesn’t suit the room and speakers muffled behind doors, TV and media units made from birch plywood and moisture-resistant MDF with a spray-painted or hand-painted finish can solve it.
In a Victorian or Edwardian terrace, the chimney breast tends to survive even when the fireplace itself has been blocked up. Around Clapham, where a large share of homes date from before 1919, that’s a common starting point. The recesses either side take TV and media units scribed to the plaster and cut around the skirting, so they sit as if they came with the house.
The written quote is your record of the job. It describes the TV unit we’ve designed for the room, its materials and its finish, and the workshop works from it.
- Location
- Clapham (SW4, SW8, SW9)
- Area
- Lambeth
- Prices
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- We visit, measure, then quote
- Making
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Materials and finish
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Working days
- Weekdays; Saturdays on request
- Enquiries
- The contact form
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
What TV and media units cannot fix
We are carpenters, so some jobs belong to other trades. It helps to know these before you plan the job:
- Connecting the TV signal or internet
- Connecting and setting up your equipment
- Moving sockets or adding new wiring, which is for your electrician
If in doubt, you can drop us a line using the contact form and describe the room before you arrange a visit. How it works.
What goes into it
- Ventilated cabinets
- Birch plywood
- Spray-painted finish
- Hand-painted finish
- Cable routes
- Moisture-resistant MDF
Living-room carpentry in Clapham: local notes
About 45% of the homes in the streets around Clapham went up before 1919, and about 21% between 1945 and 1972, on the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures for 2025. It is a good starting point, though every room is still measured, as two homes of the same age rarely match. The National Heritage List has 129 entries within half a mile of the centre of Clapham. Older homes nearby may have original joinery, shutters or panelling worth keeping, and the furniture can be designed around them rather than over them. About 24% of households in the streets around Clapham live in flats in converted or shared houses, according to Census 2021. Conversions often leave rooms in unusual shapes, with partition walls, boxed-in pipes and chimney breasts in odd places, and the way in often goes up shared stairs. If your flat is leasehold, check your lease before anything is fixed to the walls.
If your children go to Clapham Manor Primary School or a school nearby, low doors that small hands can open, with books and ornaments higher up, suit a busy family room. If your home is one of the older houses near St Paul's Church, picture rails and cornices give TV and media units a line to finish at. Living in a block of flats near Clapham High Street station? Then check any building rules on lifts and working hours early, and the sections will be sized for the way in.
Clapham is about 1 mile east of Stockwell, in the London Borough of Lambeth. We can visit homes in Clapham on weekdays, or on a Saturday by prior arrangement. We cover places right across Lambeth.
Here we cover the SW4, SW8 and SW9 postcode area for TV and media units. Whether you live on a street like Grafton Square, Clapham High Street and Houghton Square or on one nearby, we can arrange a design visit for TV and media units. The B224 and B303 run close to Clapham; on busy main roads, unloading TV and media units takes a little planning. We also cover the places around Clapham: Stockwell (1 mile east), Little Portugal (1 mile north-east), Clapham Park (1 mile south), South Lambeth (1 mile north-east) and Brixton (1 mile south-east). Other parts of Lambeth we cover include Streatham (3 miles south), West Norwood (3 miles south-east), South Bank (3 miles north), Loughborough Junction (2 miles east), Waterloo (3 miles north-east) and Vauxhall (2 miles north-east).
Near you in Clapham
Our area takes in the homes around The Bread and Roses pub, Lambeth Academy and Trinity Academy and the streets around them. There is a railway station in Clapham itself: Clapham High Street station. Other landmarks nearby include Soseki Museum (close by, under half a mile west) and Battersea General Hospital (1.3 miles north-west). Green spaces nearby include Battersea Park Lake.
Questions we are often asked
Do I need permission for fitted furniture in a conservation area?
Not normally. Conservation area controls are mainly about the outside of buildings, so fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission. If your home is listed, internal works that affect its character can require listed building consent, so check with the council first. If you are unsure, the council can confirm.
Can you fit TV and media units to the uneven walls of an older house in Clapham?
Yes. Walls in older houses are rarely flat or square, and floors are often out of level, so each piece is scribed to follow the wall and set level on a plinth or adjustable feet. Skirting, picture rails and cornices are met neatly or cut around. Older walls can be solid brick or lath and plaster, and the fixings are chosen to suit.
How long are you in the house for fitting?
The time on site depends on the length of the TV wall and what it needs to hold, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. We’ll explain what fitting day involves before we start.
Do TV units need ventilation?
Media equipment runs warm and needs airflow. The unit is planned with open backs or gaps where boxes go. Keep the vents clear once it is in use.
Do you work in Clapham?
Yes, we do. We work in Clapham and across Lambeth.
What materials do you use?
Moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, depending on the part and the design. Your quote sets out the materials.
What it is made from
Hand-painted finish
A hand-painted finish can be done on site once the unit is fitted. Small marks are simple to touch up.
Moisture-resistant MDF
Wide panels around a screen need to stay flat. MDF gives smooth, even surfaces for painting with crisp edges.
Nearby places to Clapham
What else we make in Clapham
What it costs
Prices vary from room to room, and it comes down to:
- How square the room is
- The number of doors and drawers
- How big the furniture is
- Hanging rails, shelves, drawers and other fittings inside
Parking is part of the price picture in London. The boroughs run controlled parking zones across much of the city, so a van may need a visitor permit, a paid bay or a bay suspension near your home. It’s useful to talk about parking at the design visit, so it can be planned.
What to send when you get in touch
You don’t need exact measurements or a plan. It’s enough to send:
- Anything in the way, like radiators, sockets, switches, a boiler or meters
- What the furniture needs to hold
- A few pictures of the space, taken from the doorway and from each corner
- The postcode, so we can plan the visit
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. To book one, use our contact form.
Is bespoke worth it?
Standalone TV units cost less and arrive quickly. A stand is also simple to swap when technology moves on, which is a fair point in its favour. A built-in unit is planned for your room and your equipment. Tall ceilings in older homes leave a band of empty wall above standard furniture, wasting space that could hold things you rarely use. Built-in pieces can run to the cornice or the picture rail.
Every room is priced on its own, because the size, the layout and the finish all vary. Spray painting and hand painting are different processes, which affects the cost. You will see the figure in your written quote, after the design visit.
Why us?
- Made for your room, not a standard size
- Edges scribed to follow your walls
- Spray painted or hand painted, in the colour you choose
- We visit, measure and talk through the design before we quote