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Cricklewood TV and Media Units
We make TV and media units for homes in Cricklewood, designed around the room you have. Your TV unit is designed at a visit to your home and built in our workshop.
- Cables trailing across the wall
- A TV that looks out of place in the room
- Equipment with nowhere proper to go
Need TV and media units in Cricklewood?
TV and media units for homes in Cricklewood
A built-in TV unit gives the screen, the boxes, the speakers and the cables one planned home. Instead of a stand, a tangle of wires and a few odd shelves, the whole wall is designed at once. For a living room in Cricklewood, we start with a design visit to measure and talk through what you use. If you’re living with leads that show from every angle and boxes with no ventilation, TV and media units made from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, spray-painted or hand-painted 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 Cricklewood, where a large share of homes date from before 1919, that is a common starting point. TV and media units built into the recesses either side are scribed to the plaster and cut around the skirting, so they sit as if they came with the house.
Everything we agree at the design visit goes into the written quote: the layout and internal fittings, the materials and the finish. If something is not quite right, tell us before anything is made.
- Place
- Cricklewood (NW2, NW6, NW10)
- Borough
- Brent
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- We visit, measure, then quote
- Where it is made
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Made from
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Working days
- Monday to Friday; Saturdays by arrangement
- Contact
- Our contact form
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
DIY, flat-pack or bespoke
It is worth being honest about cost: off-the-shelf furniture typically costs less up front. Bespoke makes more sense where the room is awkward, the space is valuable or you want the furniture to look built in.
A confident DIYer can manage simple shelves or a standard wardrobe in a square room. It gets harder with sloping ceilings, out-of-level floors and lath-and-plaster walls, where scribing and fixings that suit the wall are important.
Looking after your furniture
Fitted furniture is part of the room, so it is worth looking after. A few pointers help:
- Plan open spaces for anything controlled by a remote
- Mention parking and stairs when we visit
- Decide whether the TV will be wall-mounted or stand on the unit
- Note the size of each box and speaker
Painted finishes feel dry quickly but take longer to cure fully. For the first while, place equipment gently rather than sliding it to avoid marks.
Keep heavy speakers and amplifiers on lower shelves.
Flats, conversions and lettings
Blocks of flats often have their own rules on lift bookings, entry systems and times for trades. Let us know about them during 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.
What happens on fitting day
Furniture made in a workshop still has to meet the room it is going into, and fitting day is where that happens. Few walls in older London homes are truly flat or square, so we scribe the edges by hand to follow the wall, until the line is tight. How long the fitting itself takes depends on the size of the unit and the cable routes planned into it, and your quote sets out the fitting days. Terraced streets in London are often lined with parked cars, so it helps to tell us during the design visit what’s outside. Unloading is kept short, with sections taken straight inside. Saturday fitting can be arranged.
- You get in touch and tell us about the room and your equipment, including the size of the screen.
- We come to measure, note the sockets and agree the layout.
- You receive a quote in writing setting out the unit, materials and finish.
- Each section is built in our workshop to the measurements we took, with openings for cables and air.
- The unit is fitted in your home, levelled and scribed to the walls. We check the doors and shelves with you before we leave.
Before we arrive
- Get any new sockets or wiring done by your electrician before fitting day
- Move anything in the hall or on the stairs out of the way
- Point out meters, boilers and fuse boards near the furniture
Starting with a design visit
You do not need exact measurements to get started. We measure everything properly at the measuring visit. To get started, message us from the contact page. You receive a written quote after the visit.
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TV and media units for homes in Cricklewood
In the streets around Cricklewood, the largest groups of homes date from before 1919 (about 63%) and between 1919 and 1939 (about 12%), going by the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax figures. Each era brings its own kind of wall, ceiling height and floor, so it shapes the design from the first measurement. Near the centre of Cricklewood, Historic England’s list includes Church of St Gabriel (Grade II), under half a mile south, and The Crown Public House (Grade II), less than half a mile north-east. Where a home is listed, listed building consent can be needed for inside works that affect its character, such as fixing into original panelling. Ask the council’s conservation officer before anything is fixed. About 34% of households in the streets around Cricklewood live in flats in converted or shared houses, in the ONS Census 2021 figures. In a converted house, rooms can be odd shapes, with new partitions meeting old walls, and the route in may go through a shared hall and stairs. A lease can require consent for alterations, so it’s worth checking yours first.
Fenton House, about 1.7 miles east, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. If your own home is a period one, walls that bow and floors that slope are why TV and media units are scribed to fit rather than pushed into place. For a flat near Cricklewood station, it’s useful to book the lift and tell the concierge before fitting day. If you live near Gladstone Park, TV and media units can be arranged to keep the window and the light clear.
Cricklewood is about 1 mile south-east of Kilburn, in the London Borough of Brent. We design and make TV and media units for homes in Cricklewood and across Brent, as part of our work in every London borough. Across Brent, we cover Cricklewood, along with the rest of the borough.
Every address in NW2, NW6 and NW10 is covered for TV and media units. Streets in the area include Ivy Road, Walm Lane and Dean Road, and homes on each of them are within our area for TV and media units. Main roads around Cricklewood include the A407. If you’re just outside Cricklewood, we also cover Brondesbury (1 mile south-east), Willesden (1 mile south-west), Dollis Hill (1 mile north-west), Willesden Green (1 mile south-west) and Neasden (1 mile west). Other parts of Brent we cover include Harlesden (2 miles south-west), Wembley (3 miles west), Queen's Park (2 miles south-east), Kenton (4 miles north-west), Church End (2 miles south-west) and Kensal Rise (2 miles south).
What’s near Cricklewood
Our area takes in the homes around Hampstead School, Brondesbury College and The Crown Public House and the streets around them. Cricklewood has its own railway station: Cricklewood station. A little further out are St Andrew's Hospital (0.8 miles north-west) and Brent Museum and Archives (0.7 miles south-west). Not far away are Westbere Copse.
Where other trades come in
We make and fit furniture, and we don’t do electrics, plumbing, gas, plastering or structural work. There are a few other points to bear in mind:
- Painting the walls and ceiling
- Connecting the TV signal or internet
- New sockets behind the TV, which need an electrician
Not sure whether your space suits TV and media units? You can get in touch through our contact form and we’ll tell you. How it works.
Boards, parts and finishes
- Hand-painted finish
- Birch plywood
- Spray-painted finish
- Cable routes
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Ventilated cabinets
FAQs: TV and media units in Cricklewood
Can parking be tricky on fitting day in Cricklewood?
It depends on the street, as many London boroughs run controlled parking zones. A van may need a visitor’s permit, a paid parking bay or a bay suspension, which the council arranges, often with notice. It helps to let us know about parking at the measuring visit, so the day can be planned around it.
My home in Cricklewood is a period house with walls that are not straight. Is that a problem?
Yes, that is normal in older houses: each piece is scribed to the wall and levelled at the base. 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 do you hide the TV cables?
That is the aim, and it’s planned from the start. Access panels make future changes easy without taking the unit apart. For a wall-mounted TV, a route behind the screen is planned in.
How is the price worked out?
Each room is quoted on its own: size, internal fittings, the finish and how awkward the walls are all play a part. You’ll get a quote in writing once we have measured up.
What are your TV and media units made from?
We build with moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, depending on the part and the design. The materials are named in your written quote.
How do you get the furniture up the stairs?
We plan the route in at the measuring visit. The stairs, landings, any lift and the doorways are measured, and the furniture is made in sections sized to get through.