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TV and media units in Golders Green, Barnet
In Golders Green, we design TV and media units around the room you actually have. We design your TV unit at a visit to your home, make it in our workshop and fit it.
- A TV stand that doesn’t fit the wall
- A TV that looks out of place in the room
- Speakers muffled behind doors
TV and media units in Golders Green
When is bespoke worth it?
Flat-pack and off-the-shelf furniture has its place. In a room with square walls and standard sizes, it can work well, and it’s quick to buy.
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.
How we make TV and media units for Golders Green
A built-in TV unit gives the screen, the boxes, the speakers and the cables one planned home. The wall is planned as a whole, rather than a stand with wires trailing behind it. For a living room in Golders Green, the first step is a design visit to measure up and look at your equipment. People usually come to us about nowhere good for speakers and alcoves either side of the chimney breast going to waste; the furniture is made from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, spray-painted or hand-painted.
Older houses tend to come with picture rails, tall skirtings and cornices, and TV and media units need to meet those lines neatly. A large share of the housing around Golders Green went up before 1919, so mouldings are something we expect to talk about during the design visit. The top line can stop at the rail or run on to the cornice, depending on the room.
The furniture is built in our workshop after you have had the quote and decided to go ahead. The quote sets out the agreed design, materials and finish, so you can check every detail beforehand.
- Place
- Golders Green (NW11, NW2, NW3)
- Area
- Barnet
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- Design visit, then a written quote
- Made
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Boards and paint
- MDF and birch plywood, painted
- Fitting days
- Weekdays, and Saturdays by prior arrangement
- Enquiries
- The contact form
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
Boards, parts and paint
Hand-painted finish
A hand-painted finish can be done on site once the unit is fitted. It is easy to touch up later.
Doors and drawer fronts
Some equipment needs line of sight for its remote, so we may leave those shelves open.
Living-room storage in Golders Green
About 52% of the homes in the streets around Golders Green went up before 1919, and about 26% between 1919 and 1939, based on the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax data. We take that into account at the design visit, since older and newer walls take different fixings. The centre of Golders Green is within about a quarter of a mile of the Golders Green Town Centre Conservation Area. Conservation area rules mainly cover the outside of buildings, so fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission. If in doubt, the council’s planning team can confirm. About 52% of homes in the area around Golders Green were built before 1919, based on the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax data. Older houses usually have a chimney breast and alcoves, which suit a TV in the middle and media storage either side, with cable routes and ventilation planned in.
Near listed buildings like Church of St Jude, about 0.6 miles north-east of the centre of Golders Green, older homes may keep original joinery that TV and media units can be designed around. For a listed home, fixing into original features may need listed building consent. For a flat near Cricklewood station, each piece is planned so it can be carried up and joined together in the room.
Golders Green is about 2 miles north of Finchley, part of the London Borough of Barnet. Anywhere in Golders Green, the process is the same: we visit and measure, send a written quote, make the furniture in our workshop and fit it. Our work takes in places right across Barnet, from the busiest high streets to quiet residential roads.
Postcode districts we cover here for TV and media units: NW11, NW2 and NW3. Whether you live on a street such as Nant Road, Hoop Lane and Park Avenue or on one nearby, we can visit to measure up for TV and media units. Neighbouring places we cover for TV and media units include Temple Fortune (1 mile north), Childs Hill (1 mile south), North End (1 mile south-east), Hampstead Garden Suburb (1 mile north-east) and Vale of Health (1 mile south-east). Other parts of Barnet we cover include Finchley (2 miles north), Barnet (5 miles north), Burnt Oak (4 miles north-west), East Finchley (2 miles north-east), Whetstone (4 miles north) and Edgware (4 miles north-west).
Local landmarks in Golders Green
In Golders Green, that includes homes near The Old Bull and Bush pub, The Henrietta Barnett School and The King Alfred School, among other places. Golders Green’s nearest station is Cricklewood station, roughly 1.2 miles south-west of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Brent Cross Shopping Centre (1.1 miles west) and Kenwood House (1.3 miles east). Not far away are Turner's Wood.
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Questions from Golders Green
My house in Golders Green is Victorian. Can you deal with uneven walls?
Yes, that’s 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. Fixings are chosen for the wall, whether solid brick or lath and plaster.
I live near Cricklewood station. Is that in your area?
Yes, homes across Barnet and the rest of London are within the area we cover. You can message us from the contact page to arrange a design visit, and let us know about parking and access at the same time.
How do I get started?
It is easiest to use our contact form with a few details about the room. After that, we arrange a design visit and follow it with a written quote.
Do pictures help?
Yes. They give us a feel for the space before we visit, along with rough measurements. Show anything the furniture has to work around, such as radiators or sockets.
How long does it take to fit a TV unit?
The fitting depends on the size of the unit and the cable routes planned into it, 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 the cables be hidden?
We design the unit so cables run out of sight. Access panels make future changes easy without taking the unit apart. If the TV is wall-mounted, we plan a route behind the screen.
What prompts TV and media units in Golders Green
In an open-plan space, the TV wall is on show from everywhere. A built-in unit gives that wall order and holds books and everyday things as well.
TV and media units can help with:
- Games, controllers and remotes everywhere
- A screen at the wrong height
- Speakers muffled behind doors
- Cables trailing across the wall
For an older house near Church of St Alban the Martyr, the alcoves beside a chimney breast are the natural place for TV and media units.
Before you choose who makes it
- Will the doors close with even gaps?
- How they deal with uneven walls and floors
- Who does any electrics, plumbing or gas work
- Have they measured the stairs, lift and doorways?
What affects the cost of TV and media units
The price reflects the time and materials the job needs. The main factors are:
- The number of doors and drawers
- Whether you choose a spray or hand-painted finish
- How big the furniture is
- Walls and floors that are out of level or out of square
Because every job is different, the cost is set out in a written quote after the visit. A larger piece means more material and more time, so size is the starting point. After that, the number of doors and drawers, the internal fittings and the finish all play a part.
Helping us understand the room
Before the design visit, it helps us to know about:
- Approximate measurements of the space
- Examples of the look you are after
- What kind of home it is, and which floor the room is on
- How you want to use the space
To make a start, send us a few details through our contact form and let us know which room you have in mind and roughly what you’d like. From there, we arrange a design visit to measure up and talk through your ideas, and a quote in writing follows.
What happens on fitting day
Getting everything level comes first. Floors are often out of level, so adjustable feet or a plinth take up the difference. Only then is it fixed to the wall, with fixings chosen to suit brick, lath and plaster or plasterboard. On fitting day, edges are trimmed on site to follow the walls, so a clear area to work in near the room helps. Dust is kept down and cleared up as we go. Hand painting, if that’s your finish, can follow the fitting.
- You send us a note about the room and the unit you’d like.
- We visit to measure and go through the design and how the unit should look in the room.
- A written quote follows, with the finish set out.
- We build the unit in our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood; a spray-painted finish is applied there for a smooth, even surface.
- The unit is fitted and scribed to the walls, and any hand painting is done in the room.
Before we arrive
- Take anything hanging off the wall we’re fitting to
- Check the building’s rules for trades and lift bookings
- Move anything in the hall or on the stairs out of the way
Arranging a design visit
Rough measurements are fine at the start. We measure everything properly during the design visit, along with the walls, floor and ceiling. To arrange it, drop us a line using the contact form with some details about the room. The written quote follows the visit.