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Brent · London
Kensal Rise TV and Media Units
TV and media units in Kensal Rise: built-in TV walls and media cabinets. Each piece is designed at a visit to your home, built in our workshop and fitted by us.
- Equipment running hot in a closed cupboard
- Bought furniture that doesn’t suit the room
- Wasted space around the screen
TV and media units designed for your room
How we make TV and media units for Kensal Rise
A built-in TV wall often needs sockets in new places. That is work for your electrician. It’s best done before we fit so the sockets land in the right place. If you are living with a big screen that dominates the wall and a tangle of wires behind the TV, that’s what TV and media units are for, made from moisture-resistant MDF and strong birch plywood, with a painted finish.
Victorian and Edwardian houses were built with solid brick outside walls, while the walls inside can be brick or lath and plaster. Since a large share of the homes around Kensal Rise date from before 1919, we check which you have before deciding how TV and media units are fixed. Lath and plaster needs a lighter touch and the right fixings, especially behind loaded shelves.
The furniture is made in our workshop after you’ve had the quote and decided to go ahead. It describes the design, the materials and the finish agreed at the visit, so every detail can be checked first.
- Place
- Kensal Rise (W10, NW10, NW6)
- Area
- Brent
- Prices
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- We visit, measure, then quote
- Making
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Made from
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Fitting days
- Weekdays (Saturdays if arranged)
- Enquiries
- Our contact form
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
How fitting works for TV and media units
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 measuring visit. From there, we protect the floors, bring the furniture in and get on with the fitting. How long fitting takes depends on the length of the TV wall and what it needs to hold, and the fitting days are set out in your quote. 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 is useful to let us know about parking at the measuring 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.
- We send a written quote.
- The unit is built in our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, in sections that fit the route in.
- We bring the sections in, join them on the wall and scribe them to fit.
Preparing the room
- Check the building’s rules for trades and lift bookings
- Move furniture and belongings away from the wall
- Make sure pets are kept safely away
How to get a quote
We quote each job for the room it’s going into, after the design visit. Each room is different, so we quote after seeing it. To arrange a visit, message us from the contact page.
Related advice
Questions we’re often asked
Can parking be tricky on fitting day in Kensal Rise?
It depends on the street, as many London boroughs run controlled parking zones. Depending on the street, a visitor permit, a paid bay or a bay suspension through the council may be needed, and suspensions often need notice. It’s useful to let us know about parking at the measuring visit.
Can you make TV and media units for a home in Kensal Rise?
Yes. We cover all of Brent and the rest of London, and Kensal Rise is part of that. The first step is a design visit, where we measure and discuss the design, followed by a quote.
How long does it take to fit a TV unit?
How long 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. We will talk you through what to expect beforehand.
How do you hide the TV cables?
We plan cable routes through the unit from the start. Where cables reach the wall depends on the sockets, and your electrician can move them if needed.
Can the fitting be on a Saturday?
Yes, by arrangement. Tell us when you get in touch if a Saturday suits you best.
How is the furniture painted?
There are two ways to finish it: spray painted or hand painted. A spray finish is smooth and even, while a hand-painted one is easy to touch up later.
Neighbourhoods near Kensal Rise
What else we make in Kensal Rise
Honest limits
As carpenters, we leave some work to other trades. These are worth knowing before you plan:
- Installing aerials, satellite dishes or broadband
- Configuring the TV and sound system
- Any electrical work (your electrician handles that, and Part P covers some of it)
Not sure whether your space suits TV and media units? You can tell us about the room on our contact form and we’ll tell you before you arrange a visit. How a job runs, step by step.
What it is made from
- Hand-painted finish
- Ventilated cabinets
- Spray-painted finish
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Cable routes
- Birch plywood
How we price TV and media units
What you pay depends on:
- Parking near your home
- The width and height of the space
- Spray painting or hand painting
- Stairs, lifts and the route to the room
Because every job is different, the cost is set out in a written quote after the visit. Bigger pieces use more board and take longer to make and fit, so size comes first. After that, the number of doors and drawers, the internal fittings and the finish all play a part.
Getting in touch
Getting a few details early makes the visit more useful. If you can, send:
- Approximate measurements of the space
- What you’d like to store or use the space for
- The type of home and how the room is reached
- Your postcode and the borough
Every quote follows a design visit. We measure the space, check the walls and floors and discuss what you’d like, and the written quote comes after. There’s no price list: each design is priced in writing after we’ve seen the space. To arrange a visit, drop us a line using the contact form.
Flats, blocks and rented homes
If you live in a flat, getting the furniture in is planned from the start. At the design visit, we measure the stairs, the landings, any lift and the doors, so the furniture can be made in sections that fit through without a struggle.
Many London terraces have been converted into flats, which often brings a shared hall and tight turns on the stairs. We plan the size of each section around it, once we have measured the way in.
Kensal Rise homes and TV and media units
Homes built before 1919 make up about 53% of the housing in the area around Kensal Rise, with about 13% built between 1919 and 1939, in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. We take that into account during the design visit, since older and newer walls take different fixings. Entries on the National Heritage List near the centre of Kensal Rise include The Anglican Chapel (Grade I), about 0.5 miles south-west, and The Dissenters Chapel (Grade II*), less than half a mile south. Listing covers the inside of a building as well as the outside, so works that affect a listed home’s character, like removing original joinery, can require listed building consent. It’s worth speaking to the council’s conservation officer before the design is final. More than half of the homes in the neighbourhood around Kensal Rise (about 53%) were built before 1919, going by the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax figures. In houses of that age, the chimney breast often becomes the TV wall, with cupboards in the alcoves for set-top boxes and speakers.
If you live near Queen’s Park, TV and media units can be planned to frame a window with a view rather than block it. If you live in a period home close to Church of St John the Evangelist, the alcoves beside a chimney breast are the natural place for TV and media units. If your children go to Ark Franklin Primary Academy or a school nearby, low doors that small hands can open, with books and ornaments higher up, suit a busy family room.
Kensal Rise is in the London Borough of Brent, about 1 mile north-east of Kilburn. Homes in Kensal Rise are part of the area we cover for TV and media units, as part of our work in every London borough. Across Brent, we cover Kensal Rise and the places around it.
In W10, NW10 and NW6, the process is the same as anywhere else in London. We cover homes on streets such as Hazel Road, Hiley Road and Kempe Road, along with the roads around them, for TV and media units and any of our other fitted furniture. Nearby, we also make TV and media units in Kensal Green (1 mile west), Kilburn (1 mile north-east), Queen's Park (1 mile east), North Kensington (1 mile south) and Kensal Town (1 mile south-east). We also make TV and media units in nearby places like Neasden (2 miles north-west), Wembley (4 miles north-west), Kenton (5 miles north-west), Church End (2 miles north-west), Stonebridge (2 miles west) and Cricklewood (2 miles north).
Near you in Kensal Rise
We fit furniture in homes around Queens Park Community School, Brondesbury College and Paradise by Way of Kensal Green pub. There is a railway station in Kensal Rise itself: Kensal Rise station. Well-known places in the area include Brent Museum and Archives (1.1 miles north-west) and Princess Louise Hospital (0.9 miles south). For a walk, there is Greville Place nature reserve.
When is bespoke worth it?
Cost matters, and it is fair to say so: flat-pack is normally cheaper to buy. Bespoke earns its place where the room is awkward, space is tight or you want the furniture to look part of the house.
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, because scribing and the right fixings start to matter.