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Richmond upon Thames · London
Kew TV and Media Units
Built-in TV walls and media cabinets, designed for your room in Kew. After a design visit and a written quote, it’s made at our workshop and fitted in your home.
- Somewhere to keep games tidy
- Set-top boxes stacked on a stand
- A screen at the wrong height
TV and media units for your home in Kew
TV and media units in Kew
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 the colour you prefer. We fit across Richmond upon Thames and the rest of London, after a design visit and a written quote. People usually come to us about a cabinet that traps heat and a TV that looks out of place in the room; the furniture is made from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, finished by spray or by hand.
Rooms in houses from before 1919 tend to have generous ceiling heights, and around Kew, a large share of homes are that age. Full-height TV and media units can run up to the picture rail or the cornice, so the furniture looks as if it belongs to the house. Where a fireplace has been blocked up, the chimney still needs ventilating, and any damp is sorted before units go in.
If the job needs another trade, like an electrician or a plumber, we will tell you, so it can be arranged before fitting day. The quote itself covers our work, from the design to the materials and finish.
- Location
- Kew (W4, TW9, TW8)
- Borough
- Richmond upon Thames
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- We visit, measure, then quote
- Made
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Made from
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- When we fit
- Weekdays, and Saturdays by prior arrangement
- Contact
- Send us a message
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
What it’s made from
Spray-painted finish
Spray painting is done in the workshop, giving a smooth, even surface.
Birch plywood
For carcasses and drawer boxes, birch plywood is hard-wearing. The edge can be painted or left as a detail.
Tips worth knowing
People planning TV and media units often ask about these. They’re worth knowing whatever the room:
- Talk to your electrician early about sockets
- Check where the seating will go
- Choose how the TV will sit before the design is finished
- List every box, console and speaker that needs a home
Once your equipment is in, check that it isn’t running hot. Do not block the gaps and openings left for air with cables or clutter.
Do not stack boxes on top of each other in one space. Each one needs space around it.
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When you need someone else
Electrics, plumbing, gas, plastering and structural work aren’t part of what we do. There are a few other points to bear in mind:
- Connecting and setting up your equipment
- Structural changes to the wall
- Plastering or decorating around the unit
If you are not sure what’s possible in your room, you can get in touch through our contact form and we will give you a straight answer. Our process from visit to fitting.
What it is made from
- Cable routes
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Birch plywood
- Hand-painted finish
- Ventilated cabinets
- Spray-painted finish
Made for the room, or bought in a box?
Bought units come in the maker’s finishes. We paint ours in the colour you choose, by spray or by hand. Ready-made pieces are proportioned for newer homes and can look lost in an older one, while fitted furniture can follow the room’s own lines.
Awkward rooms take more time: uneven walls, sloping floors and angled ceilings all add scribing and cutting on site. The quote allows for it, which we write after seeing the room.
What you get with us
- Made in moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood
- More than 300 projects completed
- Fitted tight to walls that are not straight
- Saturday visits and fitting by prior arrangement
See bespoke vs off-the-shelf and what a quote should include.
FAQs: TV and media units in Kew
Do you cover homes near Chiswick station?
Yes. We cover all of Richmond upon Thames and the rest of London. To get started, you can get in touch through our contact form with some details about the room, and let us know about parking and access at the same time.
Will parking be an issue for fitting furniture in Kew?
It can be, depending on whether your street is in a controlled parking zone. 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 during the design visit, and we’ll plan around it.
Can the TV unit fit a bigger TV later?
If you’re likely to upgrade, we can leave room for it. Tell us the size you have in mind.
How do I get a quote?
It is easiest to message us from the contact page. After that, we arrange a design visit and follow it with a written quote.
Who chooses the colour?
The choice is yours, and it’s agreed with you before painting. Whichever finish you pick, it is in the colour you have chosen.
Do I need planning permission for fitted furniture?
Not usually. Conservation area controls are mostly concerned with the outside of buildings, and fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission. Listed buildings are different: check with the council’s conservation officer first.
Fitting day, step by step
On the morning of the fitting, we start by protecting your floors and the route from the front door to the room. The sections made at our workshop come in next. 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. If your hall still has its original tiles or boards, they’re covered before any carrying starts. Fixings into older walls are made carefully, as lath and plaster can crack if treated roughly. Any decorating around the new pieces is for your decorator.
- You get in touch with details of the room and where it is in your home.
- We visit to plan the unit and check the way in.
- We send a quote in writing.
- 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. The finish is sprayed beforehand or painted by hand on site.
Preparing the room
- Take down pictures, mirrors and shelves from the wall
- Let us know about parking near your home
- If you live in a block, book the lift and tell the building manager
Ask for a quote
You don’t need exact measurements to get started. We measure everything properly at the measuring visit, along with the walls, floor and ceiling. To get started, message us from the contact page with a few details about the room. The written quote follows the visit.
Related advice
Kew homes and TV and media units
About 48% of the homes in the streets around Kew went up before 1919, and about 15% between 1919 and 1939, in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. Each era brings its own kind of wall, ceiling height and floor, so it shapes the design from the first measurement. The centre of Kew is within about a quarter of a mile of the Strand on the Green Conservation Area. Conservation area controls are largely about how buildings look from outside, and fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission. If you want to be certain, ask the council’s planning team. About 48% of homes in the neighbourhood around Kew were built before 1919, in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock 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.
The wider area includes historic houses like Kew Palace, about 0.7 miles west. For a period home anywhere nearby, picture rails and cornices give TV and media units a line to finish at. If you live near Kew Green, shelving that stops short of the window keeps the view of the green. For a family home near Grove Park Primary School, TV and media units can be planned with low cupboards for toys and higher shelves for everything else.
Kew is about 4 miles south-west of Twickenham, within the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Design visits and fitting in Kew can be on a Saturday, by arrangement. Our work takes in places right across Richmond upon Thames, large and small.
Here we cover the W4, TW9 and TW8 postcode area for TV and media units. Streets in the area include Kew Road, Maze Road and Kent Road, and we cover homes on all of them for TV and media units. The A3000 runs close to Kew; on busy main roads, unloading TV and media units takes a little planning. Close by, we also work in Strand-on-the-Green (1 mile north), Grove Park (1 mile east), North Sheen (1 mile south), Gunnersbury (1 mile north) and Turnham Green (1 mile east). Other parts of Richmond upon Thames we cover include Twickenham (4 miles south-west), Richmond (2 miles south-west), Richmond upon Thames (2 miles south-west), Teddington (5 miles south-west), Hampton (6 miles south-west) and Barnes (2 miles south-east).
Local landmarks in Kew
In Kew, that includes homes near Library for Iranian Studies, Chiswick School and Bull's Head pub and the streets around them. The nearest railway station is Chiswick station, roughly 0.5 miles south-east of the centre. A little further out are Barnes Hospital (1.5 miles south-east) and Museum No. 2. Monocotyledons and Cryptogams (0.6 miles west). For a walk, there is Kew Gardens Lake and Duke's Hollow.