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TV and media units in Locksbottom, Bromley
In Locksbottom, 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 cabinet that traps heat
- A TV that looks out of place in the room
- Equipment with nowhere proper to go
TV and media units in Locksbottom
What we do not do
We do not treat damp or carry out building work, so these points are worth knowing:
- Connecting and setting up your equipment
- Painting the walls and ceiling
- Taking out a fireplace or chimney breast
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 before you arrange a visit. How it works.
What goes into it
- Cable routes
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Ventilated cabinets
- Spray-painted finish
- Birch plywood
- Hand-painted finish
TV and media units in Locksbottom
In a room with a chimney breast, the alcoves either side are natural places for media storage. The alcoves can take cupboards for equipment and shelves above leaving the TV in an alcove or on the breast. Any chimney vent is kept clear. If your home has leads that show from every angle and boxes with no ventilation, TV and media units made from birch ply and moisture-resistant MDF, painted by hand or sprayed can solve it.
Plenty of semis and interwar houses have been extended at the back or had the back rooms knocked through, and around Locksbottom, interwar houses, semis and detached homes make up a large share of the housing. A long through room gives TV and media units a whole wall to work with, or mark out the sitting end from the dining end. An extension’s plasterboard walls need different fixings from the original brick or block.
Materials are named in the quote: moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, each used where it suits the job. The finish is stated too, whether that’s spray painting or hand painting.
- Place
- Locksbottom (BR6, BR2, BR5)
- Borough
- Bromley
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- Design visit, then a written quote
- Where it’s made
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Made from
- MDF and birch plywood, painted
- When we fit
- Weekdays; Saturdays on request
- Contact
- Send us a message
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Do you need TV and media units in Locksbottom?
Families with consoles, games and controllers want them tidied away. Drawers and cupboards hold them out of sight.
Here’s what TV and media units can help with:
- Boxes with no ventilation
- A screen at the wrong height
- Boxes and consoles on the floor
- Wasted space around the screen
For a family home near Darrick Wood Infant & Nursery School, a cupboard for board games and a shelf for reading books can go into the same design.
Questions to ask before you hire anyone
- Whether the route into your home has been checked
- How doors and drawers are fitted
- Have they thought about parking near you?
- Will they visit to measure before quoting?
Questions from Locksbottom
Do you make TV and media units for homes in Locksbottom?
Yes, we work across Bromley, Locksbottom included, and across the rest of London. To get started, you can drop us a line using the contact form with some details.
Does a conservation area in or near Locksbottom affect fitted furniture?
Typically not: conservation area rules mainly cover the outside of buildings, and fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission. If your home is listed, internal works that affect its character may need listed building consent, so check with the council first. The council’s planning or conservation team can tell you if in doubt.
Do TV units need ventilation?
Ventilation is designed in wherever equipment sits, with open backs, gaps or openings. Each box should have its own space and you can check the maker’s guidance on clearances.
Do I need to be at home on fitting day?
We need access, so someone has to let us in. You don’t need to watch us work.
Where should speakers go in a TV unit?
We plan open spaces for speakers and soundbars. Closing speakers behind a door muffles them.
Is the furniture spray painted or hand painted?
You can choose between two finishes: spray painted or hand painted. Spray painting gives a smooth, even finish, and hand painting is easy to touch up.
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What it costs
There’s no set price, because there is no set room. What affects it comes down to:
- The internal fittings
- The overall size of the piece
- The number of doors and drawers
- Spray painting or hand painting
There’s no price list, because each job is designed for a single room. Instead, we measure, discuss the design and then quote in writing. To start, tell us about the room on our contact form.
Getting in touch
Before the design visit, it helps us to know about:
- Radiators, sockets, pipes or meters on or near the wall
- Any ideas or images you have saved
- Whether it is a house or a flat, and if there are stairs or a lift
- Approximate measurements of the space
The quote is built from the design visit. We measure the room properly, check how the walls and floors run and talk through the design with you. A quote in writing follows the visit for you to look over. To arrange the visit, get in touch through our contact form.
Living-room storage in Locksbottom
About 40% of the homes in the streets around Locksbottom went up between 1945 and 1972, and about 27% between 1919 and 1939, on the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures for 2025. Each era brings its own kind of wall, ceiling height and floor, so it shapes the design from the first measurement. The Farnborough Park Conservation Area is close by, within about a quarter of a mile of the centre of Locksbottom. Planning controls in conservation areas are mainly concerned with the outside of buildings, so fitting furniture inside a house does not normally need permission. If in doubt, the council’s planning team can confirm. About 27% of homes in the streets around Locksbottom date from between 1919 and 1939, going by the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax figures. Interwar front rooms normally have a bay at the front and a chimney breast on the side wall, which shape where TV and media units go.
The wider area includes historic houses like Down House, about 2.7 miles south. For a period home anywhere nearby, picture rails and cornices give TV and media units a line to finish at. If you live near South Park, shelving that stops short of the window keeps the view of the green.
Locksbottom is part of the London Borough of Bromley, about 2 miles north-east of Orpington. Our work covers every London borough and the City of London, Locksbottom included. In Bromley, Locksbottom is one of the places we cover, and the borough has 49 places on our list.
Design visits and fitting in BR6, BR2 and BR5 work the same way as everywhere else we cover. You’ll find streets here like Mada Road, Winton Road and Park Avenue, and we cover homes on all of them for TV and media units. We also cover Crofton (1 mile east), Farnborough (1 mile south-east), Petts Wood (1 mile north-east), Bromley Common (1 mile north-west) and Keston (1 mile south-west). Across the rest of Bromley, our area takes in Orpington (2 miles north-east), Bromley (3 miles north-west), Beckenham (5 miles north-west), St Mary Cray (3 miles north-east), Chislehurst (3 miles north) and Penge (6 miles north-west).
Landmarks near Locksbottom
Around Locksbottom, we cover homes near Darrick Wood School, among other places. Locksbottom’s nearest station is Orpington station, about 1.2 miles east. Nearby you’ll also find Princess Royal University Hospital (0.5 miles south-west) and Crofton Roman Villa (1.2 miles east).
Tips worth knowing
These points come up often when people plan TV and media units. They help before and after fitting:
- Note which boxes need line of sight for their remotes
- Note the screen size you have or plan to buy
- Decide whether the TV will be wall-mounted or stand on the unit
- Note the size of each box and speaker
Paint is dry to the touch well before it has fully cured. For the first while, place equipment gently rather than sliding it to avoid marks.
Keep heavy speakers and amplifiers on lower shelves, and no single shelf overloaded.
Fitting day, step by step
Fitting day follows a set order: floors are protected, the sections come in, everything is levelled, scribed to the walls, fixed and finished. At the end, we tidy up and go over the work with you. How long the fitting takes depends on the length of the TV wall and what it needs to hold, and your quote sets out the fitting days. Clearing the room and the way in beforehand helps the day run well. Fitting day starts with protecting the floors and setting out the pieces. Each piece is levelled, scribed where the wall wanders and fixed to suit the wall.
- You get in touch about a built-in TV unit, and where the sockets are now.
- We visit to measure, note the sockets and agree where everything will go.
- We send a written quote with the design, materials and finish, for you to look over.
- We build the unit in our workshop, with routes and ventilation planned in, from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- We fit it in your home, scribed to the walls and ready for your equipment.
Before fitting day
- Let us know if your street is in a controlled parking zone
- Let us know about any meters, fuse boards or boilers in the area
- Keep pets in another room while we work
Starting with a design visit
To make a start, fill in our short enquiry form and tell us a little about the room and roughly what you’d like. From there, we arrange a design visit to measure up and talk through your ideas, and a written quote follows.