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TV and media units in Old Town, Croydon
Built-in TV walls and media cabinets, for homes in Old Town. We make each piece in our workshop and fit it in your home, with a spray or hand-painted finish.
- A TV that looks out of place in the room
- Games, controllers and remotes everywhere
- Nowhere good for speakers
Need TV and media units in Old Town?
Bespoke or off-the-shelf?
Off-the-shelf TV units come in a few set colours. Ours are painted in a colour agreed with you, sprayed in the workshop or painted by hand. Large off-the-shelf pieces can make a small room feel smaller, while fitted furniture, painted in a colour that suits the walls, reads as part of the room.
The inside of the furniture affects the price as well: rails, shelves, drawers and dividers all add work. At the design visit, we work out what you need inside, then set it out in the quote.
Why choose us
- More than 300 projects completed
- A spray or hand-painted finish
- We visit, measure and talk through the design before we quote
- Made in moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood
Take a look at bespoke vs off-the-shelf and how to compare quotes.
TV and media units in Old Town: what you get
TV units are made from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood. You choose a spray-painted or hand-painted finish, in a colour agreed with you. We fit across Croydon and the rest of London, after a design visit and a quote in writing. Most enquiries start with a tangle of wires behind the TV and a TV stand that doesn’t fit the wall, and the answer is made in our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and strong birch plywood, with a painted finish.
Open-plan living is usual in homes built since 2000, and many homes around Old Town were built in that time. In a room like that, TV and media units can help separate the sitting area from the kitchen, without putting up a wall. Finished floors in newer homes mark easily, so they’re covered while we work.
Where other trades are needed, for example an electrician to move a socket, we point that out. Our quote covers the carpentry: the design, the materials and the finish.
- Place
- Old Town (CR0, CR9, CR90)
- Area
- Croydon
- Prices
- Quoted for your room
- First step
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Where it’s made
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Made from
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- Working days
- Weekdays (Saturdays if arranged)
- Contact
- Our contact form
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
What affects the price in Old Town
There is no set price, because there is no set room. What affects it comes down to:
- How square the room is
- Parking near your home
- How easy it is to get the furniture into the room
- Doors and drawers, and how many
In London, parking can affect the price. The boroughs run controlled parking zones across much of the city, so we may need a visitor permit, a paid bay or a suspended bay near your home. It helps to talk about parking during the design visit.
What we need to know
To help us picture the room, please include:
- The postcode, so we can plan the visit
- What kind of home it is, and which floor the room is on
- How you want to use the space
- Anything fixed to the wall that the furniture needs to work around
To get a quote, drop us a line using the contact form and tell us a little about the room. We then arrange a design visit to measure and go through the design, and send you a quote in writing afterwards.
Do you need TV and media units in Old Town?
The most common reason is a mess of wires. Cables run everywhere, from the screen to the boxes and the wall, and no stand ever quite hides them. A built-in unit gives them a planned route.
TV and media units can help with:
- Space for a soundbar and speakers
- Cables trailing across the wall
- Set-top boxes stacked on a stand
- Games, controllers and remotes everywhere
Close to Duppas Hill? TV and media units can be planned to frame a window with a view rather than block it.
What to check before you book
- Do they scribe the furniture to the walls?
- Which materials they’ll use, named in the quote
- How the furniture will be finished, and where
- Have they thought about parking near you?
Questions from Old Town
Does a conservation area in or near Old Town affect fitted furniture?
Typically not: conservation area rules mainly cover the outside of buildings, and fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission. If your home is listed, internal works that affect its character can need listed building consent, so check with the council first. If you’re unsure, the council can confirm.
I live in a flat in Old Town. How will the furniture get up the stairs?
We measure the route in along with the room itself: the stairs, landings, lift and doors. The furniture is made in sections that fit the stairs and lift, and put together in the room. It is useful to check any building rules and your lease before fitting day.
Will the cables be hidden?
Cable routes are built into the design, with openings and access panels. Where cables reach the wall depends on the sockets, and your electrician can move them if needed.
How much will my TV unit cost?
Every job is priced for its room: the size, what goes inside, the finish and how square the room is all count. You will get a quote in writing once we’ve measured up.
Where should speakers go in a TV unit?
Speakers and soundbars get open shelves sized for them. Closing speakers behind a door muffles them.
Can you build a TV unit for a wall-mounted TV?
Where the TV is to be wall-mounted, we plan the unit around the bracket, with a route for the cables. The bracket needs a sound wall.
How fitting day works
The last stage of the day is the finish. If the furniture was spray painted in the workshop, we fill the fixing holes and touch up on site; if you chose hand painting, that can be done in the room once the furniture is fitted. Either way, the finish is the one set out in your quote. In a newer home, floors, walls and door frames are often freshly finished, so we protect the route before carrying anything in. Corners and door frames are covered as well. The sections are assembled in the room.
- You contact us with a short note about the room and the unit you have in mind, including the size of the screen.
- We come to measure, note the sockets and agree the layout. New sockets or wiring are for your electrician, so it is useful to have them in mind early.
- You receive a quote in writing setting out the unit, materials and finish, ready for you to check.
- Each section is built in our workshop to the measurements we took, with openings for cables and air.
- We fit it in your home, with the cable routes ready to use. We check the doors and shelves with you before we leave.
Before fitting day
- Clear the walls of pictures and shelves
- Keep pets out of the room and the hallway
- If you live in a block, book the lift and tell the building manager
How to get a quote
There’s no price list: each design is priced in writing after we’ve seen the space. Each room is different, so we quote after seeing it, when we’ve measured up and talked through the design. To arrange a visit, drop us a line using the contact form.
Related advice
Old Town homes and TV and media units
About 42% of the homes in the area around Old Town went up since 2000, and about 31% before 1919, in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. For carpentry, the era of a house is a useful clue to how square its rooms are and what its walls are made of. Within a mile of the centre of Old Town, 6 conservation areas are recorded by Historic England. England has around 10,000 in all, and their controls are largely about how buildings look from outside, so fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission. About 42% of homes in the neighbourhood around Old Town were built since 2000, going by the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax figures. Newer homes normally have plasterboard stud walls and open-plan rooms, often with no chimney breast, so the fixings go into the studs, or heavier pieces stand on the floor.
Near listed buildings like Parish Church of St John the Baptist, less than half a mile south-west of the centre of Old Town, older homes may keep original joinery that TV and media units can be designed around. If your own home is listed, check with the council before fixing into original features. For a flat near West Croydon station, each piece is planned so it can be carried up and joined together in the room.
Old Town is about 2 miles north of Thornton Heath, part of the London Borough of Croydon. From period terraces to newer flats in Old Town, the furniture is designed around the room as we find it. Old Town is one of 32 places on our list for Croydon.
We work across the CR0, CR9 and CR90 postcode area for TV and media units. If your home is on a street like Park Lane, Fell Road and Abbey Road, or close by, we can arrange a design visit for TV and media units. We also cover Waddon (1 mile south-west), Broad Green (1 mile north), Beddington (1 mile west), Bandonhill (1 mile south-west) and Russell Hill (2 miles south-west). We also make TV and media units in nearby places such as Thornton Heath (2 miles north), Coulsdon (4 miles south), Purley (3 miles south), Upper Norwood (3 miles north), Selhurst (2 miles north-east) and South Norwood (2 miles north-east).
Landmarks near Old Town
The streets we cover here include those near St Andrew's CofE School, The Gun Tavern and Rutherford School. Old Town has its own railway station: West Croydon station. Well-known places in the area include Centrale Croydon (within half a mile north-east) and Croydon Airport Visitor Centre (1.3 miles south-west).
Nearby places to Old Town
What else we make in Old Town
Could you do it yourself?
Shop-bought shelves can sag over a long span. How much a shelf bends depends on its span, depth and load, and long runs need a thicker shelf, a lip along the front or a support. We design shelves with that in mind.
If you are handy, a simple shelf or a standard wardrobe in a square room is a reasonable DIY job. Sloping ceilings, uneven floors and lath-and-plaster walls make it harder, where scribing and fixings that suit the wall are important.