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Richmond upon Thames · London
TV and Media Units in Richmond
Planning TV and media units for a home in Richmond? It starts with a design visit to measure and talk through ideas, then a written quote.
- Clutter around the TV
- Equipment with nowhere proper to go
- A screen at the wrong height
TV and media units for your home in Richmond
TV and media units in Richmond: what you get
Speakers need space to be heard properly. A soundbar usually sits just below the TV, while larger speakers suit open shelves at the sides. Closing speakers in a cupboard muffles them, so we plan open spaces for them. People typically come to us about space for a soundbar and speakers and bought furniture that doesn’t suit the room; the furniture is made from moisture-resistant MDF and strong birch plywood, with a painted finish.
Solid brick external walls are standard in Victorian and Edwardian houses, while the walls inside can be brick or lath and plaster. With so many homes around Richmond built 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.
After the design visit, we send you a quote in writing. It sets out the design we’ve talked through, the materials and the finish, so you know exactly what you are getting.
- Place
- Richmond (TW9, TW1, TW10)
- Borough
- Richmond upon Thames
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- We visit, measure, then quote
- Made
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Made from
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- When we fit
- Weekdays (Saturdays if arranged)
- Enquiries
- Send us a message
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Your questions about TV and media units in Richmond
Can you fit furniture in a home close to Richmond station?
Yes. We cover all of Richmond upon Thames and the rest of London. To get started, you can tell us about the room on our contact form with a few details about the room, and tell us about parking and access at the same time.
Can parking be tricky on fitting day in Richmond?
It depends on the street, as many London boroughs run controlled parking zones. A van may need a visitor permit, a pay-and-display bay or a suspended bay, which the council arranges, often with notice. It helps to tell us about parking at the design visit, so we can plan the day around it.
How do you get the furniture up the stairs?
We plan the route in at the measuring visit. We measure the stairs, landings, lift and doors, and each section is made to a size that will get through.
Who moves the sockets for a built-in TV wall?
Electrical work isn’t something we do. Sockets and wiring are for your electrician. We share the layout so the sockets line up with the design.
Can a built-in unit hide all the wires?
Cable routes are built into the design, with access panels for later changes. Where the cables meet the wall depends on where the sockets are, and your electrician can move them if needed.
Do you work on Saturdays?
Yes, we can arrange Saturdays. Let us know when you first get in touch.
Richmond homes and TV and media units
In the streets around Richmond, the largest groups of homes date from before 1919 (about 54%) and between 1919 and 1939 (about 17%), according to Valuation Office Agency council tax figures (2025). It is a good starting point, though every room is still measured, as two homes of the same age rarely match. Within a mile of the centre of Richmond, 19 conservation areas are recorded by Historic England. Historic England says England has around 10,000, and the controls mainly cover the outside of buildings, so fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission. Red routes, run by TfL, have strict rules on stopping and loading. If your home is on or just off a main road, it’s useful to mention it. Then we can work out where to load and unload.
Pembroke Lodge, about 1 mile south, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. If your own home is a period one, picture rails and cornices give TV and media units a line to finish at. If your home is as old as some of the listed buildings nearby, like The Wick and Wick Cottage, original features like shutters, panelling and fireplaces are worth designing around. For a listed home, fixing into original features can require listed building consent.
Richmond is part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, about 2 miles west of Twickenham. We work across all London boroughs and the City of London, and Richmond is part of that. Our work takes in places right across Richmond upon Thames.
We make TV and media units across TW9, TW1 and TW10. Streets in the area include Kew Road, Dee Road and Park Road, and we cover homes on all of them for TV and media units. Neighbouring places we cover for TV and media units include Petersham (1 mile south), St Margarets (1 mile west), Eel Pie Island (1 mile south-west), Ham (1 mile south) and Isleworth (2 miles north-west). We also make TV and media units in nearby places like Twickenham (2 miles west), Teddington (2 miles south-west), Hampton (4 miles south-west), Barnes (3 miles north-east), Kew (2 miles north-east) and Hanworth (4 miles south-west). Richmond is one of the larger places we cover in Richmond upon Thames.
Near you in Richmond
We fit furniture in homes around The Victoria pub, Kneller Hall Junior School and Christ's Church of England Comprehensive Secondary School and the streets around them. For rail, the closest station is Richmond station, roughly 0.5 miles north of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include South Middlesex Hospital (1.6 miles west) and Eel Pie Island Museum (1.2 miles south-west). Open spaces near Richmond include Richmond Hill and Kew Gardens Lake.
Pricing TV and media units in Richmond
The price for your room depends on:
- Parking near your home
- The finish: spray painted or hand painted
- The number of doors and drawers
- How easy it is to get the furniture into the room
Rooms that are not square take more work: walls that lean, floors that slope and sloping ceilings all mean more scribing and cutting. The quote allows for it.
What to send when you get in touch
The more you can tell us at the start, the better the design visit goes. It’s useful to include:
- The postcode, so we can plan the visit
- The type of home and how the room is reached
- Rough sizes: width, height and depth
- Anything fixed to the wall that the furniture needs to work around
We quote once we’ve seen the room. We measure the space, check the walls and floors and discuss what you’d like, and the written quote comes after. Every piece is quoted for your room after the design visit. To book a design visit, fill in our short enquiry form.
Boards, parts and paint
Birch plywood
For carcasses and drawer boxes, birch plywood is hard-wearing that stand up to daily use. Its layered edge can be painted or shown.
Plinths and scribe strips
Period walls usually need scribing. It is what gives the unit its built-in look.
Why people ask for TV and media units in Richmond
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.
Here are some of the needs we’re asked about most:
- Leads that show from every angle
- Nowhere good for speakers
- Bought furniture that doesn’t suit the room
- Games, controllers and remotes everywhere
For families living near The Vineyard School, a cupboard for board games and a shelf for reading books can go into the same design.
Choosing a carpenter
- Whether the quote follows a visit to your home
- Real projects you can actually look at
- Will the doors close with even gaps?
- Is it spray painted or hand painted?
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Bespoke or off-the-shelf?
Standard units come in set widths and heights, so there’s normally a gap left over at the top or at one end. Furniture we make is built to the room’s own sizes, so it can run to the ceiling and fill the width.
The real difference is in the fit: edges scribed to the wall, a level base on a sloping floor and a neat line where the furniture meets the ceiling. Off-the-shelf furniture cannot normally do that in an older room.
From workshop to your room
When we arrive on fitting day, the first job is covering the floors and protecting the way in from the front door. Next, we carry in the sections made in our workshop, a piece at a time. How long the fitting takes depends on the size of the unit and how many cupboards and shelves it has, and the fitting days are set out in your quote. Scribing is done on site, which means some cutting in the room or close by, so we ask for a clear space to work near the room. Dust is kept down and cleared up as we go. Where the finish is hand-painted, it can be done after the pieces are in.
- You describe the TV wall and your equipment, from set-top boxes to speakers.
- A design visit follows, where we measure and agree the layout.
- We put the design, materials and finish into a written quote. If anything in it is unclear, ask us.
- We then make the unit in our workshop, with cable routes planned in.
- The unit is fitted in your home, ready for your equipment, with the cable routes left clear.
Before fitting day
- Point out meters, boilers and fuse boards near the furniture
- Empty the space we will be working in
- Take anything hanging off the wall we are fitting to
Getting a quote
Pictures help us understand the room before we visit. Pictures of the whole wall, the corners and the ceiling line tell us a lot about the space, particularly with rough measurements. To send them over, get in touch through our contact form, and we will arrange a design visit.