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TV and Media Units in Shirley Oaks
Planning TV and media units for a home in Shirley Oaks? It starts with a design visit to measure and talk through ideas, then a quote in writing.
- Space for a soundbar and speakers
- A big screen that dominates the wall
- Boxes with no ventilation
Need TV and media units in Shirley Oaks?
How we make TV and media units for Shirley Oaks
A built-in TV unit gives the screen, the boxes, the speakers and the cables one planned home. The wall is planned as a whole, rather than a stand with wires trailing behind it. For a living room in Shirley Oaks, we start with a design visit to measure and talk through what you use. If your home has clutter around the TV and space for a soundbar and speakers, TV and media units made from birch plywood and moisture-resistant MDF with a spray-painted or hand-painted finish can solve it.
Around Shirley Oaks, interwar houses or semi-detached and detached homes make up a good part of the housing. In a typical 1930s house, the front room has a bay at one end and a chimney breast with an alcove to either side, which decides where TV and media units sit. Walls are often truer than in older houses, but they’re still measured carefully and scribed where they wander.
Everything we agree during the design visit goes into the written quote: the layout, what goes inside, the materials used and the finish. If something is not quite right, tell us before anything is made.
- Where
- Shirley Oaks (CR0, SE25, CR9)
- Area
- Croydon
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- First step
- Design visit, then a quote in writing
- Making
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Boards and paint
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- When we fit
- Weekdays, and Saturdays by prior arrangement
- Get in touch
- Our contact form
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
TV and media units for homes in Shirley Oaks
In the neighbourhood around Shirley Oaks, the largest groups of homes date from between 1919 and 1939 (about 42%) and before 1919 (about 18%), in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. The age of a home tells us a lot about its walls, floors and ceilings, and so about how TV and media units are fixed and fitted. Entries on the National Heritage List near the centre of Shirley Oaks include Church of St Mildred (Grade II), about 0.6 miles west. If your own home is listed, works inside that affect its character, like fixing into or removing original joinery, can need listed building consent. An early word with the council’s conservation officer is the best first step. The ULEZ, run by TfL, takes in all of London, so Croydon is inside it. Vans bringing furniture to Shirley Oaks fall under it, just as they do across the rest of London. We plan parking and access with you at the measuring visit.
If you live near Ashburton Park, TV and media units can be planned to frame a window with a view rather than block it. If you live in a flat close to Elmers End station, each piece is planned so it can be carried up and joined together in the room.
Shirley Oaks is about 3 miles north-west of Thornton Heath, part of the London Borough of Croydon. We design and make TV and media units for homes in Shirley Oaks. Shirley Oaks is one of 32 places on our list for Croydon.
We cover every part of the CR0, SE25 and CR9 postcode area. Whether you live on a street such as Poppy Lane, Baring Road and Craven Road or on one nearby, we can visit to measure up for TV and media units. The A232 runs close to Shirley Oaks, so if your home is on a main road, mention it when you get in touch. If you are just outside Shirley Oaks, we also cover Shirley (1 mile east), Monks Orchard (1 mile east), Addiscombe (1 mile west), Ashburton (1 mile north-west) and Woodside (1 mile north-west). Elsewhere in Croydon, we also cover Thornton Heath (3 miles north-west), Croydon (2 miles south-west), Coulsdon (6 miles south-west), Purley (4 miles south-west), Broad Green (2 miles west) and Upper Norwood (3 miles north-west).
Landmarks near Shirley Oaks
Around Shirley Oaks, we cover homes near The Cricketers pub and St. John's Church of England Primary School and the streets around them. The nearest railway station is Elmers End station, roughly 1.2 miles north of the centre. Nearby you’ll also find National Psychosis Unit (1.1 miles east) and St George's Walk (1.9 miles west).
The problems TV and media units solve
In older living rooms, a TV can look out of place. Building it into the alcoves or around the chimney breast makes it part of the room.
These come up often when people first get in touch:
- Bought furniture that does not suit the room
- Cables trailing across the wall
- Games, controllers and remotes everywhere
- Speakers muffled behind doors
For an older house near Shirley Methodist Church, picture rails and cornices give TV and media units a line to finish at.
Questions to ask before you hire anyone
- Have they thought about parking near you?
- Who does any electrics, plumbing or gas work
- Can you see real work of theirs?
- Which materials they’ll use, named in the quote
FAQs: TV and media units in Shirley Oaks
Do you make TV and media units for homes in Shirley Oaks?
Yes. We cover all of Croydon and the rest of London, and Shirley Oaks is part of that. We start with a design visit to measure the room and talk through what you need, and then we send a quote.
Can you fit furniture in a home close to Elmers End station?
Yes. We cover all of Croydon and the rest of London. You can get in touch through our contact form to arrange a design visit, and tell us about parking and access at the same time.
What happens when you come to measure?
We take full measurements, look at the walls and floors and work through the design together. We will also ask about access and parking, and afterwards we send a quote in writing.
How is the price worked out?
Every job is priced for its room: the size, what goes inside, the finish and how square the room is all count. The written quote follows the design visit.
How long are you in the house for fitting?
The fitting depends on the length of the TV wall and what it needs to hold, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. The unit is built in our workshop first.
Does someone need to be home during the fitting?
Someone needs to let us in. It also helps to have someone around at the end, so we can go over the finished furniture together.
Caring for painted furniture
New paint needs time to cure fully, so go gently with it for a while. Beyond that, these tips help:
- Find out how much space each box needs around it
- Note which boxes need line of sight for their remotes
- Let us know about parking and access at the design visit
- List every box, console and speaker that needs a home
When you change equipment, use the cable routes we planned. It keeps everything neat.
Avoid piling devices on one shelf because heat builds up between them. Each one needs space around it.
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What else we make in Shirley Oaks
How we price TV and media units
The price reflects the time and materials the job needs. That depends on:
- Access to the room, such as stairs, lifts and narrow halls
- Walls and floors that are out of level or out of square
- The internal fittings
- The finish: spray painted or hand painted
We do not publish set prices, because every piece is designed for one room. We measure up, discuss the design and send a quote in writing, with the materials and finish set out. To arrange a design visit, message us from the contact page.
Getting in touch
Before the design visit, it helps us to know about:
- Anything fixed to the wall that the furniture needs to work around
- A few photos of the space, taken from the doorway and from each corner
- What kind of home it is, and which floor the room is on
- Rough measurements, even if they’re only to the nearest few centimetres
Getting a quote starts with some details: which room it is, rough sizes and a couple of photos if you can take them. To send them, message us from the contact page. After that, we arrange a visit to measure and discuss the design, then send a quote in writing.
What happens on fitting day
However carefully a piece is made in the workshop, it still has to meet the room, and that happens on fitting day. Few walls in older London homes are truly flat or square, so each edge that meets a wall is scribed to follow it. How long the fitting itself takes depends on the size of the unit and how many cupboards and shelves it has, and your quote sets out the fitting days. Some interwar and suburban streets have driveways, which can make unloading easier, so it is worth mentioning during the design visit. Otherwise, details of permits or nearby bays help. Floors and doorways are protected while the pieces come in.
- You tell us about the room and what the unit needs to hold, from set-top boxes to speakers.
- We come to measure and talk through screen height, speakers and cables.
- A quote in writing follows. If anything in it is unclear, ask us.
- We then make the unit in our workshop, with cable routes planned in.
- We bring it to your home and fit it in place.
Getting ready for fitting day
- Move furniture and belongings away from the wall
- Let us know if your street is in a controlled parking zone
- Keep pets in another room while we work
How to get a quote
The design visit is where every quote starts. We take full measurements, see how true the walls and floors are and work through the design together. A quote in writing follows the visit, so you can take your time with it. To arrange the visit, tell us about the room on our contact form.
Advice
What it is made from
Shelves
Shelves are sized for the equipment and speakers they carry.
Birch plywood
Birch plywood is stiff and grips screws firmly, which suits shelves for heavy speakers and amplifiers.