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TV and media units in South Wimbledon, Merton
For homes in South Wimbledon, we make TV and media units from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood. The finish is spray painted or hand painted, in a colour agreed with you.
- A TV stand that doesn’t fit the wall
- Set-top boxes stacked on a stand
- Clutter around the TV
TV and media units for your home in South Wimbledon
Your questions about TV and media units in South Wimbledon
Do I need permission for fitted furniture in a conservation area?
Typically not: conservation area rules mainly cover the outside of buildings, and fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission. Listed buildings are different, as works inside that affect their character can need listed building consent from the council. The council’s planning or conservation team can tell you if in doubt.
My house in South Wimbledon is Victorian. Can you deal with uneven walls?
Yes, that’s normal in older houses: each piece is scribed to the wall and levelled at the base. Skirting, picture rails and cornices are met neatly or cut around. Older walls can be solid brick or lath and plaster, and the fixings are chosen to suit.
Does the unit work if the TV is on a bracket?
The unit can be planned either way. If the TV is wall-mounted, panels and shelves are arranged around the bracket and cables or we size the top for a TV that stands on it.
Will the cables be hidden?
We plan cable routes through the unit from the start, 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.
Who chooses the colour?
You choose it, and we agree it with you before the furniture is finished. Whichever finish you pick, it’s in the colour you have chosen.
What are your TV and media units made from?
Moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood. MDF gives a smooth, stable surface for paint; birch plywood is strong and good for shelves and drawer boxes, and the quote says which is used where.
About our TV and media units in South Wimbledon
We make TV and media units from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood. The finish is spray painted in the workshop or hand painted, in the colour you prefer. We fit across Merton and the rest of London, after a design visit and a written quote. If your home has boxes and consoles on the floor and clutter around the TV, that is what TV and media units are for, made from moisture-resistant MDF and strong birch plywood, with a painted finish.
In a Victorian or Edwardian terrace, the front room normally keeps its chimney breast even where the fireplace has gone. Around South Wimbledon, where a large share of homes date from before 1919, that is a common starting point. TV and media units built into the recesses either side are scribed to the plaster and cut around the skirting.
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 isn’t quite right, tell us before anything is made.
- Location
- South Wimbledon (SW19, SW20, SW17)
- Borough
- Merton
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Made
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Made from
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- When we fit
- Weekdays; Saturdays on request
- Contact
- The contact form
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Do you need TV and media units in South Wimbledon?
The most common reason is a mess of wires. Leads trail from the TV to the boxes, the sockets and the speakers, and no stand ever quite hides them. Built-in units give cables somewhere to go.
These come up often when people first get in touch:
- Cables trailing across the wall
- Games, controllers and remotes everywhere
- Nowhere good for speakers
- Bought furniture that does not suit the room
If your home is as old as some of the listed buildings nearby, like Church of St Winefride, original features like shutters, panelling and fireplaces are worth designing around. For a listed home, fixing into original features can require listed building consent.
What to check before you book
- Real projects you can actually look at
- Whether they measure the room themselves
- Who does any electrics, plumbing or gas work
- Where they’ll park and unload
Boards, parts and paint
Birch plywood
We often use birch plywood for carcasses and drawers. Its layered edge can be painted or shown.
Hand-painted finish
Hand painting lets you see the colour in the room’s own light. Scribed edges are painted along with the rest.
TV and media units for homes in South Wimbledon
About 66% of the homes in the streets around South Wimbledon went up before 1919, and about 15% between 1973 and 1999, going by the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax 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. The South Park Gardens Conservation Area is close by, within about a quarter of a mile of the centre of South Wimbledon. Conservation area controls are mostly concerned with the outside of buildings, and fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission. If in doubt, the council’s planning team can confirm. About 66% of homes in the streets around South Wimbledon were built before 1919, on the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures for 2025. In houses of that age, the chimney breast often becomes the TV wall, with cupboards in the alcoves for set-top boxes and speakers.
If your home is one of the older houses near Holy Trinity, the alcoves beside a chimney breast are the natural place for TV and media units. If your children go to Holy Trinity CofE Primary School or a school nearby, a cupboard for board games and a shelf for reading books can go into the same design.
South Wimbledon is about 1 mile north-west of Wimbledon, part of the London Borough of Merton. Design visits and fitting in South Wimbledon can be on a Saturday, by arrangement. South Wimbledon is one of the places in Merton where we make TV and media units, and the borough has 20 places on our list.
Postcode districts we cover here for TV and media units: SW19, SW20 and SW17. If your home is on a street like Gap Road, Mina Road and York Road, or close by, we can visit to measure up for TV and media units. Close by, we also work in Merton (1 mile south-east), Merton Abbey (1 mile south-east), Summerstown (1 mile north-east), Colliers Wood (1 mile east) and Tooting Bec (1 mile north-east). Other parts of Merton we cover include Morden (2 miles south), Eastfields (2 miles south-east), Copse Hill (2 miles west), Mitcham (2 miles south-east), Hackbridge (2 miles south-east) and West Barnes (2 miles south-west). Being one of the larger places in Merton, South Wimbledon is covered for TV and media units and everything else we make.
Near you in South Wimbledon
We fit furniture in homes around Willington School, Wibbas Down Inn and Wimbledon High School and the streets around them. There is a railway station in South Wimbledon itself: Wimbledon station. A little further out are Wimbledon Museum (0.9 miles west) and St George's Hospital (1 mile north-east). Open spaces near South Wimbledon include Merton Park Green Walks and Henman Hill.
Fitting day, step by step
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 we scribe the edges by hand to follow the wall. How long the fitting itself takes depends on the length of the TV wall and what it needs to hold, and the fitting days are set out in your quote. Terraced streets in London are often lined with parked cars, so it helps to tell us at the measuring visit what’s outside. The van is unloaded quickly, with the sections carried straight in. Saturday fitting can be arranged.
- You get in touch about a built-in TV unit.
- We visit to measure, note the sockets and agree where everything will go. Any new sockets are a job for your electrician.
- We send a quote in writing with the design, materials and finish.
- The unit is made at our workshop, with cable routes and vents built in, from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- We fit it in your home, scribed to the walls and ready for your equipment. A hand-painted finish is done on site, if you chose one.
Before we arrive
- Take anything hanging off the wall we’re fitting to
- Keep pets out of the room and the hallway
- Mention any parking restrictions on your street
Getting a quote
The quote is built from the design visit. 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 book one, use our contact form.
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How we price TV and media units
The price reflects the time and materials the job needs. That depends on:
- Where a van can park, like a permit bay or a bay suspension
- How big the furniture is
- What goes inside: rails, shelves, drawers and dividers
- Whether you choose a spray or hand-painted finish
Your quote is written for your room once we’ve visited and measured. The price depends mainly on the size of the piece, how many doors and drawers it has and what goes inside.
What we need to know
Before the design visit, it helps us to know about:
- Rough sizes, even if they’re only to the nearest few centimetres
- Pictures of styles you like, if you have any
- Radiators, sockets, pipes or meters on or near the wall
- What you’d like to store or use the space for
To get a quote, send us a few details through our contact form and let us know which room you have in mind and roughly what you’d like. We then arrange a design visit to measure and go through the design, and send you a quote in writing afterwards.
Nearby places to South Wimbledon
What else we make in South Wimbledon
When you need someone else
We do not treat damp or carry out building work, and there are a few other limits too:
- Removing a chimney breast or any structural work
- New sockets behind the TV, which need an electrician
- Installing aerials, satellite dishes or broadband
If in doubt, you can drop us a line using the contact form and describe the room. How a job runs, step by step.
Materials and parts
- Ventilated cabinets
- Birch plywood
- Hand-painted finish
- Cable routes
- Spray-painted finish
- Moisture-resistant MDF