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Temple Fortune TV and Media Units
Built-in TV walls and media cabinets, designed for your room in Temple Fortune. After a design visit and a written quote, it’s built in our workshop and fitted in your home.
- Games, controllers and remotes everywhere
- Boxes with no ventilation
- Leads that show from every angle
Need TV and media units in Temple Fortune?
TV and media units in Temple Fortune: what you get
Media equipment warms up as it runs, so equipment cannot simply be shut in a closed cupboard. We plan ventilation into the unit, with open backs, gaps or vented doors where they’re needed. Equipment makers often say how much space their boxes need around them. We make TV and media units from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, finished by spray or by hand, and people most often get in touch about nowhere good for speakers and games, controllers and remotes everywhere.
In streets where so much of the housing went up before 1919, as it did around Temple Fortune, the living room is often two rooms knocked through, with a chimney breast in each half. That can mean one pair of alcoves for shelving and the other for low cupboards, with the screen on a chimney breast between. Older internal walls can be lath and plaster rather than brick, which changes how shelving is fixed.
Once you have read the quote and decided to go ahead, the furniture is built in our workshop. The quote sets out the agreed design, materials and finish, so you can check every detail beforehand.
- Location
- Temple Fortune (NW11, NW4, N3)
- Borough
- Barnet
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Where it’s made
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Boards and paint
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Working days
- Weekdays (Saturdays if arranged)
- Enquiries
- Our contact form
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
TV and media units in Temple Fortune: local notes
About 52% of the homes in the neighbourhood around Temple Fortune went up before 1919, and about 30% 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. Near the centre of Temple Fortune, Historic England’s list includes Church of St Jude (Grade I), less than half a mile east, and The Institute (The Henrietta Barnett School) (Grade II*), less than half a mile east. For a listed home, internal works that affect its character may need listed building consent from the council, for instance removing or fixing into original panelling. The council’s conservation officer is the person to ask before work starts. Around Temple Fortune, about 52% of homes date from before 1919, well above the figure for Barnet as a whole, about 20%, according to Valuation Office Agency council tax figures (2025). That makes period details like uneven walls, alcoves and picture rails more likely to shape the design.
If your home is one of the older houses near Saint Mary and Archangel Michael Church, the alcoves beside a chimney breast are the natural place for TV and media units. If you live near Princes Park, a room that looks out on trees deserves a design that leaves the window alone. Heath Hall, about 1.3 miles east, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. If your own home is a period one, walls that bow and floors that slope are why TV and media units are scribed to fit rather than pushed into place.
Temple Fortune is about 1 mile north-east of Finchley, part of the London Borough of Barnet. Our work covers every London borough and the City of London, Temple Fortune included. Our Barnet coverage includes Temple Fortune, along with the rest of the borough.
In NW11, NW4 and N3, the process is the same as anywhere else in London. We cover homes on streets such as Hoop Lane, Bridge Lane and Limes Avenue, for TV and media units and any of our other fitted furniture. The A598 run close to Temple Fortune; on busy main roads, unloading TV and media units takes a little planning. Neighbouring places we cover for TV and media units include Golders Green (1 mile south), Hampstead Garden Suburb (1 mile east), East Finchley (1 mile north-east), North End (1 mile south-east) and Childs Hill (1 mile south). Across the rest of Barnet, our area takes in Barnet (4 miles north), Burnt Oak (3 miles north-west), Whetstone (3 miles north), Edgware (4 miles north-west), Friern Barnet (3 miles north-east) and Southgate (4 miles north-east).
Near you in Temple Fortune
Around Temple Fortune, we cover homes near The Henrietta Barnett School and The King Alfred School and the streets around them. For rail, the closest station is Brent Cross West station, about 1.5 miles south-west of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include Jewish Museum - Finchley (1 mile north-east) and Brent Cross Shopping Centre (1.1 miles west). Not far away are Turner's Wood.
Your questions about TV and media units in Temple Fortune
Can you fit TV and media units to the uneven walls of an older house in Temple Fortune?
Yes, that is 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. Fixings are chosen for the wall, whether solid brick or lath and plaster.
Can you fit furniture in a home close to Brent Cross West station?
Yes. We cover all of Barnet and the rest of London. You can drop us a line using the contact form to arrange a design visit.
Is an outside wall a problem for fitted furniture?
It can be done with some care: ventilation behind and inside the furniture helps avoid condensation and mould. Damp treatment is not something we do, so any damp needs sorting first.
How do I get started?
Just use our contact form. Rough sizes and a few pictures help, and then we arrange a visit to measure and discuss the design.
Do I need planning permission for fitted furniture?
Normally not. Fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission, even in a conservation area. If the building is listed, works affecting its character may need listed building consent, so ask the council’s conservation officer.
Do TV units need ventilation?
Ventilation is designed in wherever equipment sits. Each box should have its own space, and it’s worth checking the maker’s guidance on clearances.
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What else we make in Temple Fortune
Bespoke TV and media units or ready-made?
Standard units come in fixed sizes. Ours are scribed to the walls and can run up to the ceiling. Tall ceilings in older homes leave a band of empty wall above standard furniture, and that space collects dust instead of storage. Built-in pieces can run to the cornice or the picture rail.
The inside of the furniture affects the price as well: drawers take more making than shelves, and each rail, divider or pull-out adds to the work. At the design visit, we work out what you need inside, and the quote follows.
What you get with us
- Spray painted or hand painted, in the colour you choose
- Every London borough and the City of London covered
- Workshop-made and fitted by us
- Saturdays by arrangement
See how bespoke compares with ready-made and what a quote should include.
How it’s made
Moisture-resistant MDF
Wide panels around a screen need to stay flat. MDF gives a smooth surface for a painted finish with crisp edges.
Doors and drawer fronts
Some equipment needs line of sight for its remote.
How fitting day works
However carefully a piece is made in the workshop, it still has to meet the room, and fitting day is where that happens. Walls in older homes are rarely flat or square, so we scribe the edges by hand to follow the wall. How long the fitting itself 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. If your hall still has its original tiles or boards, they’re covered before any carrying starts. Fixings into older walls are made carefully, as lath and plaster can crack if treated roughly. Decorating around the furniture afterwards is for your decorator.
- You get in touch about a built-in TV unit, and where the sockets are now.
- At the design visit, we measure the wall and plan the screen space, cable routes and ventilation with you.
- You receive a quote setting out the layout and the paint finish.
- We build the unit in our workshop, with routes and ventilation planned in.
- We fit it in your home, scribed to the walls and ready for your equipment.
How to prepare
- Check the building’s rules for trades and lift bookings
- Clear the area where the furniture is going
- Let us know about any meters, fuse boards or boilers in the area
Starting with a design visit
The design visit is where every quote starts. We measure the room properly, check how the walls and floors run and go through the design with you. Afterwards, we send a quote in writing for you to look over. To book one, tell us about the room on our contact form.
Advice
What we do not do
It is worth being clear about where our work stops:
- Configuring the TV and sound system
- Aerial, satellite or broadband installation
- Plastering or decorating around the unit
If you are not sure what’s possible in your room, you can tell us about the room on our contact form and we will give you a straight answer. Our process from visit to fitting.
What it is made from
- Spray-painted finish
- Cable routes
- Ventilated cabinets
- Birch plywood
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Hand-painted finish
Flats, conversions and lettings
If you live in a flat, getting the furniture in is planned from the start. At the design visit, we measure the stairs, the landings, any lift and the doors, so the furniture can be made in sections that fit through.
In a managed block, the building manager or concierge may need notice before we arrive. Lifts sometimes need to be booked, and the lift size helps decide how big each section can be. Let us know about it when you contact us.