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Temple TV and Media Units
Built-in TV walls and media cabinets, designed for your room in Temple. After a design visit and a written quote, it is made at our workshop and fitted in your home.
- Empty alcoves beside the TV
- Nowhere good for speakers
- Standard units leaving gaps
TV and media units designed for your room
TV and media units in Temple
Media equipment warms up as it runs, so equipment can’t simply be shut in a closed cupboard. Ventilation is planned into the design, with open backs, gaps or vented doors where they’re needed. Equipment makers often say how much space their boxes need around them. If you’re living with leads that show from every angle and empty alcoves beside the TV, TV and media units made from birch plywood and moisture-resistant MDF with a spray-painted or hand-painted finish can solve it.
With a large share of homes around Temple built before 1919, lots of living rooms are two reception rooms knocked into one, each with its own chimney breast. That can mean one pair of alcoves for shelving and the other for low cupboards, with the screen on a chimney breast between. Some internal walls in houses of that age are lath and plaster, so fixings are chosen to suit what’s behind the paint.
You get the quote in writing, so there’s time to read it properly. It covers the design, materials and finish agreed at the visit.
- Where
- Temple (SE1, WC2H, WC2B)
- Borough
- City of London
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- Design visit, then a quote in writing
- Where it’s made
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Made from
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Fitting days
- Weekdays (Saturdays if arranged)
- Contact
- The contact form
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Materials and finishes
Doors and drawer fronts
Drawers suit games, controllers and remotes close to hand. They’re painted in the same colour as the rest.
Moisture-resistant MDF
Wide panels around a screen need to stay flat. MDF gives smooth, even surfaces for painting with crisp edges.
Nearby places to Temple
Other services in Temple
Flats, blocks and rented homes
If your building is on a red route or a busy main road, getting the furniture from the van to the door needs planning. TfL runs the red routes, and the stopping rules are strict, so it is worth raising at the design visit.
In a managed block, the building manager or concierge may need notice before we arrive. If there’s a lift, it may need booking, and its size matters when we plan the sections. Mention it when you get in touch.
Is bespoke worth it?
Most stands have a cable hole or two at the back, but cables normally still show somewhere. We plan the cable routes into the design, with access panels for changes later. Alcoves and recesses in period houses are rarely a standard width or depth, so ready-made units rarely fill them properly. Furniture made for the space fills it.
We quote each job for the room it’s going into, after the design visit. A larger piece means more material and more time, so size is the starting point. After that, the number of doors and drawers, the internal fittings and the finish all play a part.
Why us?
- Scribed to uneven walls
- Built from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood
- Saturday visits and fitting by arrangement
- We visit, measure and discuss the design before we quote
Take a look at bespoke vs off-the-shelf and how to compare quotes.
Questions from Temple
Is parking a problem for fitting in Temple?
It can be: much of inner London is covered by controlled parking zones. Depending on the street, a visitor permit, a paid bay or a bay suspension through the council may be needed, and suspensions often need notice. It’s useful to tell us about parking during the design visit. The whole City of London is also inside the Congestion Charge zone, and the ULEZ covers every London borough.
Can you fit TV and media units to the uneven walls of an older house in Temple?
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.
How long will the fitting take?
It depends on the length of the TV wall and what it needs to hold, and the fitting days are set out in your quote. The making happens in our workshop, so the time in your home is mostly fitting and finishing.
What finishes do you offer?
There are two choices: spray painting, done in the workshop for a smooth, even finish, or hand painting, which can be done on site. The finish is agreed in your quote.
Do you work outside London?
No. Our work is in London only: all 32 boroughs and the City of London.
Which boards do you build with?
Moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood. MDF is stable and takes paint well, while birch plywood is strong and holds screws well.
From workshop to your room
Getting everything level comes first. Where the floor slopes, we bring the furniture up to level on adjustable feet or a plinth, and that keeps the doors and shelves true. Only then is it fixed to the wall, with fixings chosen to suit brick, lath and plaster or plasterboard. Terraced streets in London are often lined with parked cars, so details of permits, bays and any loading restrictions help. Unloading is kept short, with sections taken straight inside. Saturday fitting can be arranged.
- You send us a few details about the TV, the boxes and the speakers you use, including the size of the screen.
- At the design visit, we measure up and plan the screen space, cable routes and ventilation with you. New sockets or wiring are for your electrician, so it is useful to have them in mind early.
- Your quote follows, with the design, materials and finish set out.
- Each section is built in our workshop to the measurements we took, using moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- We install the unit, leaving the cable routes and vents clear.
How to prepare
- Clear the area where the furniture is going
- Let us know about parking near your home
- Let us know where the boiler and meters are
Starting with a design visit
A quote begins with a few details from you: the room, rough sizes and some photos if you have 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.
Related advice
Is it time for TV and media units?
Some want the TV to sit better in a period room. Building it into the alcoves or around the chimney breast makes it part of the room, rather than the focus of it.
These come up often when people first get in touch:
- Somewhere to keep games tidy
- Space for a soundbar and speakers
- Wasted space around the screen
- Bought furniture that doesn’t suit the room
The wider area includes historic houses like Dr Johnson's House, about 0.2 miles north-east. 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.
What to check before you book
- Is it spray painted or hand painted?
- How they deal with uneven walls and floors
- Will other trades be needed, and who arranges them?
- How doors and drawers are fitted
TV and media units for homes in Temple
Homes built before 1919 make up about 48% of the housing in the neighbourhood around Temple, with about 22% built since 2000, according to Valuation Office Agency council tax figures (2025). We take that into account at the measuring visit, since older and newer walls take different fixings. Temple is partly covered by the Temples Conservation Area, according to Historic England’s records. Conservation area controls are largely about how buildings look from outside, and fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission. If you want to be certain, ask the council’s planning team. Controlled parking zones cover much of inner London, and each borough runs its own. For fitting in Temple, a van usually needs a visitor permit, a paid bay or a bay suspension, which the council arranges, often with notice. Let us know about parking near your home during the design visit.
Near listed buildings like Middle Temple Hall, under half a mile north-west of the centre of Temple, older homes may keep original joinery that TV and media units can be designed around. For a listed home, fixing into original features can need listed building consent. Living in a block of flats near London Blackfriars station? Then the route in is measured not just the room, and the sections are sized to fit it.
Temple is in the City of London, about 1 mile east of City of London. We cover Temple as part of our work across the City of London, and the process is the same everywhere we work. Temple is one of 8 places on our list for the City of London.
We make TV and media units across the SE1, WC2H and WC2B postcode area. If your home is on a street like Shoe Lane, Drury Lane and New Square, or close by, we can arrange a design visit for TV and media units. Main roads around Temple include the A4 and A40, and we plan where the van can stop before fitting day. We also cover the places around Temple: Temple Bar (1 mile north), Blackfriars (1 mile east), Aldwych (1 mile west), Clare Market (1 mile north-west) and Covent Garden (1 mile west).
Landmarks near Temple
The streets we cover here include those near British Library of Political and Economic Science, Mercers' School and St Mary-at-Hill and the streets around them. You will also find The Devereux pub (a few minutes’ walk north-west) and London Nautical School (within half a mile south). There’s a railway station in Temple itself: London Blackfriars station. Well-known places in the area include St Philip's Hospital (less than half a mile north-west) and Twinings Museum (a few minutes’ walk north-west). Green spaces nearby include St. James's Park Lake and Ludgate Hill.