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TV and Media Units in West Dulwich
Built-in TV walls and media cabinets, for homes in West Dulwich. We make each piece in our workshop and fit it in your home.
- Boxes and consoles on the floor
- Boxes with no ventilation
- Empty alcoves beside the TV
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FAQs: TV and media units in West Dulwich
Is parking a problem for fitting in West Dulwich?
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 is useful to let us know about parking at the design visit, so we can plan the day around it.
I live near Sydenham Hill station. Is that in your area?
Yes, homes across Southwark and the rest of London are within the area we cover. You can use our contact form to arrange a design visit, and let us know about parking and access at the same time.
Can a TV unit hold speakers?
Speakers work best in open spaces rather than behind doors. A soundbar can sit on a shelf below the screen, and larger speakers suit open shelves at the sides. Tell us the speaker sizes when we visit.
What affects the price of TV and media units?
It depends on the size, the number of doors and drawers, the internal fittings and the finish, along with access and parking. The price comes in a quote in writing after the design visit.
What if my walls and floors are out of level?
That’s normal in older homes, and it is what scribing is for. We scribe the edges to follow the wall and set the furniture level on adjustable feet or a plinth.
Can the TV be wall-mounted with a unit around it?
Where the TV is to be wall-mounted, we plan the unit around the bracket, with a route for the cables. The wall needs to be sound for the bracket.
TV and media units in West Dulwich: what you get
If the TV is wall-mounted, we plan the panels and shelves around the bracket position, with a route for the cables behind the screen. If it stands on the unit, we size the top to suit. We make TV and media units from birch plywood and moisture-resistant MDF with a spray-painted or hand-painted finish, and people most often get in touch about games, controllers and remotes everywhere and space for a soundbar and speakers.
Around West Dulwich, where many homes date from the post-war decades, a living room often has plain walls and simple skirtings, so there are fewer mouldings to cut around. That gives TV and media units a clean line from floor to ceiling. Wall types can vary within one home, so we check each wall and choose fixings to suit it.
The quote comes in writing, so you can read it at your own pace and share it with anyone else involved. It covers the design, materials and finish agreed at the visit.
- Location
- West Dulwich (SE21, SE27, SE19)
- Borough
- Southwark
- Prices
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Where it is made
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Materials and finish
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- When we fit
- Weekdays, and Saturdays by arrangement
- Contact
- Our contact form
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
How we price TV and media units
Prices vary from room to room, for these reasons:
- How square the room is
- Parking near your home
- Stairs, lifts and the route to the room
- Spray painting or hand painting
Because every job is different, the cost is set out in a written quote after the visit. Size, the number of doors and drawers and the internal fittings make the biggest difference to the price.
Before the design visit
Getting some details early makes the visit more useful. Where you can, include:
- How you want to use the space
- Examples of the look you’re after
- The postcode, so we can plan the visit
- Anything fixed to the wall that the furniture needs to work around
To get a quote for TV and media units in West Dulwich, message us from the contact page. Let us know the room and the rough idea, plus any rough measurements. We will arrange a design visit, then send a written quote.
Bespoke TV and media units or ready-made?
Bought units come in the maker’s finishes. We paint ours in the colour you choose, sprayed in the workshop or painted by hand. A ready-made unit pushed back to the wall leaves a gap above the skirting, and that gap catches dust and wastes depth. Fitted furniture is scribed over the skirting or set on its own plinth.
What goes inside matters as much as the outside: rails, shelves, drawers and dividers all add work. We’ll talk through what you need inside at the measuring visit, and the quote follows.
Why choose us
- Work across the whole of London
- Made in our workshop, then fitted in your home
- A spray or hand-painted finish
- We visit, measure and discuss the design before we quote
Read bespoke vs off-the-shelf or what to look for in a quote.
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When is bespoke worth it?
What you pay for with bespoke is mainly 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 usually do that in an older room.
Cost matters, and it’s fair to say so: flat-pack is normally cheaper to buy. Bespoke makes more sense where the room is awkward, the space is valuable or you want the furniture to look built in.
Caring for painted furniture
Painted fitted furniture is easy to look after with a little care. A few things help it stay looking good:
- Plan open spaces for anything controlled by a remote
- Think about whether you’ll upgrade the screen
- Talk to your electrician early about sockets
- Let us know about access early
Dust collects around equipment and vents, so a quick clean now and then helps. Clear vents keep equipment cooler.
Tag each lead at both ends, so changes later are simple.
TV and media units for homes in West Dulwich
In the streets around West Dulwich, the largest groups of homes date from between 1945 and 1972 (about 38%) and before 1919 (about 28%), 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 National Heritage List has 22 entries within half a mile of the centre of West Dulwich. Older homes nearby may have original joinery, shutters or panelling worth keeping, and the furniture can be designed around them rather than over them. About 45% of households in the area around West Dulwich live in purpose-built flats, in the ONS Census 2021 figures. For a flat, TV and media units are made in sections sized for the stairs, the lift and the doors. Building management rules on lifts, deliveries and working hours are worth checking early.
If your home is as old as some of the listed buildings nearby, like Kingswood House, original features like shutters, panelling and fireplaces are worth designing around. If your own home is listed, check with the council before fixing into original features. For families living near Dulwich Wood Primary School, TV and media units can be planned with low cupboards for toys and higher shelves for everything else. Kingswood House, about 0.2 miles south, 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.
West Dulwich is within the London Borough of Southwark, about 2 miles north of East Dulwich. We design and make TV and media units for homes in West Dulwich and across Southwark. Our Southwark coverage includes West Dulwich, along with the rest of the borough.
Postcode districts we cover here for TV and media units: SE21, SE27 and SE19. You’ll find streets here like Berry Lane, Clive Road and Myton Road, and we cover homes on all of them for TV and media units. Main roads around West Dulwich include the A2199. If your home is on one of them, tell us at the measuring visit, as some main roads have strict stopping rules. Neighbouring places we cover for TV and media units include Sydenham Hill (1 mile east), West Norwood (1 mile south-west), Gipsy Hill (1 mile south), Dulwich (1 mile north) and Upper Norwood (1 mile south). We also make TV and media units in nearby places like East Dulwich (2 miles north), Herne Hill (2 miles north), Bermondsey (4 miles north), Elephant and Castle (4 miles north), Bankside (5 miles north) and Southwark (5 miles north).
Around West Dulwich
The streets we cover here include those near The Wood House and Dulwich Prep & Senior. There’s a railway station in West Dulwich itself: Sydenham Hill station. A little further out are St Christopher's Hospice (1.3 miles south-east) and British Vintage Wireless And Television Museum (under half a mile west). Green spaces nearby include Dulwich Upper Wood and Knight's Hill.
From workshop to your room
Period rooms often have skirting boards, picture rails, cornices or coving for the furniture to meet. On fitting day, we cut and scribe the furniture around these details. How long the fitting takes depends on the size of the unit and the cable routes planned into it, and the fitting days are set out in your quote. In a post-war house, the hall and stairs are normally straight and simple, which helps when the sections come in. The way in is still measured, along with the room. The pieces are assembled, levelled and fixed in place.
- You contact us with a short note about the room and the unit you have in mind, 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.
- We send a written quote for the unit.
- Each section is built in our workshop to the measurements we took, with openings for cables and air.
- We install the unit, leaving the cable routes and vents clear. We check the doors and shelves with you before we leave.
Before fitting day
- Take down pictures, mirrors and shelves from the wall
- Let us know if your street is in a controlled parking zone
- Check the building’s rules for trades and lift bookings
Getting a quote
We quote each job for the room it’s going into, after the design visit. Each room is different, so we quote after seeing it, when we’ve measured up and talked through the design. For a quote, drop us a line using the contact form.