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Wall beds in Aldwych, Westminster
Planning wall beds for a home in Aldwych? It starts with a design visit to measure and talk through ideas, then a written quote.
- Somewhere comfortable for guests to sleep
- More floor space in a studio flat
- Hiding the bed when it’s not in use
Need wall beds in Aldwych?
Wall beds in Aldwych: what you get
A home office that doubles as a guest room is a common request. We can design a wall with a fold-down bed and a desk or shelving around it, without the bed taking over. We can allow for cables to the desk, while new sockets are for your electrician. If you are living with a home office that also sleeps guests and a storage wall with a bed inside, wall beds made from MDF made to resist moisture and birch plywood, then spray-painted or hand-painted can solve it.
In houses built before 1919, a floor can drop noticeably from one side of a room to the other, which matters around Aldwych, as a large share of homes there date from before 1919. Pieces stand on a levelled plinth or adjustable feet, so the doors line up and the gaps run straight. The scribe at the wall takes up any bow in the plaster.
A written quote follows the design visit. It sets out the design we have talked through, the materials and the finish, so it is clear what’s included.
- Location
- Aldwych (W1D, WC2H, W1F)
- Borough
- Westminster
- Prices
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- We visit, measure, then quote
- Making
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Boards and paint
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- Working days
- Weekdays; Saturdays on request
- Enquiries
- Our contact form
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
Honest limits
Some parts of a job need another trade, from an electrician to a plumber or a Gas Safe engineer. Here is what to bear in mind:
- Advice on your lease
- Strengthening or rebuilding a wall
- Making good the walls after other work
If you’re not sure what’s possible in your room, you can drop us a line using the contact form and we’ll give you a straight answer. How a job runs, step by step.
What it is made from
- Birch plywood
- Spray-painted finish
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Shelves or a desk alongside
- Fold-down bed mechanism
- Hand-painted finish
Questions from Aldwych
I live in a flat in Aldwych. How will the furniture get up the stairs?
We measure the route in not just the room: the stairs, landings, lift and doors. The furniture is made in sections that fit the stairs and lift, and put together in the room. If your building has rules on lift booking or working hours, or your lease needs consent for alterations, it is worth checking those early.
Can parking be tricky on fitting day in Aldwych?
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. Let us know what parking is near you during the design visit, so we can plan the day around it.
Is it possible to add a desk beside the wall bed?
Yes. We often design the bed as part of a wider storage wall with shelves or a desk beside it. The design keeps clear space in front for the bed to fold down.
Do I need to be at home on fitting day?
We need someone to let us in. It’s good to have someone there at the end to look over the work with us.
Who chooses the colour?
You choose it, and we agree it with you before the furniture is finished. Spray and hand-painted finishes both use the colour you have chosen.
Do I need permission in a conservation area?
Usually not. Fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t 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.
More for homes in Aldwych
Bespoke or off-the-shelf?
A standard bed is simple and needs no mechanism, and that has its appeal. Where the room needs to be more than a bedroom, a wall bed earns its place day after day. Standard units assume square rooms, and period homes seldom have them, so you end up with gaps, wobbles and units that don’t meet the skirting. Fitted furniture is scribed to the wall instead.
We don’t publish set prices, because every piece is designed for one room. Instead, we measure, go through the design and then quote in writing, with the materials and finish set out. To arrange a design visit, drop us a line using the contact form.
What you get with us
- Over 300 projects completed
- Workshop-made and fitted by us
- Saturday work by prior arrangement
- Spray painted or hand painted, in the colour you choose
Take a look at our comparison of bespoke and off-the-shelf or how to compare quotes.
Fitted bedroom furniture in Aldwych
About 48% of the homes in the area around Aldwych went up before 1919, and about 22% since 2000, 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. There are 725 entries on the National Heritage List within half a mile of the centre of Aldwych. Older homes nearby may have original joinery, shutters or panelling worth keeping, and the furniture can be designed around them rather than over them. More than a third of the homes in the area around Aldwych (about 48%) were built before 1919, according to Valuation Office Agency council tax figures (2025). Older houses can have lath-and-plaster internal walls and floors that slope, both of which matter when fixing a wall bed.
For a family home near St Clement Danes CofE Primary School, a mix of drawers and shelves copes with school uniform as well as everything else. For an older house near St Mary le Strand, tall ceilings give wall beds room to reach the cornice. Living in a block of flats near London Charing Cross station? Then the lift, the stair turns and the front door all set the largest piece that can come in.
Aldwych is about 2 miles west of City of Westminster, in the City of Westminster. Aldwych is part of the area we cover, and the process is the same everywhere we work. In Westminster, Aldwych is one of the places we cover.
In W1D, WC2H and W1F, the process is the same as anywhere else in London. If your home is on a street such as Shoe Lane, Drury Lane and New Square, or close by, we can arrange a design visit for wall beds. The A4 and A301 run close to Aldwych, so if your home is on a main road, mention it when you contact us. We also cover the places around Aldwych: Clare Market (1 mile north), Covent Garden (1 mile west), Temple Bar (1 mile east), Temple (1 mile east) and Adelphi (1 mile south-west). We also make wall beds in nearby places like City of Westminster (2 miles west), Victoria (2 miles south-west), Paddington Green (3 miles west), Paddington (2 miles west), Connaught Village (2 miles west) and Belgravia (2 miles south-west).
What’s near Aldwych
Our area takes in the homes around Ye Old White Horse pub, Mercers' School and LSE Shaw Library, among other places. Aldwych’s nearest station is London Charing Cross station, about 0.5 miles south-west of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Montfichet's Tower (0.7 miles east) and St Philip's Hospital (a few minutes’ walk north). Open spaces near Aldwych include St. James's Park Lake and Ludgate Hill.
What it’s made from
Spray-painted finish
The colour is agreed with you before we spray.
Hand-painted finish
If you’d like the bed to match the skirting or doors, hand painting works well.
Fitting day, step by step
At the end, we tidy up and lift the floor protection. Before we leave, we go over the finished piece together and answer any questions. How long the fitting takes depends on the size of the bed and the cabinets around it, and your quote sets out the fitting days. Terraced streets in London are often lined with parked cars, so it helps to tell us at the measuring visit what’s outside. Unloading is kept short, with sections taken straight inside. Saturdays are possible by prior arrangement.
- We start with how the room is used and who’ll sleep there. The bed can sit among shelves or beside a desk.
- We visit to measure up and look at what the wall is made of.
- We send a written quote for the bed cabinet and storage.
- The bed housing and any shelves are made in our workshop.
- We fit it in your home, with the mechanism fixed as its maker specifies. We show you how the bed works before we leave.
Before we arrive
- Have your electrician move any sockets or switches beforehand
- Mention any parking restrictions on your street
- Book any lift and let the concierge or building manager know
Arranging a design visit
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. Afterwards, we send a quote in writing for you to look over. To book one, get in touch through our contact form.
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Flats, conversions and leaseholders
Many London terraces have been converted into flats, which often brings a shared hall and tight turns on the stairs. We plan the size of each section around it, after measuring the route at the measuring visit.
In a flat, the route in matters as much as the room. 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 without a struggle.