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Broom Hill Wall Beds
Wall beds in Broom Hill: fold-down wall beds built into fitted cabinets. Every piece is made in our workshop and fitted in your home.
- Storage built around a fold-down bed
- A playroom that can sleep visitors
- A bed that looks like cupboards by day
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About our wall beds in Broom Hill
A home office that doubles as a guest room is a common request. A wall bed with a desk or shelves beside it lets the room do both, without the bed taking over. Cable routes for the desk can be planned in, while new sockets are for your electrician. If your home has a studio that works by day and night and storage built around a fold-down bed, wall beds made from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, finished by spray or by hand can solve it.
With interwar houses or semis a big part of the housing around Broom Hill, bedrooms are often simple shapes, sometimes with a chimney breast or a bay. Fitted furniture can run along the longest wall, with the inside arranged to suit you. Where a loft conversion has been added, the sloping ceiling can take storage too.
The written quote puts the design visit in writing: the layout, what goes inside, the materials used and the finish. If something is not quite right, tell us before anything is made.
- Location
- Broom Hill (BR6, BR5)
- Borough
- Bromley
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- Design visit, then a written quote
- Where it is made
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Made from
- MDF and birch plywood, painted
- Working days
- Weekdays, and Saturdays by arrangement
- Get in touch
- The contact form
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
Bedroom storage in Broom Hill
In the neighbourhood around Broom Hill, the largest groups of homes date from between 1919 and 1939 (about 39%) and between 1945 and 1972 (about 31%), based on the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax data. It is a good starting point, though every room is still measured, as two homes of the same age rarely match. Entries on the National Heritage List near the centre of Broom Hill include Church of All Saints (Grade II*), under half a mile south-east, and Perry Hall Farmhouse (Grade II), under half a mile north-west. Works inside a listed home that affect its character, for instance removing original joinery or fixing into it, may need listed building consent from the council. The council’s conservation officer is the person to ask before work starts. About 39% of homes in the streets around Broom Hill date from between 1919 and 1939, based on the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax data. Many interwar houses have a small room over the stairs, a good spot for fitted furniture built around the bulkhead.
Living in a block of flats near Orpington station? Then it helps to book the lift and tell the concierge before fitting day. For a family home near Perry Hall Primary School, hanging rails set low at first can be raised later, as children get taller.
Broom Hill is about 1 mile north-east of Orpington, in the London Borough of Bromley. Wherever you are in Broom Hill, the process is the same: we visit and measure, send a written quote, make the furniture in our workshop and fit it. Across Bromley, we cover Broom Hill, along with the rest of the borough.
Postcode districts we cover here for wall beds: BR6 and BR5. You’ll find streets here like New Road, Irene Road and Sandy Lane, and we cover homes on all of them for wall beds. Neighbouring places we cover for wall beds include Crofton (1 mile south-west), Petts Wood (1 mile north-west), Locksbottom (2 miles west), Farnborough (2 miles south-west) and Green Street Green (2 miles south). Across the rest of Bromley, our area takes in Bromley (4 miles west), Beckenham (6 miles west), Chislehurst (3 miles north-west), Penge (7 miles west), Anerley (8 miles west) and Crystal Palace (8 miles west).
What’s near Broom Hill
The streets we cover here include those near The Cricketers pub, The Priory School and Harris Academy Orpington. The nearest railway station is Orpington station, roughly 0.6 miles south-west of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Orpington Hospital (1.3 miles south) and London Borough of Bromley Museum (less than half a mile south-east).
The problems wall beds solve
In a studio or a small flat, every bit of floor counts. With the bed away, the main room is a living space again until bedtime.
These come up often when people first get in touch:
- A storage wall with a bed inside
- A playroom that can sleep visitors
- Hiding the bed when it is not in use
- A studio that works by day and night
Close to Jubilee Country Park? Wall beds are usually planned on the walls away from the window, so the light and the view stay.
Before you hire any carpenter
- Whether the finish is set out in the quote
- Whether the route into your home has been checked
- How they handle walls that are not straight
- A quote in writing that sets out the job
How fitting works for wall beds
You won’t need to do much on the day. We need someone to let us in at the start, and it is useful to have the room cleared beforehand, as we’ll have talked about at the measuring visit. After that, it is over to us: the floors are covered, the sections come in and the fitting begins. How long fitting takes depends on the size of the bed and the cabinets around it, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. In a 1930s house with a converted loft, the stairs to the loft room are often steeper than the main flight, so pieces for a loft room are sized for the narrowest point. Elsewhere in the house, the route is typically more generous. The pieces are joined and fixed once in place.
- You get in touch and let us know about the room and how often the bed is used.
- At the design visit we measure the room, look at the wall and discuss the design. We also check there is clear space in front to lower the bed.
- We send a quote setting out the design, materials and finish, for you to look over.
- The cabinets are built in our workshop, from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- We fit it in your home, with the mechanism fixed as its maker specifies. The finish is sprayed in our workshop or painted by hand on site.
Preparing the room
- Get any new sockets or wiring done by your electrician before fitting day
- Clear the area where the furniture is going
- Clear the hallway and stairs so the sections can come through
Starting with a design visit
The quote is built from the design visit. We measure the room properly, check how the walls and floors run and discuss the design with you. A quote in writing follows the visit, so you can take your time with it. To book one, send us a few details through our contact form.
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Caring for painted furniture
The finish lasts best with a little care, whether it was spray painted or hand painted. Here are our suggestions:
- Think about how often the bed will be used
- Leaseholders: check your lease first
- Mention if the wall is a stud wall
- Plan where chairs and desks will sit
The paint needs time to cure fully after fitting. Treat the cabinet gently at first, and clean the cabinet with a soft, damp cloth.
Leasehold flats can have rules on alterations, so check your lease early. Your lease is something to check with whoever manages the building.
Your questions about wall beds in Broom Hill
Can parking be tricky on fitting day in Broom Hill?
It can be, depending on whether your street is in a controlled parking zone. A van may need a visitor permit, a pay-and-display bay or a suspended bay, which the council arranges, often with notice. Let us know what parking is near you at the design visit, so we can plan the day around it.
Is Broom Hill in the area you cover for wall beds?
Yes. We cover all of Bromley and the rest of London, and Broom Hill is part of that. We start with a design visit to measure the room and talk through what you need, followed by a quote.
Can I send pictures ahead of the visit?
Yes, they help. Photos of the whole wall or room, including the floor and ceiling, give us a good idea of the space. To send them, message us from the contact page.
How do you get the furniture up the stairs?
The furniture is built in sections, each one sized to fit the way in. That is why we measure the stairs, lift and doorways at the measuring visit.
Do you move sockets or add lighting?
No. We are carpenters, so electrical work is for your electrician. We can allow for cable routes in the design, and any new sockets are best done before fitting day.
Is the furniture spray painted or hand painted?
There are two ways to finish it: by spray or by hand. A spray finish is smooth and even, while a hand-painted one is easy to touch up later.
What it is made from
Hand-painted finish
A hand-painted finish can be done on site after fitting. Marks are easy to touch in.
Birch plywood
Shelves beside a wall bed often carry books, and birch plywood helps them resist sagging.
Bespoke or off-the-shelf?
A confident DIYer can manage simple shelves or a standard wardrobe in a square room. Sloping ceilings, uneven floors and lath-and-plaster walls make it harder, where scribing and fixings that suit the wall are important.
Flat-pack and off-the-shelf furniture has its place. If the walls are straight and the space suits standard sizes, it often does the job, and it’s quick to buy.