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Wall Beds in Cannon Hill
In Cannon Hill, we design wall beds around the room you actually have. We design your wall bed at a visit to your home, make it in our workshop and fit it.
- Room for a desk and a guest bed
- More floor space in a studio flat
- A bed that fills a little-used room
Wall beds designed for your room
Flats, blocks and rented homes
Mansion blocks and purpose-built blocks often have house rules about lifts, entry systems and when trades can come in. Tell us about them during the design visit, so fitting day is planned around them.
Landlords furnishing a let use fitted furniture too. The materials are the same as for any home: moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
How we make wall beds for Cannon Hill
Safety starts with the fixing: the mechanism is fixed as its maker specifies, into a wall or floor that’s sound enough to hold it. At the design visit we look at the wall it will go on, because the fixing has to suit what the wall is made of. If you are living with a guest room that sits empty most of the time and storage built around a fold-down bed, that’s what wall beds are for, made from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, finished by spray or by hand.
If you live in one of the interwar houses or semis around Cannon Hill, the third bedroom is often small, sitting over the stairs. Small rooms like that suit wall beds, whether the room is a guest room, a dressing room or a study. Every wall is measured and checked, even in a house that looks square.
If the job needs another trade, such as an electrician or a plumber, we will tell you. Our quote covers the carpentry: the design, the materials and the finish.
- Where
- Cannon Hill (SW20, SM4, KT3)
- Borough
- Merton
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Making
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Materials and finish
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- When we fit
- Weekdays, and Saturdays by prior arrangement
- Contact
- The contact form
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Caring for painted furniture
Because fitted furniture stays put, a little upkeep goes a long way. A few pointers help:
- Keep children away while the bed moves
- Follow the mechanism maker’s mattress guidance
- Allow space for pillows and duvets
- Think about how often the bed will be used
Should the bed start to move differently, stop and let us know. Do not try to adjust the mechanism yourself unless its maker says you can.
Check how the cabinet will get into the room. We make the cabinet in sections that fit up the stairs and through the doors, so it helps to know about tight turns.
Questions from Cannon Hill
Is parking a problem for fitting in Cannon Hill?
It depends on the street, as many London boroughs run controlled parking zones. 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.
Is Cannon Hill in the area you cover for wall beds?
Yes. Cannon Hill is one of the places we work, along with the rest of Merton and London. To get started, you can drop us a line using the contact form with some details.
How are wall beds priced?
We quote each job for the room it’s going into, after the design visit. The bed size, the cabinet and any storage around it all make a difference. To arrange a design visit, message us from the contact page.
Can a wall bed have storage around it?
Yes. Shelves, cupboards or a desk can go around the bed cabinet, so the whole wall is useful. The design keeps clear space in front for the bed to fold down.
What do you do at the measuring visit?
We take full measurements, look at the walls and floors and work through the design together. Access and parking are worth talking about too.
Can you fit furniture to uneven walls?
Walls and floors that aren’t true are part of the job in older homes. We trim the edges to follow the wall and level the base.
From workshop to your room
On the morning of the fitting, the first job is covering the floors and protecting the way in from the front door. The sections made at our workshop come in next, one at a time. The time the fitting takes depends on the bed, the cabinets and the wall it fixes to, and your quote sets out the fitting days. It helps to clear the room and the route before we arrive. Fitting day starts with protecting the floors and setting out the pieces. Each piece is levelled, scribed where the wall wanders and fixed to suit the wall.
- It starts with a short note from you.
- At the design visit we agree the layout and the colour.
- A quote in writing follows.
- The cabinets are made at our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood; a spray finish is applied there for a smooth, even surface.
- The wall bed is fitted, and any hand painting is done on site. New paint needs gentle use while it cures.
Before we arrive
- Empty the space we’ll be working in
- If you live in a block, book the lift and tell the building manager
- Let us know if your street is in a controlled parking zone
Starting with a design visit
To get a quote, fill in our short enquiry form and tell us a little about the room. We then arrange a design visit to measure and discuss the design, and a written quote follows.
Related advice
Bedrooms in Cannon Hill: local notes
The biggest shares of homes in the area around Cannon Hill were built between 1919 and 1939 (about 61%) and before 1919 (about 16%), based on the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax data. We take that into account at the design visit, since older and newer walls take different fixings. 9 conservation areas have at least part of their area less than a mile from the middle of Cannon Hill. Historic England says England has around 10,000, and the controls mainly cover the outside of buildings. Terraced houses are home to about 39% of households in the area around Cannon Hill, in the ONS Census 2021 figures. Terraced houses often have a narrow back bedroom and alcoves either side of a chimney breast, which suit fitted furniture.
If your home is one of the older houses near St James Merton, tall ceilings give wall beds room to reach the cornice. Close to Cannon Hill Common? Morning light matters, so tall pieces go where they won’t shade the window.
Cannon Hill is about 2 miles north of Wimbledon, part of the London Borough of Merton. We cover Cannon Hill as part of our work across Merton, and the process is the same everywhere we work. Cannon Hill is one of the places in Merton where we make wall beds.
We cover every part of the SW20, SM4 and KT3 postcode area for wall beds. If your home is on a street such as Aylward Road, Camborne Road and Botsford Road, or close by, we can arrange a design visit for wall beds. Neighbouring places we cover for wall beds include Bushey Mead (1 mile north-west), Raynes Park (1 mile west), Wimbledon Chase (1 mile north), West Barnes (1 mile west) and Merton Park (1 mile north-east). Other parts of Merton we cover include Wimbledon (2 miles north), Colliers Wood (2 miles north-east), Eastfields (3 miles east), South Wimbledon (2 miles north-east), Merton Abbey (2 miles north-east) and Crooked Billet (2 miles north).
Near you in Cannon Hill
The streets we cover here include those near The Edward Rayne pub, Merton College and Harris Academy Wimbledon, among other places. For rail, the closest station is South Merton station, roughly 0.5 miles north-east of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Wimbledon Museum (1.6 miles north) and St. Anthony's Hospital (1.5 miles south). Open spaces near Cannon Hill include Cherry Wood.
Nearby places to Cannon Hill
Also in Cannon Hill
Is bespoke worth it?
A standard bed is simple and needs no mechanism, and that has its appeal. But if the room has other jobs to do, a wall bed lets it do them every day. In an extended or opened-up house, old and new walls often meet slightly out of line, and straight-sided ready-made units make that obvious. Built-in pieces are scribed to take up the difference.
Access to the room makes a difference too. Several flights of stairs, a small lift or a narrow hall can mean smaller sections and more carrying, and that’s part of the price. We quote each job for the room it’s going into, after the design visit.
What you get with us
- Work across the whole of London
- Made for your room, not a standard size
- Saturday visits and fitting by prior arrangement
- Fitted tight to walls that aren’t straight
Take a look at how bespoke compares with ready-made and what to look for in a quote.
What prompts wall beds in Cannon Hill
Sofa beds aren’t always comfortable for regular use. With a wall bed, guests sleep on a real mattress, on a proper frame.
These come up often when people first get in touch:
- A living room with a bed that folds away
- Somewhere comfortable for guests to sleep
- A hobby room with a bed for guests
- A guest room that sits empty most of the time
Living in a block of flats near South Merton station? Then check any building rules on lifts and working hours early, and the sections will be sized for the way in.
Before you hire any carpenter
- Whether the quote follows a visit to your home
- Are the boards named, such as MDF or plywood?
- Whether they can show you real projects they’ve done
- Have they measured the stairs, lift and doorways?