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Wall Beds in Charlton
We make wall beds for homes in Charlton, designed around the room you have. Your wall bed is designed at a visit to your home and made at our workshop.
- A guest room that sits empty most of the time
- Hiding the bed when it is not in use
- A storage wall with a bed inside
Wall beds designed for your room
Wall beds in Charlton
A wall bed, sometimes called a Murphy bed, lifts up into a cabinet during the day and is lowered again at night. It means a room can work as more than a bedroom, so a guest room can double as a study or playroom. We make the cabinet for your room and finish it to match. We make wall beds from moisture-resistant MDF and strong birch plywood, with a painted finish, and people most often get in touch about shelves or a desk around the bed and a bed that fills a little-used room.
Across London, neighbouring streets can be decades apart in age, so a bedroom could have solid brick walls, lath and plaster, blockwork or plasterboard. Each wall is checked at the measuring visit before fixings are chosen. With a chimney breast, the alcoves are the obvious place; without one, a full wall normally is.
Once you have read the quote and decided to go ahead, the furniture is made at our workshop. The quote sets out the agreed design, materials and finish, so you can check every detail beforehand.
- Location
- Charlton (SE7, SE18)
- Area
- Greenwich
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Where it’s made
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Boards and paint
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Working days
- Weekdays, and Saturdays by arrangement
- Enquiries
- Send us a message
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
DIY, flat-pack or bespoke
It’s worth being honest about cost: off-the-shelf furniture usually costs less up front. Bespoke makes more sense where the room is awkward, the space is valuable or you want the furniture to look built in.
Where bespoke earns its keep is in rooms that are not square. Older London rooms tend to have leaning walls, sloping floors and alcoves of different widths, and standard units leave gaps.
Neighbourhoods near Charlton
What else we make in Charlton
Bespoke or off-the-shelf?
A normal bed has nothing to fix to the wall, which is a fair point in its favour. But if the room has other jobs to do, a wall bed lets it do them day after day. Recesses, sloping ceilings and tricky corners are where ready-made furniture struggles most, and most homes have one somewhere. Fitted furniture is designed around them.
Every piece is quoted for your room after the design visit. A larger piece means more material and more time, so size comes first. After that, the number of doors and drawers, the internal fittings and the finish all play a part.
Why work with us in Charlton
- Scribed to uneven walls
- Work across the whole of London
- A spray or hand-painted finish
- Made for your room, not a standard size
Caring for painted furniture
Because fitted furniture stays put, a little upkeep goes a long way. A few pointers help:
- Allow space for pillows and duvets
- Treat new paintwork gently at first
- Keep children away while the bed moves
- Decide who the bed is mainly for
Whether bedding can stay on the bed when it folds up depends on the mechanism. We can build a cupboard beside the bed for extra bedding.
Check how much floor there is in front of the cabinet. You need clear space for the bed to come down, so plan where furniture will sit.
Your questions about wall beds in Charlton
Do I need permission for fitted furniture in a conservation area?
Usually not: conservation area rules mainly cover the outside of buildings, and fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission. Listed buildings are different, as works inside that affect their character may need listed building consent from the council. The council’s planning or conservation team can tell you if in doubt.
Will parking be an issue for fitting furniture in Charlton?
It can be, as controlled parking zones cover much of inner London. 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 helps to let us know about parking at the design visit, so we can plan the day around it.
Can you fit furniture to uneven walls?
Walls and floors that aren’t true are part of the job in older homes. The furniture is scribed to follow the walls and levelled on feet or a plinth, so there are no gaps at the sides.
What space does a fold-down bed take up?
It depends on the bed size and the mechanism. We measure up and make sure the bed has room to fold down.
Do you work outside London?
No. We only take on work in London, across all the boroughs and the City of London.
How is the furniture painted?
There are two options: a spray finish from the workshop, which is smooth and even, or hand painting, which can be done in your home. Your quote sets out which you’ve chosen.
Fitted bedroom furniture in Charlton
About 34% of the homes in the neighbourhood around Charlton went up before 1919, and about 29% between 1945 and 1972, in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. We take that into account during the design visit, since older and newer walls take different fixings. Entries on the National Heritage List near the centre of Charlton include Charlton House (Grade I), about 0.5 miles south, and Stable Buildings to South West of Charlton House (Grade I), about 0.5 miles south. Where a home is listed, listed building consent can be needed for inside works that affect its character, like fixing into original panelling. Ask the council’s conservation officer before anything is fixed. Purpose-built flats are home to about 43% of households in the neighbourhood around Charlton, the 2021 Census shows. For a flat, wall beds 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 you live near Charlton Park, a bedroom facing the green is best kept light, with the furniture on the side walls. Queen's House, about 1.9 miles west, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. For a period home anywhere nearby, solid external walls can be cold, so ventilation behind wall beds is part of the design. If your children go to Thorntree Primary School or a school nearby, the inside of wall beds can be laid out with adjustable shelves, so the space keeps up as children grow.
Charlton is about 2 miles east of Plumstead, within the Royal Borough of Greenwich. We design and make wall beds for homes in Charlton, as part of our work in every London borough. Charlton is one of the places in Greenwich where we make wall beds, and the borough has 18 places on our list.
Every address in SE7 and SE18 is within our area for wall beds, from the main roads to the quieter streets. We cover homes on streets like Floyd Road, Guild Road and Priolo Road, along with the roads around them, for wall beds and any of our other fitted furniture. We also cover New Charlton (1 mile north-west), Westcombe Park (1 mile west), Woolwich (1 mile east), Vanbrugh Park Estate (1 mile south-west) and Kidbrooke (2 miles south). We also make wall beds in nearby places such as Plumstead (2 miles east), Greenwich (2 miles west), Eltham (3 miles south), Well Hall (2 miles south), Coldharbour (4 miles south) and New Eltham (4 miles south).
Near you in Charlton
Around Charlton, we cover homes near The Victoria pub and Wildwood Montessori School and the streets around them. Charlton has its own railway station: Charlton station. Well-known places in the area include Greenwich Castle (1.9 miles west) and Charlton Athletic Museum (within half a mile south-west). Not far away are Gilbert's Pit.
What affects the cost of wall beds
The price reflects the time and materials the job needs. That depends on:
- Where a van can park, such as a permit bay or a bay suspension
- Stairs, lifts and the route to the room
- How square the room is
- The number of doors and drawers
In London, parking can affect the price. The boroughs run controlled parking zones across much of the city, so a van may need a visitor permit, a paid bay or a bay suspension. Tell us about parking at the design visit, so we can plan for it.
What we need to know
You don’t need exact measurements or a plan. Just send what you can:
- Anything in the way, like radiators, sockets, switches, a boiler or meters
- What you’d like to store or use the space for
- The postcode, so we can plan the visit
- A few photos of the space, taken from the doorway and from each corner
To make a start, message us from the contact page and tell us a little about the room. From there, we arrange a design visit to measure up and talk through your ideas, and a written quote follows.
How fitting day works
Once the main sections are fixed in place, any doors go on and any drawers or lids are fitted. Each one is adjusted until the gaps are even and it closes cleanly. How long fitting takes depends on the size of the bed and the cabinets around it, and the fitting days are agreed in your quote. On fitting day, each piece is fitted to the room’s own walls, with scribing where they wander and packing where floors dip. Spray-painted pieces arrive finished; hand-painted ones can be finished on site.
- You get in touch and let us know about the room and the wall where the bed could go.
- We visit to measure up, look at the wall and floor and make sure there is clear space in front to lower the bed.
- A written quote follows, covering the cabinet, the materials and the finish.
- We build the cabinet in our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- We fit the cabinet in your home and fix the mechanism as its maker specifies.
- We go through the bed with you; the cabinet has the spray-painted or hand-painted finish you chose.
Before fitting day
- Keep pets in another room while we work
- Book any lift and let the concierge or building manager know
- Have your electrician move any sockets or switches beforehand
Ask for a quote
If you already have something in mind, tell us; if you don’t, that is fine, and we can work it out together. The design is talked through at the visit, once we have measured, and the written quote then sets it out. To start, use our contact form.