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Wall beds in Coldharbour, Greenwich
Wall beds for your home in Coldharbour: fold-down wall beds built into fitted cabinets. We visit to measure and talk through the design, make the furniture in our workshop and fit it.
- A real mattress for visitors
- A home office that also sleeps guests
- Storage built around a fold-down bed
Ask about wall beds in Coldharbour
Tips worth knowing
People planning wall beds often ask about these. They’re worth knowing whatever the room:
- Check mattress size and weight limits
- Consider how many people will sleep in it
- Plan a cupboard for spare bedding
- Let us know about the wall’s construction
Should the bed start to move differently, stop and let us know. The mechanism should only be adjusted as its maker allows.
Think about who will sleep in the bed and how often. That helps decide its size and the mechanism as well as the storage around it.
Wall beds in Coldharbour
Many people now work from home in a room that also has to sleep guests. A wall bed with a desk or shelves beside it lets the room do both, so the bed doesn’t dominate the working day. We can allow for cables to the desk, while new sockets are for your electrician. Typical reasons to get in touch are a hobby room with a bed for guests and somewhere comfortable for guests to sleep, and the answer is built in our workshop from birch ply and moisture-resistant MDF, painted by hand or sprayed.
A bedroom in a house from between the wars usually has simpler mouldings than a Victorian one, which makes it simple to take fitted furniture up to the ceiling. Around Coldharbour, where interwar homes, semis and detached houses are a big part of the housing, high cupboards make a good home for suitcases and spare bedding. The skirting is scribed around rather than removed.
The quote comes in writing, so there is time to read it properly and talk it over at home. It records the design, the materials and the finish we discussed.
- Location
- Coldharbour (SE9, BR7)
- Borough
- Greenwich
- Prices
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- Design visit, then a quote in writing
- Where it is made
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Boards and paint
- MDF and birch plywood, painted
- Fitting days
- Weekdays; Saturdays on request
- Get in touch
- The contact form
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
Flats, blocks and rented homes
Landlords furnishing a let use fitted furniture too, often to make the most of a small or awkward room. The materials are the same as for any home: moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
Some blocks ask for notice before trades arrive, often through a building manager or concierge. If there’s a lift, it may need booking, and its size matters when we plan the sections. Let us know about it when you get in touch.
Questions we’re often asked
Is Coldharbour in the area you cover for wall beds?
Yes, we work across Greenwich, Coldharbour included, and across the rest of London. You can use our contact form to arrange a design visit.
Is parking a problem for fitting in Coldharbour?
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 tell us about parking at the measuring visit, and we’ll plan around it.
What if the stairs or lift are small?
Getting it in is planned at the design visit. We measure the stairs, landings, lift and doors, and each section is made to a size that will get through.
What does a wall bed cost?
The price comes in a written quote, worked out from the measurements and the design you choose. Each wall bed is different, so we price it after measuring. To get started, fill in our short enquiry form.
Do you supply the mattress?
The mechanism maker sets which mattresses suit the bed, including its size, depth and weight. We’ll go through those limits at the measuring visit so you can choose one that works.
Will a wall bed work on my wall?
We check that at the measuring visit. Different walls need different fixings, and the mechanism maker’s instructions set what’s needed.
Bespoke wall beds or ready-made?
A standard bed is simple and needs no mechanism, which is a fair point in its favour. But if the room has other jobs to do, a wall bed lets it do them every day. Standard widths rarely add up to the length of a real wall, which fitted furniture avoids. It can use the full height too.
We do not publish set prices, because every piece is designed for one room. Instead, we measure, talk through the design and then quote in writing, naming the materials and finish. To start, fill in our short enquiry form.
Why choose us
- Scribed to uneven walls
- Saturdays by prior arrangement
- Workshop-made and fitted by us
- Designed for the room you have
Read how bespoke compares with ready-made or how to compare quotes.
Bedroom storage in Coldharbour
About 50% of the homes in the neighbourhood around Coldharbour went up between 1919 and 1939, and about 33% between 1945 and 1972, based on the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax data. Knowing roughly when a home was built helps, because walls and fixings change from one era to the next. Near the centre of Coldharbour, Historic England’s list includes Geffery' s Homes (Almshouses) (Grade II), under half a mile north-west. For a listed home, internal works that affect its character can require listed building consent from the council, for example removing or fixing into original panelling. The council’s conservation officer is the person to ask before work starts. About 50% of homes in the neighbourhood around Coldharbour date from between 1919 and 1939, on the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures for 2025. Houses from that era often have a box room over the stairs, with a raised bulkhead in the floor, a good spot for fitted furniture built around the bulkhead.
Eltham Palace, about 1.1 miles north, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. If your own home is a period one, solid external walls can be cold, so ventilation behind wall beds is part of the design. Living in a block of flats near Mottingham station? Then wall beds are made in sections sized for the stairs, landings and lift, so measuring the route matters as much as measuring the room. If your home is one of the older houses near St Alban, a bedroom chimney breast and its alcoves often shape where wall beds go.
Coldharbour is part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich, about 4 miles north of Plumstead. We design and make wall beds for homes in Coldharbour and across Greenwich, as part of our work in every London borough. We list Coldharbour among 18 places we cover in Greenwich.
Here we cover the SE9 and BR7 postcode area for wall beds. Our area takes in homes on streets like Green Lane, Horley Road and Dorset Road, along with the roads around them, whether you want wall beds or another piece made for the room. Neighbouring places we cover for wall beds include Mottingham (1 mile west), Chinbrook (1 mile west), New Eltham (1 mile north-east), Eltham (1 mile north) and Middle Park (1 mile north-west). We also make wall beds in nearby places like Plumstead (4 miles north), Greenwich (4 miles north-west), Woolwich (4 miles north), Westcombe Park (4 miles north), Well Hall (2 miles north) and Maze Hill (4 miles north-west).
Around Coldharbour
Our area takes in the homes around St Thomas More Catholic Comprehensive School. The closest station to Coldharbour is Mottingham station, about 0.6 miles north. Nearby you’ll also find Eltham Community Hospital (1.3 miles north). Open spaces near Coldharbour include The Tarn.
Neighbourhoods near Coldharbour
More for homes in Coldharbour
DIY, flat-pack or bespoke
Cost matters, and it’s fair to say so: off-the-shelf furniture typically 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.
Off-the-shelf furniture can be a sensible choice. If the walls are straight and the space suits standard sizes, it often does the job, and it is quick to buy.
Fitting day, step by step
You will not need to do much on the day. We need someone to let us in at the start, and the room should already be cleared. After that, it’s over to us: the floors are covered, the sections come in and the fitting begins. 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. 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. The main stairs in houses of that age are usually straighter. Each section is assembled and fixed in the room.
- You get in touch with some details about the room. Mention who the bed is for.
- The design visit covers measuring, the wall and the layout.
- You receive a written quote, setting out the design, materials and finish.
- Everything is built in our workshop.
- The wall bed is fitted in your home, with the mechanism fixed as its maker specifies.
Before fitting day
- Let us know where the boiler and meters are
- Take anything hanging off the wall we are fitting to
- Keep pets out of the room and the hallway
Getting a quote
Getting a quote starts with a few details: the room, rough measurements and some pictures if you have them. To send them, message us from the contact page. After that, we arrange a visit to measure and discuss the design, then send a quote in writing.