Merton · London
Colliers Wood Wall Beds
Walls in older London homes are rarely straight, so we scribe the furniture to follow them. We make wall beds for homes in Colliers Wood, each designed at a visit to your home.
- A hobby room with a bed for guests
- A study that doubles as a spare room
- A guest room that sits empty most of the time
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Wall beds in Colliers Wood: what you get
Many people now work from home in a room that also has to sleep guests. We can design a wall with a fold-down bed and a desk or shelving around it, so the bed doesn’t dominate the working day. Cable routes for the desk can be planned in, though any new sockets are for your electrician. Most enquiries start with a storage wall with a bed inside and a living room with a bed that folds away, and the answer is made at our workshop from birch plywood and moisture-resistant MDF with a spray-painted or hand-painted finish.
Around Colliers Wood, a large share of homes date from before 1919, and bedrooms in houses of that age often have a chimney breast with an alcove either side. Fitted furniture can fill the alcoves, wrap round the chimney breast or run across a whole wall. Because older floors slope and walls bow, everything is scribed and levelled on site.
Once you’ve read the quote and decided to go ahead, the furniture is made in our workshop. The quote sets out the agreed design, materials and finish, so every detail can be checked first.
- Place
- Colliers Wood (SW17, SW19, CR4)
- Borough
- Merton
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- First step
- Design visit, then a quote in writing
- Making
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Made from
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- Working days
- Monday to Friday; Saturdays by prior arrangement
- Enquiries
- Send us a message
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
FAQs: wall beds in Colliers Wood
Will a conservation area stop me having wall beds fitted in Colliers Wood?
Normally not: conservation area rules mainly cover the outside of buildings, and fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission. If your home is listed, changes inside that alter its character can need listed building consent, so check with the council first. The council’s planning or conservation team can tell you if in doubt.
Do you make wall beds for homes in Colliers Wood?
Yes, we work across Merton, Colliers Wood included, and across the rest of London. You can tell us about the room on our contact form to arrange a design visit.
Are fold-down beds safe to use?
Wall beds are made for regular use as long as they’re fixed and used as the maker specifies. We fix the mechanism securely to a sound wall or floor, and the maker’s guidance on use should always be followed.
How long will the wall bed take to fit?
It depends on the design. How long fitting takes depends on the size of the bed and the cabinets around it, and your quote sets out the fitting days, so you’ll know before we start.
Is a mattress included with the wall bed?
What matters most is that the mattress suits the mechanism. We go through the mechanism’s limits when we measure, so you can choose with confidence.
What do you do at the measuring visit?
We measure the room, check how level the walls and floors are and talk through the design with you. Access and parking are worth talking about too, and afterwards we send a written quote.
Practical tips
Painted fitted furniture is easy to look after with a little care. These habits help most:
- Check there is room for the bed to fold down
- Give the paint time to cure fully
- Look at your lease before fixing to the walls
- Allow space for pillows and duvets
The paint needs time to cure fully after fitting. Go easy on the doors and front at first, and wipe the cabinet with a soft cloth only.
Think about who will sleep in the bed and how often. It shapes the bed size and the type of mechanism as well as the storage around it.
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The problems wall beds solve
Often the bed is one part of a bigger plan. Shelves, cupboards or a desk built around it turn one wall into storage, workspace and a bed.
Here are some of the needs we’re asked about most:
- A bed that looks like cupboards by day
- More floor space in a studio flat
- A real mattress for visitors
- A home office that also sleeps guests
If you live in a period home close to St Nicholas, solid external walls can be cold, so ventilation behind wall beds is part of the design.
Choosing a carpenter
- How they handle walls that are not straight
- Whether the route into your home has been checked
- Is it spray painted or hand painted?
- Can you see real work of theirs?
Colliers Wood homes and wall beds
The biggest shares of homes in the neighbourhood around Colliers Wood were built before 1919 (about 55%) and between 1973 and 1999 (about 16%), in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock 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. The National Heritage List records 11 entries within half a mile of the centre of Colliers Wood. Being near listed buildings doesn’t make a home listed, and you can check any address on Historic England’s list. Terraced houses are home to about 31% of households in the neighbourhood around Colliers Wood, going by Census 2021 figures from the ONS. London terraces usually have a small back bedroom and alcoves in the main bedroom, which suit fitted furniture.
Living in a block of flats near Tooting station? Then the lift, the stair turns and the front door all set the largest piece that can come in. For a family home near Sellincourt Primary School, hanging rails set low at first can be raised later, as children get taller.
Colliers Wood is within the London Borough of Merton, about 2 miles west of Wimbledon. We cover Colliers Wood as part of our work across Merton, and the process is the same everywhere we work. Across Merton, we cover Colliers Wood.
We cover every part of SW17, SW19 and CR4. If your home is on a street such as Acre Road, Boyd Road and Park Road, or close by, we can visit to measure up for wall beds. Neighbouring places we cover for wall beds include Tooting (1 mile north), Tooting Bec (1 mile north), Merton Abbey (1 mile south-west), Furzedown (1 mile north-east) and Eastfields (1 mile south-east). We also make wall beds in nearby places like Wimbledon (2 miles west), Morden (3 miles south-west), Wimbledon Chase (2 miles west), Merton Park (2 miles west), Crooked Billet (3 miles west) and Bushey Mead (2 miles west). Colliers Wood is one of the larger places we cover in Merton.
Landmarks near Colliers Wood
The streets we cover here include those near The Royal Standard pub, Graveney School and Ensham School, among other places. There is a railway station in Colliers Wood itself: Tooting station. A little further out are Wandle Industrial Museum (1.2 miles south) and Grove Hospital (0.6 miles north). Green spaces nearby include Myrna Close.
Fitting day, step by step
Period rooms often have skirting boards, picture rails, cornices or coving for the furniture to meet. On fitting day, we cut and scribe the furniture around these details, so it looks as though it was always there. The time the fitting takes depends on the design and how much storage goes around the bed, and your quote sets out the fitting days. Older London houses often have narrow hallways and tight turns on the stairs, so the furniture comes in sections sized for the route in. Floors and stair carpets are protected on the way in and out, and the sections are joined and scribed in the room.
- You get in touch and tell us about the room and how often the bed is used. A desk or shelving around the bed can be part of it.
- We come to measure, look at the wall and floor, and go through the layout with you. We also check there is clear space in front to lower the bed.
- We send a quote setting out the design, materials and finish.
- The bed cabinet and any shelves or desk are built in our workshop.
- 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.
Before fitting day
- Arrange any electrical changes with your electrician ahead of time
- Take down pictures, mirrors and shelves from the wall
- Keep pets out of the room and the hallway
Getting a quote
Photos help us understand the room before we visit. Pictures of the whole wall, the corners and the ceiling line tell us a lot about the space. To share them, send us a few details through our contact form, and we will suggest a time for a design visit.
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Could you do it yourself?
Long shelves are where off-the-shelf often struggles. Span, depth and the weight on it decide whether a shelf sags, so a long run needs a thicker shelf, a stiffening lip or a support. We design shelves with that in mind.
Cost matters, and it’s fair to say so: off-the-shelf furniture usually costs less up front. Bespoke earns its place where the room is tricky, space is tight or you want the furniture to look part of the house.
Is bespoke worth it?
A sofa bed is cheaper and simpler, and for occasional guests that may be enough. With a wall bed you get a proper bed and an empty floor by day, which matters in a small room. The two recesses beside a chimney breast are seldom an identical size, which means a matching pair of ready-made units seldom fits both. Fitted furniture is made to each one separately.
Parking is part of the price picture in London. Much of London is covered by controlled parking zones, so we may need a visitor permit, a paid bay or a suspended bay near your home. It’s useful to talk about parking at the measuring visit, so it can be planned.
Why choose Bespoke Carpentry in Colliers Wood
- Finished by spray or by hand
- Over 300 projects completed
- Made in moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood
- Made in our workshop, then fitted in your home
Read our comparison of bespoke and off-the-shelf and how to compare quotes.