Camden · London
Dartmouth Park Wall Beds
For homes in Dartmouth Park, we make wall beds from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood. Each piece is finished by spray or by hand, in the colour you choose.
- A study that doubles as a spare room
- Shelves or a desk around the bed
- Hiding the bed when it is not in use
Wall beds in Dartmouth Park
What we don’t do
Our work is the furniture itself: designing it, making it in our workshop and fitting it. In practice, that means:
- Getting consent under your lease
- Structural work to the wall or floor
- Decorating around the cabinet
If you are not sure what’s possible in your room, you can drop us a line using the contact form and we will give you a straight answer. How a job runs, step by step.
What goes into it
- Fold-down bed mechanism
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Hand-painted finish
- Shelves or a desk alongside
- Spray-painted finish
- Birch plywood
About our wall beds in Dartmouth Park
The cabinet is made from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, spray painted in our workshop or hand painted. From the front, the folded bed can look like a set of tall cupboards, so the room does not read as a bedroom by day. If your home has a guest room that sits empty most of the time and a playroom that can sleep visitors, that’s what wall beds are for, made from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, spray-painted or hand-painted.
A large share of the homes around Dartmouth Park were built before 1919, and bedrooms in houses of that age often have a chimney breast with an alcove either side. Fitted storage can sit in the alcoves or span the wall, chimney breast and all. Walls and floors in older houses are rarely true, so the pieces are scribed to the wall and levelled at the base.
Everything we agree during the design visit goes into the written quote: the layout and internal fittings, the materials and the finish. If something isn’t quite right, tell us before anything is made.
- Where
- Dartmouth Park (NW5, N19, N7)
- Area
- Camden
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- First step
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Made
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Boards and paint
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Fitting days
- Weekdays, and Saturdays by arrangement
- Get in touch
- The contact form
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
Flats, conversions and leaseholders
A lot of London’s terraced houses are now converted flats, and that often means a shared hallway and a tight turn on the stairs. We plan the size of each section around it, after measuring the route during the design visit.
For flats on red routes or busy main roads, unloading takes some planning. TfL runs the red routes, and the stopping rules are strict, so it is worth raising at the design visit.
Wall beds in Dartmouth Park: local notes
About 55% of the homes in the streets around Dartmouth Park went up before 1919, and about 15% between 1973 and 1999, according to Valuation Office Agency council tax figures (2025). The age of a home tells us a lot about its walls, floors and ceilings, and so about how wall beds are fixed and fitted. Within a mile of the centre of Dartmouth Park, 13 conservation areas are recorded by Historic England. England has around 10,000 in all, and their controls are mostly concerned with the outside of buildings. Flats in converted or shared houses account for about 32% of households in the neighbourhood around Dartmouth Park, the 2021 Census shows. In a converted house, rooms can be odd shapes, with new partitions meeting old walls, and the route in may go through a shared hall and stairs. A lease can require consent for alterations, so it is worth checking yours first.
Close to Whittington Park? Keeping wall beds off the window wall keeps the room bright. If your home is one of the older houses near Church of St Mary Brookfield, a bedroom chimney breast and its alcoves often shape where wall beds go.
Dartmouth Park is about 3 miles south-east of St Pancras, within the London Borough of Camden. From period terraces to newer flats in Dartmouth Park, the furniture is designed around the room as we find it. Dartmouth Park is one of the places in Camden where we make wall beds, and the borough has 28 places on our list.
We make wall beds across NW5, N19 and N7. We cover homes on streets such as Hugo Road, Ward Road and Anson 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 Lissenden Gardens (1 mile south-west), Tufnell Park (1 mile east), Gospel Oak (1 mile south-west), Upper Holloway (1 mile north-east) and Highgate (1 mile north). Other parts of Camden we cover include St Pancras (3 miles south-east), Hampstead (2 miles west), West End (3 miles south), St Giles (3 miles south), Seven Dials (3 miles south) and West Hampstead (2 miles west).
Landmarks near Dartmouth Park
The streets we cover here include those near Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, The Dartmouth Arms and Asanté Academy of Chinese Medicine. The closest station to Dartmouth Park is Gospel Oak station, about 0.5 miles south-west. A little further out are O2 Centre (1.8 miles south-west) and Royal Northern Hospital (0.8 miles east). Open spaces near Dartmouth Park include Belsize Wood and Dartmouth Park Hill.
Why people ask for wall beds in Dartmouth Park
Some people are tired of sofa beds. With a wall bed, guests sleep on a real mattress, on a proper frame.
People typically get in touch with us about things like these:
- Storage built around a fold-down bed
- A study that doubles as a spare room
- A real mattress for visitors
- A bed that fills a little-used room
Witanhurst, about 0.8 miles north-west, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. For a period home anywhere nearby, tall ceilings give wall beds room to reach the cornice.
Before you hire any carpenter
- Is it spray painted or hand painted?
- Have they thought about parking near you?
- Which parts of the job need an electrician or a plumber
- Whether the route into your home has been checked
Fitting day, step by step
Fitting day follows a set order: we protect the floors, bring the sections in, set them level, scribe them to the walls, fix them and finish them. At the end, we tidy up and go over the work with you. The time the fitting takes depends on the bed, the cabinets and the wall it fixes to, and the fitting days are agreed in your quote. Hallways in period houses are often narrow, and the stairs turn sharply, so the furniture comes in sections sized for the route in. Floors, stairs and doorways are covered before anything is carried through, and the sections are joined and scribed in the room.
- You tell us about the room.
- At the design visit we agree the layout and the colour.
- A written quote follows.
- We build the cabinets in our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- The wall bed is fitted, and any hand painting is done on site. New paint needs gentle use while it cures.
How to prepare
- Mention any parking restrictions on your street
- Clear the area where the furniture is going
- Let us know where the boiler and meters are
Arranging a design visit
If you already have something in mind, tell us; if you do not, that’s fine, and we can work it out together. The design is talked through at the visit, once we’ve measured, and the written quote then sets it out. To arrange a visit, message us from the contact page.
Advice
Boards, parts and paint
Moisture-resistant MDF
Moisture-resistant MDF is stable and takes paint well for a clean, even look.
Shelves
We can add shelving around the bed for books, boxes or display.
Your questions about wall beds in Dartmouth Park
Is Dartmouth Park in the area you cover for wall beds?
Yes. We cover all of Camden and the rest of London, and Dartmouth Park is part of that. The first step is a design visit, where we measure and discuss the design, followed by a quote.
Is parking a problem for fitting in Dartmouth Park?
It can be, as controlled parking zones cover much of inner London. A van may need a visitor permit, a pay-and-display bay or a suspended bay, which the council arranges, often with notice. It’s useful to let us know about parking at the measuring visit, so we can plan the day around it.
Do I need permission in a conservation area?
Not normally. Conservation area controls are mainly about the outside of buildings, and furniture inside a house does not normally need it. Listed buildings are different: check with the council’s conservation officer first.
What happens when you come to measure?
We measure the room, check how level the walls and floors are and go through the design with you. We will also ask about access and parking, and a written quote follows.
Can a wall bed have storage around it?
Yes. We often design the bed as part of a wider storage wall, so the whole wall is useful. We plan it so the bed still has room to come down.
Do you supply the mattress?
The mechanism maker sets limits on mattress size and weight. We will explain its limits at the measuring visit, so you can pick the right one.