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Wall beds in Finsbury, Islington
Planning wall beds for a home in Finsbury? We start with a design visit and a quote in writing, before anything is made.
- A home office that also sleeps guests
- A studio that works by day and night
- A bed that looks like cupboards by day
Wall beds designed for your room
Wall beds for homes in Finsbury
A wall bed folds up into a fitted cabinet when you don’t need it and is lowered again at night. It means a room can work as more than a bedroom, such as a spare room that’s also a study. We make the cabinet for your room and paint it in a colour you choose. Typical reasons to get in touch are a flexible room for a growing family and somewhere comfortable for guests to sleep, and the answer is made at our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, finished by spray or by hand.
Hinged doors need space to open, which a compact bedroom may not have, so the layout and the kind of door are worked out together. Around Finsbury, many homes date from 2000 onwards, and newer bedrooms tend to be on the small side. The space in front is measured as carefully as the wall.
Materials are named in the quote: moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, each used where it suits the job. It also says how the furniture will be finished: spray painted or hand painted.
- Where
- Finsbury (EC1V, N1, EC2A)
- Area
- Islington
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Making
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Materials and finish
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- Working days
- Weekdays, and Saturdays by arrangement
- Contact
- Send us a message
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
The problems wall beds solve
Others want the bed to be part of a wider storage wall. Shelves, cupboards or a desk built around it make the whole wall useful.
If any of these sound familiar, it is worth getting in touch:
- A living room with a bed that folds away
- A guest room that sits empty most of the time
- A playroom that can sleep visitors
- A guest bed that disappears in the day
If you live in a period home close to Jewin Welsh Presbyterian Chapel, a bedroom chimney breast and its alcoves often shape where wall beds go.
Choosing a carpenter
- Do they scribe the furniture to the walls?
- Whether the quote says what the furniture is made from
- Whether the route into your home has been checked
- Whether they measure the room themselves
Flats, conversions and lettings
Landlords furnishing a let use fitted furniture too. It is made from the same moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood as any of our work.
Blocks of flats often have their own rules on lift bookings, entry systems and times for trades. Let us know about them at the measuring visit, and we’ll plan the fitting around them.
Places near Finsbury
What else we make in Finsbury
Common questions about wall beds
I live near Old Street station. Is that in your area?
Yes, homes across Islington and the rest of London are within the area we cover. To get started, you can get in touch through our contact form with some details about the room.
Is Finsbury in the area you cover for wall beds?
Yes, Finsbury is within the area we cover, which takes in all of Islington and the rest of London. The first step is a design visit, where we measure and talk through the design, and then we send a quote.
What if the stairs or lift are small?
Getting it in is planned at the measuring visit. The stairs, landings, any lift and the doorways are measured, and the furniture is made in sections sized to get through.
Will a wall bed work on my wall?
That depends on what the wall and floor are made of. The mechanism has to be fixed securely as its maker specifies, to a wall or floor that can take the load, and we look at this when we measure.
Do you move sockets or add lighting?
No. Any new wiring, sockets or lights need an electrician. We plan the furniture around where they’ll go.
Does someone need to be home during the fitting?
We need access, so someone has to let us in. After that, you don’t need to stay in the room.
What it’s made from
Hand-painted finish
If you’d like the bed to match the skirting or doors, hand painting works well.
Spray-painted finish
We spray paint in the workshop for a smooth, factory-like finish.
Wall beds for homes in Finsbury
The biggest shares of homes in the area around Finsbury were built since 2000 (about 36%) and between 1945 and 1972 (about 33%), 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. Part of Finsbury is in a conservation area, going by Historic England’s data. Conservation area rules mainly cover the outside of buildings, so fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission. If in doubt, the council’s planning team can confirm. Fewer homes around Finsbury date from before 1919 than across Islington: about 18%, against about 44%, based on the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax data. So the walls behind wall beds here are more likely to be later brick, block or plasterboard, and they’re checked at the measuring visit.
For families living near Prior Weston Primary School and Children's Centre, wall beds in a child’s room can be planned so the inside layout changes as they grow. Near listed buildings like Church of St Giles, less than half a mile south of the centre of Finsbury, older homes may keep original joinery that wall beds can be designed around. For a listed home, fixing into original features may need listed building consent.
Finsbury is within the London Borough of Islington, about 2 miles north of Highbury. From period terraces to newer flats in Finsbury, we measure the room as it is and design around it. In Islington, Finsbury is one of the places we cover.
We work across the EC1V, N1 and EC2A postcode area. If your home is on a street like Oat Lane, Long Lane and Love Lane, or close by, we can visit to measure up for wall beds. The A1 and A501 runs close to Finsbury; on busy main roads, unloading wall beds takes a little planning. We also cover the places around Finsbury: St Luke's (1 mile north), Barbican Estate (1 mile south), City of London (1 mile south), Bishopsgate (1 mile south-east) and Shoreditch (1 mile east). Other parts of Islington we cover include Highbury (2 miles north), Barnsbury (2 miles north-west), Holloway (3 miles north-west), Mildmay (2 miles north), Upper Holloway (3 miles north-west) and Nag's Head (3 miles north-west). Being one of the larger places in Islington, Finsbury is covered for all of our fitted furniture.
Local landmarks in Finsbury
Our area takes in the homes around The Jugged Hare pub, Barts Health Archives and Charterhouse Square School. There’s a railway station in Finsbury itself: Old Street station. Nearby you’ll also find Montfichet's Tower (0.7 miles south-west) and St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics (a few minutes’ walk north-east). Open spaces near Finsbury include Ludgate Hill.
How fitting works for wall beds
Furniture made in a workshop still has to meet the room it’s going into, and fitting day is where that happens. Few walls in older London homes are truly flat or square, so we scribe the edges by hand to follow the wall, until the line is tight. How long the fitting itself takes depends on the size of the bed and the cabinets around it, and your quote sets out the fitting days. In a newer development, the lift, the concierge and set working hours may all need checking, so it helps to sort them out beforehand. The furniture is built in sections that fit the lift and doorways.
- First, you let us know about the space.
- We visit, measure and go through the bed, shelves and desk. What the wall is made of matters, as the bed has to be fixed securely.
- You receive a quote in writing, setting out the design, materials and finish.
- The cabinets are made at our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- The wall bed is fitted in your home, with the mechanism fixed as its maker specifies.
Preparing the room
- Point out meters, boilers and fuse boards near the furniture
- Get any new sockets or wiring done by your electrician before fitting day
- Keep pets out of the room and the hallway
Ask for a quote
Rough sizes are fine at the start. We measure everything properly at the measuring visit, along with the walls, floor and ceiling. To get started, tell us about the room on our contact form. You receive a quote in writing after the visit.
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Pricing wall beds in Finsbury
The price reflects the time and materials the job needs. The main factors are:
- Awkward walls, sloping ceilings and uneven floors
- Whether you choose a spray or hand-painted finish
- Access to the room, like stairs, lifts and narrow halls
- Hanging rails, shelves, drawers and other fittings inside
Every room is priced on its own, because size, layout and finish change from job to job. Spray painting and hand painting are different processes, which affects the cost. The figure comes in your written quote after the design visit.
Before the design visit
These details help when you get in touch:
- Anything fixed to the wall that the furniture needs to work around
- Any ideas or images you’ve saved
- Your postcode and the borough
- Rough measurements: width, height and depth
To get a quote, tell us about the room on our contact form and tell us which room you have in mind and what you want the furniture to do. We then arrange a design visit to measure and talk through the design, and a quote in writing follows.