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Wall Beds in High Barnet
Wall beds for your home in High Barnet: fold-down wall beds built into fitted cabinets. Each piece is designed at a visit to your home, made at our workshop and fitted by us.
- Room for a desk and a guest bed
- A spare room that is rarely slept in
- A guest bed that disappears in the day
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The problems wall beds solve
Often the bed is one part of a bigger plan. Cupboards and shelving either side make the whole wall useful.
Here are some of the needs we’re asked about most:
- A studio that works by day and night
- A spare room that’s rarely slept in
- A proper bed instead of a sofa bed
- Room for a desk and a guest bed
If your children go to Foulds School or a school nearby, a mix of drawers and shelves copes with school uniform as well as everything else.
Questions to ask before you hire anyone
- How the doors are hung and adjusted
- Whether the finish is set out in the quote
- Whether you will get a quote in writing, not just a figure
- How parking will work on your street
Wall beds in High Barnet
You need room in front of the cabinet to lower the bed, so we plan the layout with that in mind. Furniture in front of the bed has to be easy to move or kept out of the way, so the bed can come down without a shuffle. Most enquiries start with a bed that looks like cupboards by day and a hobby room with a bed for guests; the furniture is made from birch ply and moisture-resistant MDF, painted by hand or sprayed.
With interwar houses or semis a big part of the housing around High Barnet, bedrooms are often straightforward shapes, sometimes with a chimney breast or a bay. That makes a full wall of fitted furniture simple to plan, laid out around what you store. Where a loft conversion has been added, the sloping ceiling can take storage too.
The quote names the materials: 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.
- Place
- High Barnet (EN5)
- Borough
- Barnet
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- First step
- Design visit, then a written quote
- Making
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Materials and finish
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- When we fit
- Monday to Friday; Saturdays by arrangement
- Get in touch
- Send us a message
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
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From workshop to your room
Before anything is fixed, we set the furniture level. Floors are often out of level, so adjustable feet or a plinth take up the difference, and that keeps the doors and shelves true. After that, it is fixed to the wall using fixings that suit the wall, whether that is solid brick, lath and plaster or plasterboard. On fitting day, the sections are carried in, assembled, scribed to the wall and levelled. Spray-painted pieces come finished from the workshop, while hand painting can happen on site. Saturday fitting is possible by arrangement.
- First, you tell us 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.
- We fit the bed and storage in your home.
Getting ready for fitting day
- Clear the area where the furniture is going
- Let us know where the boiler and meters are
- Arrange any electrical changes with your electrician ahead of time
Starting with a design visit
Every quote follows a design visit. We measure the space, check the walls and floors and discuss what you’d like, and the written quote comes after. The price comes in a written quote, worked out from the measurements and the design you choose. To arrange a visit, send us a few details through our contact form.
Advice
Fitted bedroom furniture in High Barnet
The biggest shares of homes in the streets around High Barnet were built before 1919 (about 42%) and between 1919 and 1939 (about 25%), in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. It is a good starting point, though every room is still measured, as two homes of the same age rarely match. Entries on the National Heritage List near the centre of High Barnet include Church of St John the Baptist (Grade II*), under half a mile south-east, and Stable Block to Hadley House (Grade II*), about 0.5 miles north-east. Where a home is listed, listed building consent can be needed for inside works that affect its character, such as fixing into original panelling. The council’s conservation officer is the person to ask before work starts. About 25% of homes in the neighbourhood around High Barnet date from between 1919 and 1939, based on the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax data. Houses from that era often have a box room over the stairs, with a raised bulkhead in the floor, which suits fitted storage made around its bulkhead.
Close to King George's Fields (Monken Hadley)? Keeping wall beds off the window wall keeps the room bright. If you live in a period home close to Christ Church, solid external walls can be cold, so ventilation behind wall beds is part of the design.
High Barnet is about 4 miles south of Finchley, in the London Borough of Barnet. Wherever you are in High Barnet, it works the same way: a design visit, a quote in writing, furniture made in our workshop and fitting in your home. High Barnet is one of 41 places on our list for Barnet.
We cover every part of the EN5 postcode area. Our area takes in homes on streets such as Byng Road, Park Road and Kings Road, along with the roads around them, whether you want wall beds or another piece made for the room. High Barnet sits close to the A1081. If you are just outside High Barnet, we also cover Hadley (1 mile east), Arkley (1 mile south-west), Totteridge (1 mile south) and Rowley Green (2 miles west). Elsewhere in Barnet, we also cover Finchley (4 miles south), Burnt Oak (4 miles south-west), East Finchley (5 miles south), Hendon (5 miles south), Whetstone (3 miles south-east) and Edgware (4 miles south-west).
Local landmarks in High Barnet
Around High Barnet, we cover homes near Queen Elizabeth's School, Susi Earnshaw Theatre School and The White Lion pub, among other places. The closest station to High Barnet is Hadley Wood station, roughly 1.6 miles north-east of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Barnet General Hospital (0.5 miles south-west) and Spires Shopping Centre (within half a mile east). Not far away are Barnet Countryside Centre.
Where other trades come in
It is worth being clear about where our work stops:
- Making good the walls after other work
- Lease checks, which are for you and your building’s managers
- Building work to make a wall sound
If you’re not sure what’s possible in your room, you can use our contact form and we will give you a straight answer. How a job runs, step by step.
What it is made from
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Shelves or a desk alongside
- Fold-down bed mechanism
- Birch plywood
- Spray-painted finish
- Hand-painted finish
Flats, leases and landlords
Mansion blocks and purpose-built blocks often have house rules about lifts, entry systems and when trades can come in. Let us know about them at the measuring visit, and we will plan the fitting around them.
In a flat, the route in matters as much as the room. We measure the stairs, landings, lift and doorways as well as the room, so each section is sized to get through without a struggle.
Your questions about wall beds in High Barnet
Do you make wall beds for homes in High Barnet?
Yes. High Barnet is one of the places we work, along with the rest of Barnet and London. You can tell us about the room on our contact form to arrange a design visit.
Do I need permission for fitted furniture in a conservation area?
Not normally. Conservation area controls are mostly concerned with the outside of buildings, so fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission. If your home is listed, works inside that affect its character may need listed building consent, so check with the council first. The council’s planning or conservation team can tell you if in doubt.
Can you add sockets inside the units?
No. Any new wiring, sockets or lights need an electrician. We will design around them.
Who chooses the colour?
The choice is yours. Whichever finish you pick, it is in the colour you’ve chosen.
Does someone need to be home during the fitting?
Someone needs to be there to let us in. You don’t need to watch us work, though we like to go over the furniture with you at the end.
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.
Materials and finishes
Shelves
A few open shelves beside the bed break up a run of doors.
Hand-painted finish
Some people like the softer look of a hand-painted finish that suits older homes.