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Wall Beds in Keston
In Keston, we design wall beds around the room you actually have. Your wall bed is designed at a visit to your home and made in our workshop.
- Room for a desk and a guest bed
- Shelves or a desk around the bed
- A spare room that is rarely slept in
Wall beds designed for your room
Wall beds in Keston
We fit wall beds in Keston and across London. It starts with a design visit to measure the room and check the wall, then a written quote. The cabinets are made at our workshop and fitted in your home. The time the fitting takes depends on the size of the bed and the cabinets around it, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. If your home has a guest room that sits empty most of the time and a bed that looks like cupboards by day, that is what wall beds are for, made from birch plywood and moisture-resistant MDF with a spray-painted or hand-painted finish.
With interwar houses or semis a big part of the housing around Keston, bedrooms are often straightforward shapes, sometimes with a chimney breast or a bay. Fitted furniture can run along the longest wall, with the inside arranged to suit you. If the loft has been converted, sloping ceilings bring their own options.
We write quotes in plain English, without jargon. They say what will be made, what it is made from and how it will be finished, taken from what we agreed at the visit.
- Place
- Keston (BR2)
- Borough
- Bromley
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- We visit, measure, then quote
- Where it is made
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Materials and finish
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Fitting days
- Monday to Friday; Saturdays by arrangement
- Contact
- Our contact form
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Practical tips
New paint needs time to cure fully, so go gently with it for a while. After that, a few simple habits help:
- Tell us what the wall is made of if you know
- Plan a cupboard for spare bedding
- Plan where chairs and desks will sit
- Give the paint time to cure fully
The mechanism maker’s guidance says how much bedding can stay on the bed when it folds away. We can build a cupboard beside the bed for extra bedding.
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.
How fitting works for wall beds
Before anything is fixed, we set the furniture level. Where the floor slopes, we bring the furniture up to level on adjustable feet or a plinth, which keeps the lines straight. After that, it is fixed to the wall using fixings that suit the wall, whether that is solid brick, lath and plaster or plasterboard. Interwar houses normally have a straight run of stairs and a reasonable hallway, though we still measure the route in as well as the room. Wall beds arrive in sections and are assembled in place.
- You get in touch and tell us about the room and the wall where the bed could go.
- At the design visit we check what the wall is made of, as a wall bed has to be fixed securely as its maker specifies.
- You receive a quote in writing for the wall bed and any storage.
- The bed housing and any shelves or desk are made at our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- On fitting day the cabinet goes in, the mechanism is fixed securely and the bed is tried out.
- Before we leave we show you how to lower and lift the bed.
Preparing the room
- Make sure pets are kept safely away
- Let us know about any meters, fuse boards or boilers in the area
- Arrange any electrical changes with your electrician in advance
Starting with a design visit
Prices are quoted for your room, once we’ve measured and talked through the design. Because every room is different, the quote comes after the design visit. To arrange a visit, fill in our short enquiry form.
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Common questions about wall beds
Will parking be an issue for fitting furniture in Keston?
It depends on the street, as many London boroughs run controlled parking zones. 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 design visit, so the day can be planned around it.
Do I need permission for fitted furniture in a conservation area?
Typically 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, works inside that affect 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 I need to be in when you fit?
Someone needs to be there to let us in. After that, you do not need to stay in the room.
Can a wall bed go on any 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, so we check it at the measuring visit.
Can you fit furniture to uneven walls?
It’s something we deal with all the time. The furniture is scribed to follow the walls and levelled on feet or a plinth, so there are no gaps at the sides.
Can you make wall beds for a home in Keston?
Yes. We work in Keston and across Bromley, and the process is the same everywhere we go.
How we price wall beds
Every room is different, so every job is quoted on its own. These are the things that affect it:
- Where a van can park, such as a permit bay or a bay suspension
- The finish: spray painted or hand painted
- The width and height of the space
- What goes inside: rails, shelves, drawers and dividers
The finish affects the cost: spray painting happens in the workshop, and hand painting can be done in your home. The written quote reflects your choice, along with the size and fittings.
What to send when you get in touch
Some details help us understand the job before we visit. When you get in touch, it helps to send:
- Whether it is a house or a flat, and if there are stairs or a lift
- Rough measurements: width, height and depth
- Where you live, with the postcode
- Pictures of styles you like, if you have any
Every quote follows a design visit. We measure the space, check the walls and floors and discuss what you’d like, then send a quote in writing. Prices are quoted for your room, once we’ve measured and talked through the design. To arrange a visit, fill in our short enquiry form.
Could you do it yourself?
What you pay for with bespoke is mainly the fit: scribed edges, a level base on an uneven floor and furniture that meets the ceiling, skirting and picture rail. In an older room, standard units rarely manage that.
Standard units come in set widths and heights, so there is normally a gap left over at the top or at one end. Fitted furniture is made to the room’s measurements, so it can use the full height and width.
Fitted bedroom furniture in Keston
In the neighbourhood around Keston, the largest groups of homes date from between 1945 and 1972 (about 33%) and between 1919 and 1939 (about 31%), on the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures for 2025. That matters for wall beds, as the build era decides whether a wall is solid brick, lath and plaster, block or plasterboard. Within a mile of the centre of Keston, 4 conservation areas are recorded by Historic England. Historic England says England has around 10,000, and the controls mainly cover the outside of buildings, so fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission. Around a third of the homes in the streets around Keston (about 31%) date from between 1919 and 1939, in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. Many interwar houses have a small room over the stairs, which suits fitted storage made around its bulkhead.
If your home is one of the older houses near Keston Parish Church, a bedroom chimney breast and its alcoves often shape where wall beds go. If your children go to Keston Church of England Primary School or a school nearby, the inside of wall beds can be laid out with adjustable shelves, so the space keeps up as children grow.
Keston is in the London Borough of Bromley, about 4 miles north-east of Orpington. Wherever you are in Keston, the process is the same: we visit and measure, send a written quote, make the furniture in our workshop and fit it. We list Keston among 49 places we cover in Bromley.
Design visits and fitting in BR2 work the same way as everywhere else we cover. You will find streets here like Church Road, Greys Park Close and Heathfield Road, and homes on each of them are within our area for wall beds. Nearby, we also make wall beds in Nash (1 mile west), Farthing Street (1 mile south-east), Locksbottom (1 mile north-east), Leaves Green (2 miles south) and Hayes (2 miles north-west). We also make wall beds in nearby places such as Orpington (4 miles north-east), Bromley (3 miles north), Beckenham (4 miles north-west), St Mary Cray (4 miles north-east), Chislehurst (4 miles north) and Penge (5 miles north-west).
Local landmarks in Keston
The streets we cover here include those near Ravens Wood School and The Greyhound pub and the streets around them. The closest station to Keston is Hayes (Kent) station, about 1.5 miles north-west of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include Princess Royal University Hospital (1.1 miles east) and Bethlem Museum of the Mind (1.5 miles north).
Why people ask for wall beds in Keston
Sofa beds aren’t always comfortable for regular use. A wall bed takes a proper mattress, chosen to suit its mechanism, and the bed sits flat on its frame.
We are often asked to help with:
- Storage built around a fold-down bed
- A studio that works by day and night
- A study that doubles as a spare room
- A playroom that can sleep visitors
Near listed buildings like Keston Windmill, less than half a mile south of the centre of Keston, older homes may keep original joinery that wall beds can be designed around. If your own home is listed, check with the council before fixing into original features.
What to check before you book
- Whether the finish is set out in the quote
- A written quote that sets out the job
- Whether they measure the room themselves
- How doors and drawers are fitted