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Kevington Wall Beds
Planning wall beds for a home in Kevington? It starts with a design visit to measure and talk through ideas, then a quote in writing, before anything is made.
- A guest bed that disappears in the day
- A guest room that sits empty most of the time
- A storage wall with a bed inside
Wall beds for your home in Kevington
FAQs: wall beds in Kevington
Can parking be tricky on fitting day in Kevington?
It depends on the street, as many London boroughs run controlled parking zones. A van may need a visitor’s permit, a paid parking bay or a bay suspension, which the council arranges, often with notice. Let us know what parking is near you at the design visit.
I live near St Mary Cray station. Is that in your area?
Yes. We cover all of Bromley and the rest of London. To get started, you can tell us about the room on our contact form with some details about the room.
Is a mattress included with the wall bed?
The mattress needs to suit the mechanism, including its size, depth and weight. We can talk you through what the mechanism allows, so the mattress you choose fits.
How long does fitting take?
How long fitting takes depends on the size of the bed and the cabinets around it, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote.
How much does a wall bed cost?
Prices are quoted for your room, once we’ve measured and talked through the design. Each wall bed is different, so we price it after measuring. To get started, send us a few details through our contact form.
Do you do the electrics?
No. Electrical work isn’t something we do; it is a job for your electrician. We can plan cable routes into the design, and new sockets should be in place before fitting day.
Wall beds for homes in Kevington
The mattress has to suit the mechanism; the mechanism maker sets the size, depth and weight it can take. We will talk through what suits the bed at the measuring visit, so you can choose a mattress that works. We make wall beds from birch ply and moisture-resistant MDF, painted by hand or sprayed, and the things people most often want solved are a guest bed that disappears in the day and a spare room that’s rarely slept in.
A good share of the homes around Kevington were built between 1945 and the early 1970s. Bedrooms from that era are often squarer than in older houses, which suits fitted furniture along a full wall. Some post-war homes have an original cupboard over the stairs that can be rebuilt as part of the design. The fixings are chosen for the wall, whether it is blockwork, concrete or brick.
The written quote puts the design visit in writing: the layout and internal fittings, the materials and the finish. If you’d like to change anything, it is easier before the furniture is made.
- Location
- Kevington (BR5)
- Area
- Bromley
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- We visit, measure, then quote
- Made
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Boards and paint
- MDF and birch plywood, painted
- When we fit
- Weekdays (Saturdays if arranged)
- Contact
- Send us a message
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
Kevington homes and wall beds
About 43% of the homes in the neighbourhood around Kevington went up between 1945 and 1972, and about 26% between 1973 and 1999, 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 7 entries within half a mile of the centre of Kevington. You can check whether a particular building is listed on Historic England’s list. Parking controls in London are set borough by borough, so Bromley has its own. Where a street in Kevington is controlled, a van may need a visitor permit, a paid bay or a bay suspension from the council. It helps to tell us about parking during the design visit.
If you live in a flat close to St Mary Cray station, wall beds are made in sections sized for the stairs, landings and lift, so measuring the route matters as much as measuring the room. If your children go to Manor Oak Primary School or a school nearby, hanging rails set low at first can be raised later, as children get taller.
Kevington is in the London Borough of Bromley, about 1 mile west of Orpington. Design visits and fitting in Kevington can be on a Saturday, by arrangement. Across Bromley, we cover Kevington.
We cover every part of BR5. We cover homes on streets like Crockenhill Road and Sheepcote Lane, along with the roads around them, whether you want wall beds or another piece made for the room. Close by, we also work in Derry Downs (1 mile west), St Mary Cray (1 mile west), Orpington (1 mile west), Poverest (2 miles west) and St Paul's Cray (2 miles north-west). Elsewhere in Bromley, we also cover Bromley (5 miles west), Beckenham (7 miles west), Chislehurst (4 miles north-west), Biggin Hill (7 miles south-west), Plaistow (6 miles west) and Shortlands (6 miles west).
Around Kevington
In Kevington, that includes homes near Harris Academy Orpington and The Priory School and the streets around them. For rail, the closest station is St Mary Cray station, about 1.4 miles north-west. Nearby you will also find London Borough of Bromley Museum (1.5 miles west). Green spaces nearby include The Warren.
The problems wall beds solve
Sofa beds aren’t always comfortable for regular use. With a wall bed, guests sleep on a real mattress, on a proper frame.
People normally get in touch with us about needs like these:
- A bed that looks like cupboards by day
- A proper bed instead of a sofa bed
- A spare room that’s rarely slept in
- A storage wall with a bed inside
Near listed buildings like Kevington Hall, about 0.5 miles west of the centre of Kevington, 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.
Before you hire any carpenter
- Will other trades be needed, and who arranges them?
- How they handle walls that are not straight
- Whether they measure the room themselves
- Which materials they’ll use, named in the quote
Fitting day, step by step
When the fitting is done, we tidy the room and take up the floor coverings. Before we go, we look over the finished furniture with you. How long the fitting takes depends on the bed, the cabinets and the wall it fixes to, and the fitting days are agreed in your quote. Fixing into concrete takes a heavy-duty drill and makes some noise, so a word with the neighbours before fitting day can help. We work within any rules your building has on noise and hours. Dust is kept down and cleared as we go.
- First, you let us know about the room and how you’d like it to work. A desk or shelving around the bed can be part of it.
- At the design visit we measure the room, look at the wall and discuss the design.
- You get a quote in writing for the bed cabinet and any storage around it, for you to look over.
- We build and finish the bed housing and storage in our workshop.
- We fit it in your home, with the mechanism fixed as its maker specifies.
Before fitting day
- Tell us about any meters, fuse boards or boilers in the area
- Keep pets out of the room and the hallway
- Arrange any electrical changes with your electrician ahead of time
Arranging a design visit
To get a quote for wall beds in Kevington, tell us about the room on our contact form. Let us know the room and the rough idea, with sizes if you have them. Next comes a design visit, followed by a written quote.
Related advice
Bespoke wall beds or ready-made?
A normal bed has nothing to fix to the wall, which is a fair point in its favour. But if the room has other jobs to do, a wall bed lets it do them day after day. Big ready-made pieces can be awkward to carry up communal stairs, while fitted furniture arrives in sections made to fit the route. The sections are joined once inside.
In London, parking can affect the price. Much of London is covered by controlled parking zones, so we may need a visitor permit, a paid bay or a suspended bay. It helps to talk about parking during the design visit, so we can plan for it.
Why choose us
- Finished by spray or by hand
- Built around your room
- More than 300 projects completed
- Saturday visits and fitting by prior arrangement
Where other trades come in
It’s worth being clear about where our work stops:
- Getting consent under your lease
- New sockets, lighting or wiring (your electrician)
- Building work to make a wall sound
If in doubt, you can message us from the contact page and describe the room. Our process from visit to fitting.
What goes into it
- Hand-painted finish
- Shelves or a desk alongside
- Spray-painted finish
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Fold-down bed mechanism
- Birch plywood
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When is bespoke worth it?
Cost matters, and it is fair to say so: off-the-shelf furniture normally costs less up front. Bespoke makes more sense where the room is awkward, the space is valuable or you want the furniture to look built in.
Standard units come in set widths and heights, so there’s often a strip of wasted space at the side or above. Furniture we make is built to the room’s own sizes, so it can run to the ceiling and fill the width.