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Maida Vale Wall Beds
We make wall beds for homes in Maida Vale, designed around the room you have. Your wall bed is designed at a visit to your home and made in our workshop.
- A spare room that’s rarely slept in
- A real mattress for visitors
- More floor space in a studio flat
Wall beds for your home in Maida Vale
Wall beds in Maida Vale
Our wall beds are made for homes in Maida Vale and all over London. It starts with a design visit to measure the room and check the wall, followed by a quote. The cabinets are made at our workshop and fitted in your home. How long fitting takes depends on the design and how much storage goes around the bed, and your quote sets out the fitting days. Most enquiries start with somewhere comfortable for guests to sleep and a spare room that’s rarely slept in, and the answer is made in our workshop from birch ply and moisture-resistant MDF, painted by hand or sprayed.
Floors in older houses often slope, which matters around Maida Vale, as a large share of homes there date from before 1919. Pieces stand on a levelled plinth or adjustable feet, so doors close square and the gaps stay even. The scribe at the wall takes up any bow in the plaster.
You get the quote in writing, so you can read it at your own pace. It covers the design, materials and finish agreed at the visit.
- Place
- Maida Vale (W9, NW8, NW6)
- Area
- Westminster
- Prices
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- Design visit, then a written quote
- Where it is made
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Made from
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Fitting days
- Weekdays; Saturdays on request
- Enquiries
- The contact form
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
How it’s made
Moisture-resistant MDF
Moisture-resistant MDF is stable and takes paint well, giving the front a smooth finish.
Hand-painted finish
Hand painting suits a cabinet that should match the room’s woodwork.
Common questions about wall beds
Will a conservation area stop me having wall beds fitted in Maida Vale?
Not normally. Conservation area controls are largely about how buildings look from outside, so fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission. If your home is listed, works inside that affect its character can require listed building consent, so check with the council first. The council’s planning or conservation team can tell you if in doubt.
Will parking be an issue for fitting furniture in Maida Vale?
It can be, as controlled parking zones cover much of inner London. 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 during the design visit, so the day can be planned around it.
What space does a fold-down bed take up?
You need clear floor in front of the cabinet for the bed to fold down, on top of the cabinet’s own depth. We check the space when we measure, so the design works.
Can I send pictures before the visit?
Yes, they help. Pictures of the whole wall or room, including the floor and ceiling, give us a good idea of the space, particularly with rough measurements. You can send them when you fill in our short enquiry form.
How do you get the furniture up the stairs?
We plan the route in at the measuring visit. The stairs, landings, any lift and the doorways are measured, and each section is made to a size that will get through.
Do you work for landlords and letting agents?
Yes. The process is the same: a design visit, a written quote, then the furniture is made and fitted. If the property is let, the agent can arrange access with the tenants.
Caring for painted furniture
These points come up often when people plan wall beds. They help whatever the room:
- Decide who the bed is mainly for
- Keep children away while the bed moves
- Check your lease if you live in a flat
- Mention if the wall is a stud wall
Should the bed start to move differently, stop and let us know. The mechanism should only be adjusted as its maker allows.
Tell us what the wall is made of if you know. Solid brick, stud walls and plasterboard need different fixings, and we check it at the measuring visit too.
Is bespoke worth it?
A wall bed is fixed to the house, so it stays when you move. It’s worth thinking about how long you plan to stay before choosing built-in. The two recesses beside a chimney breast are seldom an identical size, and standard units bought as a pair rarely suit both. Fitted furniture is made to each one separately.
Your quote is written for your room once we’ve visited and measured. The price depends mainly on the size of the piece, how many doors and drawers it has and what goes inside.
Why choose us
- Moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood
- Saturday visits and fitting by arrangement
- Designed for the room you have
- Workshop-made and fitted by us
See our comparison of bespoke and off-the-shelf and how to compare quotes.
From workshop to your room
You are welcome to ask questions while we work. Most of the decisions were made at the design visit and set out in your quote, so fitting day is about putting it in place carefully and leaving the room tidy. How long the fitting takes depends on the bed, the cabinets and the wall it fixes to, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. If your hall still has its original tiles or boards, they’re covered before any carrying starts. Drilling into lath and plaster is done with care, so the plaster around stays sound. Decorating around the furniture afterwards is for your decorator.
- It starts with a short note from you.
- We come to measure and discuss the bed, the storage and the finish.
- You receive a written quote covering the design, materials and finish.
- 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.
Preparing the room
- Book any lift and let the concierge or building manager know
- Clear the walls of pictures and shelves
- Move anything in the hall or on the stairs out of the way
How to get a quote
The design visit is where every quote starts. We measure the room properly, check how the walls and floors run and go through the design with you. Afterwards, we send a written quote, so you can take your time with it. To book one, drop us a line using the contact form.
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Wall beds in Maida Vale: local notes
In the area around Maida Vale, the largest groups of homes date from before 1919 (about 49%) and between 1945 and 1972 (about 16%), according to Valuation Office Agency council tax figures (2025). That matters for wall beds, as the build era decides whether a wall is solid brick, lath and plaster, block or plasterboard. Entries on the National Heritage List near the centre of Maida Vale include Church of St Mary Magdalene (Grade I), less than half a mile south, and Church of St Augustine (Grade I), less than half a mile north. Listing covers the inside of a building as well as the outside, so works that affect a listed home’s character, like removing original joinery, can require listed building consent. An early word with the council’s conservation officer is the best first step. About 49% of homes in the neighbourhood around Maida Vale were built before 1919, in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. Older houses can have lath-and-plaster internal walls and floors that slope, both of which matter when fixing a wall bed.
Living in a block of flats near Kilburn High Road station? Then each piece is planned so it can be carried up and joined together in the room. If your home is one of the older houses near St Peter Elgin Avenue, tall ceilings give wall beds room to reach the cornice. The wider area includes historic houses such as Winfield House, about 1.1 miles east. If your own home is a period one, tall ceilings give wall beds room to reach the cornice.
Maida Vale is about 2 miles south-east of City of Westminster, in the City of Westminster. Maida Vale is part of the area we cover, and the process is the same everywhere we work. Maida Vale is one of 29 places on our list for Westminster.
Every address in W9, NW8 and NW6 is within our area for wall beds. If your home is on a street like The Lane, Hall Road and Hill Road, or close by, we can arrange a design visit for wall beds. Maida Vale is near the A404; on busy main roads, unloading wall beds takes a little planning. We also cover the places around Maida Vale: Westbourne Green (1 mile south), Little Venice (1 mile south-east), Paddington Green (1 mile south-east), Westbourne (1 mile south) and St John's Wood (1 mile north-east). Across the rest of Westminster, our area takes in City of Westminster (2 miles south-east), Marylebone (2 miles east), Soho (3 miles east), Chinatown (3 miles south-east), St James's (3 miles south-east) and Covent Garden (3 miles east).
Landmarks near Maida Vale
The streets we cover here include those near Maida Vale School, The Warrington pub and Cecil Sharp House. For rail, the closest station is Kilburn High Road station, roughly 0.7 miles north of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include O2 Centre (1.5 miles north) and Greek Orthodox Cathedral Treasury Museum (1 mile south). Open spaces near Maida Vale include The Long Water and Greville Place nature reserve.
Flats, blocks and rented homes
For flats on red routes or busy main roads, getting the furniture from the van to the door needs planning. Red routes are run by TfL and have strict stopping rules, so it is worth raising during the design visit.
If you live in a flat, getting the furniture in is planned from the start. We measure the stairs, landings, lift and doorways along with the room itself, so each section is sized to get through.