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Wall Beds in Mitcham
Wall beds for your home in Mitcham: 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.
- A hobby room with a bed for guests
- A guest room that sits empty most of the time
- A living room with a bed that folds away
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Fitting day, step by step
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 fitting takes depends on the design and how much storage goes around the bed, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. Interwar houses typically have a straight run of stairs and a reasonable hallway, though we still measure the route in along with the room itself. Wall beds arrive in sections and are assembled in place.
- You get in touch with a few details about the room. Mention who the bed is for.
- The design visit covers measuring, the wall and the layout. What the wall is made of matters, as the bed has to be fixed securely.
- A written quote is sent to you.
- The cabinets are built in our workshop.
- The wall bed is fitted in your home, with the mechanism fixed as its maker specifies.
Before we arrive
- Clear the walls of pictures and shelves
- Check the building’s rules for trades and lift bookings
- Keep pets out of the room and the hallway
Starting with a design visit
If you already have something in mind, tell us; if not, we can work it out together at the visit. At the design visit, we measure up and talk the design through with you, and the written quote then sets it out. To start, use our contact form.
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Wall beds in Mitcham
A wall bed, sometimes called a Murphy bed, lifts up into a cabinet during the day and is lowered again at night. It lets one room do two jobs, like a spare room that is also a study. We build the cabinet around the bed to suit the room and finish it to match. If your home has a studio that works by day and night and a home office that also sleeps guests, wall beds made from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, finished by spray or by hand can solve it.
Many 1930s houses have had a loft conversion, adding a bedroom under a sloping ceiling, and the slope can take storage cut to its angle. A big part of the housing around Mitcham is interwar, semi-detached or detached. We work in lofts that are already converted, and the furniture is scribed to the slope and the walls.
The written quote is your record of the job. It sets out the wall bed designed for your room, what it is made from and how it’s finished, and the workshop works from it.
- Where
- Mitcham (CR4, SW16, SM4)
- Borough
- Merton
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- First step
- We visit, measure, then quote
- Making
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Materials and finish
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Fitting days
- Monday to Friday; Saturdays by prior arrangement
- Enquiries
- Our contact form
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Nearby places to Mitcham
What else we make in Mitcham
FAQs: wall beds in Mitcham
Do you cover homes near Mitcham Eastfields station?
Yes, homes across Merton and the rest of London are within the area we cover. To get started, you can send us a few details through our contact form with a few details about the room.
Is parking a problem for fitting in Mitcham?
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. Let us know what parking is near you at the design visit, and we’ll plan around it.
How long will the wall bed take to fit?
How long fitting takes depends on the bed, the cabinets and the wall it fixes to, and your quote sets out the fitting days.
Do you supply the mattress?
What matters most is that the mattress suits the mechanism. We go through the mechanism’s limits when we measure, so you can pick the right one.
Can you fit a wall bed to a stud wall?
That depends on what the wall and floor are made of. The mechanism must be fixed to a sound wall or floor, as its maker specifies, and we look at this when we measure.
What space does a fold-down bed take up?
The bed needs room in front of it to come down, as well as the depth of the cabinet itself. We measure this during the design visit and plan the layout around it.
Flats, conversions and leaseholders
In a managed block, the building manager or concierge may need notice before we arrive. Lifts sometimes need to be booked, and the lift size helps decide how big each section can be. Mention it when you get in touch.
If your building is on a red route or a busy main road, getting the furniture from the van to the door needs planning. TfL runs the red routes, and the stopping rules are strict, so tell us about it during the design visit.
What wall beds can’t fix
We don’t treat damp or carry out building work, so these points are worth knowing:
- Advice on your lease
- Strengthening or rebuilding a wall
- Plastering or decorating the room
If you are not sure what’s possible in your room, you can message us from the contact page and we will give you a straight answer before you arrange a visit. How a job runs, step by step.
What goes into it
- Shelves or a desk alongside
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Birch plywood
- Spray-painted finish
- Fold-down bed mechanism
- Hand-painted finish
Bespoke wall beds or ready-made?
You can buy wall bed units off the shelf, often for less, and they can work in a simple space. They come in set sizes and finishes and rarely allow for an uneven wall or an alcove. A bespoke cabinet is built for the room. Standard widths rarely add up to the length of a real wall, which fitted furniture avoids. It can use the full height too.
There’s no price list: each design is priced in writing after we’ve seen the space. A larger piece means more material and more time. After that, the number of doors and drawers, the internal fittings and the finish all play a part.
Why us?
- Made in our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Work across the whole of London
- Over 300 projects completed
- Made in moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood
Take a look at our comparison of bespoke and off-the-shelf and how to compare quotes.
Flat-pack or bespoke?
If you are handy, a simple shelf or a standard wardrobe in a square room is a reasonable DIY job. Sloping ceilings, uneven floors and lath-and-plaster walls make it harder, because scribing and the right fixings start to matter.
Cost matters, and it’s fair to say so: off-the-shelf furniture typically costs less up front. Bespoke earns its place where the room is tricky, space is tight or you want the furniture to look part of the house.
Fitted bedroom furniture in Mitcham
About 49% of the homes in the streets around Mitcham went up between 1919 and 1939, and about 14% between 1945 and 1972, on the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures for 2025. The age of a home tells us a lot about its walls, floors and ceilings, and so about how wall beds are fixed and fitted. Entries on the National Heritage List near the centre of Mitcham include Base of Windmill at Mill House (Grade II), about 0.5 miles south-east, and Prospect House (Grade II), about 0.5 miles north-west. Works inside a listed home that affect its character, for instance removing original joinery or fixing into it, may need listed building consent from the council. Check with the council’s conservation officer first. The Ultra Low Emission Zone has covered all of London since it reached the outer boroughs on 29 August 2023. So any van that delivers or fits furniture in Mitcham is covered by it. How the van gets to your door is planned during the design visit.
If you live in a flat close to Mitcham Eastfields station, the lift, the stair turns and the front door all set the largest piece that can come in. Close to Cranmer Green? A bedroom facing the green is best kept light, with the furniture on the side walls. If your children go to St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic Primary School or a school nearby, a mix of drawers and shelves copes with school uniform as well as everything else.
Mitcham is within the London Borough of Merton, about 3 miles north-west of Wimbledon. We cover Mitcham as part of our work across Merton. Across Merton, we cover Mitcham, along with the rest of the borough.
Design visits and fitting in CR4, SW16 and SM4 work the same way as everywhere else we cover. If your home is on a street such as Kings Road, Baker Lane and Manor Road, or close by, we can visit to measure up for wall beds. Other places close to Mitcham include Hackbridge (1 mile north), Eastfields (1 mile north), Colliers Wood (1 mile north-west), Merton Abbey (2 miles north-west) and Furzedown (2 miles north). Across the rest of Merton, our area takes in Wimbledon (3 miles north-west), Morden (2 miles west), South Wimbledon (2 miles north-west), Wimbledon Chase (3 miles west), Merton Park (2 miles west) and Crooked Billet (4 miles north-west).
Around Mitcham
Our area takes in the homes around The Archbishop Lanfranc School, St Mark's Church of England Academy and The White Lion of Mortimer pub, among other places. Mitcham’s nearest station is Mitcham Eastfields station, about 0.5 miles north of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Wilson Hospital (0.5 miles south-west) and Wandle Industrial Museum (0.7 miles west).