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Monken Hadley Wall Beds
Wall beds for your home in Monken Hadley: fold-down wall beds built into fitted cabinets. We visit to measure and talk through the design, make the furniture in our workshop and fit it.
- A guest room that sits empty most of the time
- A flexible room for a growing family
- A study that doubles as a spare room
Wall beds for your home in Monken Hadley
Bedroom storage in Monken Hadley
The biggest shares of homes in the neighbourhood around Monken Hadley were built before 1919 (about 42%) and between 1919 and 1939 (about 25%), in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. Knowing roughly when a home was built helps, because walls and fixings change from one era to the next. There are 55 entries on the National Heritage List within half a mile of the centre of Monken Hadley. Original fireplaces, shutters and panelling are worth keeping where they survive, and the furniture can be designed around them rather than over them. The share of homes built before 1919 around Monken Hadley, about 42%, is well above the figure for Barnet as a whole, about 20%, going by the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax figures. So older-house details are more likely to come into the design of wall beds.
The wider area includes historic houses such as Wyllyotts Manor, about 2.4 miles north. If your own home is a period one, a bedroom chimney breast and its alcoves often shape where wall beds go. If your children go to Monken Hadley CofE Primary School or a school nearby, a mix of drawers and shelves copes with school uniform as well as everything else. If you live near King George's Fields (Monken Hadley), morning light matters, so tall pieces go where they won’t shade the window.
Monken Hadley is within the London Borough of Barnet, about 4 miles south of Finchley. From period terraces to newer flats in Monken Hadley, we measure the room as it is and design around it. We cover places right across Barnet, from the busiest high streets to quiet residential roads.
In EN5 and EN4, the process is the same as anywhere else in London. If your home is on a street such as Dury Road, Lucan Road and Bruce Road, or close by, we can visit to measure up for wall beds. The A1081 runs close to Monken Hadley, so if your home is on a main road, mention it when you get in touch. We also cover Underhill (1 mile south), Hadley Wood (1 mile east), Barnet (1 mile south-east), New Barnet (2 miles south-east) and Cockfosters (2 miles east). We also make wall beds in nearby places such as 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).
Landmarks near Monken Hadley
Around Monken Hadley, we cover homes near Queen Elizabeth's Girls' School, Former King William IV Public House and Susi Earnshaw Theatre School, among other places. The nearest railway station is Hadley Wood station, roughly 1 mile north-east. A little further out are Barnet General Hospital (1 mile south-west) and Spires Shopping Centre (0.5 miles south). For a walk, there is Hadley Green.
About our wall beds in Monken Hadley
Safety starts with the fixing: the mechanism is fixed as its maker specifies, into a wall or floor that is sound enough to hold it. We check the wall and floor at the measuring visit as solid brick, stud walls and plasterboard all need different fixings. If your home has shelves or a desk around the bed and a real mattress for visitors, that’s what wall beds are for, made from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, spray-painted or hand-painted.
A loft conversion is a common way to add a bedroom to a semi or an interwar house, and the slope can take storage cut to its angle. A big part of the housing around Monken Hadley is interwar, semi-detached or detached. Our part starts once the loft has been converted, with each piece scribed to the slope and set level.
The furniture is built in our workshop after you’ve had the quote and decided to go ahead. It describes the design, the materials and the finish agreed at the visit, so every detail can be checked first.
- Where
- Monken Hadley (EN5, EN4)
- Borough
- Barnet
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Made
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Materials and finish
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Fitting days
- Weekdays; Saturdays on request
- Enquiries
- Send us a message
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
Looking after your furniture
None of this takes much effort. What we’d suggest:
- Mention if the wall is a stud wall
- Plan a cupboard for spare bedding
- Keep children away while the bed moves
- Decide who the bed is mainly for
Keep to the mattress size and weight the mechanism allows, because a mattress outside those limits can affect the balance. If you change the mattress later, check it against those limits.
Let us know what the wall is made of if you know. The fixing depends on the wall, and we look at it when we measure.
How fitting day works
You are welcome to ask questions while we work. The design, materials and finish were settled before anything was made, so fitting day is about putting it in place carefully. 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. In a 1930s house with a converted loft, the stairs to the loft room are often steeper than the main flight, so pieces for a loft room are sized for the narrowest point. The main stairs in houses of that age are typically straighter. Each section is assembled and fixed in the room.
- It starts with a short note from you.
- We come to measure and talk through the bed, the storage and the finish.
- A quote in writing follows.
- 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. New paint needs gentle use while it cures.
How to prepare
- Keep pets out of the room and the hallway
- Take anything hanging off the wall we are fitting to
- Point out meters, boilers and fuse boards near the furniture
Starting with a design visit
There’s no price list: each design is priced in writing after we’ve seen the space. Because every room is different, the quote comes after the design visit, once the room is measured and the design talked through. To arrange a visit, tell us about the room on our contact form.
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Materials and finishes
Bed mechanism housing
The mechanism sets the size of the housing and the bed size you choose.
Moisture-resistant MDF
We use moisture-resistant MDF for painted doors and panels, giving the front a smooth finish.
Your questions about wall beds in Monken Hadley
Do you make wall beds for homes in Monken Hadley?
Yes, Monken Hadley is within the area we cover, which takes in all of Barnet and the rest of London. The first step is a design visit, where we measure and talk through the design, followed by a quote.
I live near Hadley Wood station. Is that in your area?
Yes. We cover all of Barnet and the rest of London. To get started, you can fill in our short enquiry form with some details about the room.
What do you do at the measuring visit?
We measure the room, check how level the walls and floors are and discuss the design with you. We will also ask about access and parking.
How much space does a wall bed need?
That depends on the size of the bed. We measure up and make sure the bed has room to fold down.
Will you provide a mattress for the bed?
The mechanism maker sets limits on mattress size and weight. We will explain its limits during the design visit, so you can pick the right one.
Can a wall bed go on any wall?
We check that at the measuring visit. Different walls need different fixings, and the mechanism maker’s instructions set what’s needed.
What affects the cost of wall beds
What it costs comes down to the materials and the time involved. That depends on:
- What goes inside: rails, shelves, drawers and dividers
- Stairs, lifts and the route to the room
- The finish: spray painted or hand painted
- Parking near your home
We don’t publish set prices, because each job is designed for a single room. We measure up, discuss the design and send a quote in writing, naming the materials and finish. To arrange a design visit, use our contact form.
What we need to know
The more you can tell us at the start, the better the design visit goes. It’s useful to include:
- Your postcode and the borough
- Anything in the way, like radiators, sockets, switches, a boiler or meters
- How you want to use the space
- Any ideas or images you’ve saved
Every quote follows a design visit. At the visit, we measure, look at the walls and floors and go through the design with you, then send a written quote. Prices are quoted for your room, once we’ve measured and talked through the design. To book a design visit, drop us a line using the contact form.
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When you need someone else
We don’t treat damp or carry out building work, so these points are worth knowing:
- Lease checks, which are for you and your building’s managers
- Structural work to the wall or floor
- Mattresses, which you choose to suit the mechanism
Not sure whether your space suits wall beds? You can message us from the contact page and we’ll tell you. How it works.
Materials and parts
- Fold-down bed mechanism
- Hand-painted finish
- Birch plywood
- Spray-painted finish
- Shelves or a desk alongside
- Moisture-resistant MDF