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Wall beds in Nag's Head, Islington
Fold-down wall beds built into fitted cabinets, for homes in Nag's Head. Every piece is built in our workshop and fitted in your home, with a spray or hand-painted finish.
- More floor space in a studio flat
- A real mattress for visitors
- Hiding the bed when it’s not in use
Wall beds designed for your room
Wall beds for homes in Nag's Head
In a studio flat, a wall bed can make the main room feel much larger. By day, the room is a living space; at night, the bed comes down. Storage and shelving can go on either side or above to make the most of the wall. We make wall beds from MDF made to resist moisture and birch plywood, then spray-painted or hand-painted, and people most often get in touch about room for a desk and a guest bed and shelves or a desk around the bed.
With a large share of homes around Nag's Head built before 1919, lots of bedrooms have solid brick external walls. Those walls can be colder than internal ones, so wardrobes and storage on them are designed with ventilation behind and inside to help avoid condensation. Small back bedrooms and box rooms are common too, and they suit wall beds and other fitted storage well.
After the design visit, we send you a written quote. It sets out the design we have talked through, the materials and the finish, so you know exactly what you are getting.
- Where
- Nag's Head (N7, N19, N4)
- Borough
- Islington
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Made
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Boards and paint
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Working days
- Weekdays; Saturdays on request
- Get in touch
- Our contact form
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
Questions from Nag's Head
Can you fit furniture in a home close to Drayton Park station?
Yes. We cover all of Islington and the rest of London. To get started, you can fill in our short enquiry form with some details about the room.
Do I need permission for fitted furniture in a conservation area?
Usually not: conservation area rules mainly cover the outside of buildings, and fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission. Listed buildings are different, as works inside that affect their character may need listed building consent from the council. If you’re unsure, the council can confirm.
Can you fit a wall bed to a stud wall?
We check that at the design visit. Different walls need different fixings, and the mechanism maker’s instructions set what’s needed.
Can I send pictures before the visit?
Yes. They give us a feel for the space before we visit, along with rough measurements. It helps to show radiators, sockets and anything else on the wall.
How are wall beds priced?
Your quote is written for your room once we’ve visited and measured. Each wall bed is different, so we quote once we have seen the room. To get started, get in touch through our contact form.
Do I need to be at home on fitting day?
We need someone to let us in at the start of the day. It also helps to have someone around at the end, so we can go over the finished furniture together.
What it is made from
Shelves
A few open shelves beside the bed break up a run of doors.
Hand-painted finish
If you’d like the bed to match the skirting or doors, hand painting works well.
Fitting day, step by step
The last stage of the day is the finish. With a spray finish from the workshop, there’s normally only filling and touching up to do in the room; if you chose hand painting, that can be done in the room once the furniture is fitted. The finish is always the one agreed in your quote. Terraced streets in London are often lined with parked cars, so it’s useful to tell us at the measuring visit what’s outside. Unloading is kept short, with sections taken straight inside. Saturdays are possible by arrangement.
- We start with how the room is used and who’ll sleep there. The bed can sit among shelves or beside a desk.
- We visit to measure up and look at what the wall is made of.
- A quote follows, setting out the design and finish, ready to check.
- The bed housing and any shelves are built in our workshop, from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- Fitting day: the cabinet is fitted and the bed checked as it lowers and lifts. We show you how the bed works before we leave.
Before fitting day
- Book any lift and let the concierge or building manager know
- Empty the space we’ll be working in
- Tell us about any meters, fuse boards or boilers in the area
Getting a quote
If you already have something in mind, tell us; if not, we can work it out together at the visit. The design is talked through at the visit, once we’ve measured, and the written quote that follows sets it out. To start, get in touch through our contact form.
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Flats, leases and landlords
In conversions and newer blocks, many internal walls are timber or metal stud with plasterboard. Fixings are chosen to suit whatever the wall is made of, after checking the walls during the design visit.
Landlords furnishing a let use fitted furniture too. The materials are the same as for any home: moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, finished by spray or by hand.
What it costs
There’s no set price, because there’s no set room. What affects it comes down to:
- The finish: spray painted or hand painted
- Doors and drawers, and how many
- Parking near your home
- Stairs, lifts and the route to the room
The inside of the furniture affects the price as well: drawers take more making than shelves, and each rail, divider or pull-out adds to the work. At the design visit, we work out what you need inside.
Getting in touch
These details help when you get in touch:
- Whether it’s a house or a flat, and if there are stairs or a lift
- The postcode, so we can plan the visit
- Anything in the way, like radiators, sockets, switches, a boiler or meters
- Rough measurements: width, height and depth
Rough sizes are fine at the start. We measure everything properly during the design visit. To arrange it, drop us a line using the contact form with some details about the room. The written quote follows the visit.
Honest limits
Our work is the furniture itself: designing it, making it in our workshop and fitting it. In practice, that means:
- Making good the walls after other work
- Lease checks, which are for you and your building’s managers
- Supplying mattresses
Not sure whether your space suits wall beds? You can tell us about the room on our contact form and we’ll tell you. How it works.
What goes into it
- Fold-down bed mechanism
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Hand-painted finish
- Spray-painted finish
- Shelves or a desk alongside
- Birch plywood
Fitted bedroom furniture in Nag's Head
In the streets around Nag's Head, the largest groups of homes date from before 1919 (about 52%) and the years since 2000 (about 19%), on the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures for 2025. It is a good starting point, though every room is still measured, as two homes of the same age rarely match. Nag's Head is partly covered by a conservation area, according to Historic England’s records. The controls in a conservation area are mostly about the outside of buildings, so furniture fitted inside a house does not normally need planning permission. If in doubt, the council’s planning team can confirm. Flats in converted or shared houses account for about 30% of households in the neighbourhood around Nag's Head, based on Census 2021. Conversions often leave rooms in unusual shapes, with partition walls, boxed-in pipes and chimney breasts in odd places, and the way in often goes up shared stairs. If your flat is leasehold, check your lease before anything is fixed to the walls.
Near listed buildings like Odeon Cinema, less than half a mile north-west of the centre of Nag's Head, 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. Witanhurst, about 1.7 miles north-west, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. For a period home anywhere nearby, a bedroom chimney breast and its alcoves often shape where wall beds go. For a flat near Drayton Park station, each piece is planned so it can be carried up and joined together in the room.
Nag's Head is part of the London Borough of Islington, about 1 mile south-east of Highbury. Homes in Nag's Head are part of the area we cover for wall beds. Nag's Head is one of 17 places on our list for Islington.
Here we cover the N7, N19 and N4 postcode area for wall beds. You will find streets here like Penn Road, Tabley Road and Lowman Road, and homes on each of them are within our area for wall beds. If you are just outside Nag's Head, we also cover Holloway (1 mile south), Lower Holloway (1 mile south), Tufnell Park (1 mile west), Upper Holloway (1 mile north-west) and Barnsbury (1 mile south). Elsewhere in Islington, we also cover Farringdon (3 miles south), Clerkenwell (2 miles south), Finsbury (3 miles south-east), St Luke's (2 miles south-east), Angel (2 miles south) and Pentonville (2 miles south).
What’s near Nag's Head
Around Nag's Head, we cover homes near Beacon High, Musical Theatre Academy and Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, among other places. Nag's Head’s nearest station is Drayton Park station, roughly 0.6 miles south-east of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Royal Northern Hospital (close by, under half a mile north-west) and Arsenal Football Club Museum (under half a mile east). Open spaces near Nag's Head include Gillespie Park and Dartmouth Park Hill.