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Newington Green Wall Beds
Wall beds for your home in Newington Green: fold-down wall beds built into fitted cabinets. Each piece is designed at a visit to your home, made in our workshop and fitted by us.
- A living room with a bed that folds away
- A spare room that is rarely slept in
- Shelves or a desk around the bed
Wall beds designed for your room
How we make wall beds for Newington Green
Many spare rooms are only just big enough for a bed, and a bed that’s used a few times a year takes most of the floor. When the bed is folded away, the room is open again for a desk, a hobby or just space. When guests come, the bed folds down. Most enquiries start with a studio that works by day and night and a guest bed that disappears in the day; the furniture is made from birch ply and moisture-resistant MDF, painted by hand or sprayed.
Floors in older houses often slope, which matters around Newington Green, as a large share of homes there date from before 1919. Fitted furniture sits on a plinth or adjustable feet set level, so doors close square and the gaps stay even. Where the wall bows, the edge is scribed to follow it.
The written quote puts the design visit in writing: the layout, what goes inside, the materials used and the finish. If you’d like to change anything, it is easier before the furniture is made.
- Where
- Newington Green (N16, N1, N5)
- Borough
- Islington
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- First step
- Design visit, then a written quote
- Made
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Boards and paint
- MDF and birch plywood, painted
- Fitting days
- Weekdays (Saturdays if arranged)
- Enquiries
- Send us a message
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
Common questions about wall beds
My home in Newington Green is a flat. How do you get the furniture in?
At the design visit, we measure the way in along with the room itself. The furniture is made in sections that fit the stairs and lift, and put together in the room. It is useful to check any building rules and your lease before fitting day.
Is Newington Green in the area you cover for wall beds?
Yes, we work across Islington, Newington Green included, and across the rest of London. You can tell us about the room on our contact form to arrange a design visit.
Does someone need to be home during the fitting?
We need access, so someone has to let us in. You don’t need to watch us work, but it helps to be around at the end.
Do you do the electrics?
No. Sockets, switches and lighting are for your electrician, and some electrical work in homes is covered by Part P of the Building Regulations. We plan the furniture around where they’ll go.
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.
Is a wall bed safe for everyday use?
A secure fixing and careful use are what matter. We fix the mechanism as its maker specifies; you lower it steadily with the floor clear.
Flat-pack or bespoke?
Off-the-shelf furniture can be a sensible choice. In a room with square walls and standard sizes, it can work well.
What you pay for with bespoke is mainly the fit: edges scribed to the wall, a level base on a sloping floor and a neat line where the furniture meets the ceiling. Off-the-shelf furniture can’t typically do that in an older room.
Flats, blocks and rented homes
Leaseholders should check the lease before anything is fixed to the walls. Some leases need the building owner’s consent for alterations. We can’t advise on your lease.
For a rented home, access for the design visit and fitting day has to be agreed with the tenants, at times that suit them. An agent can arrange access for you.
Places near Newington Green
More for homes in Newington Green
Newington Green homes and wall beds
In the streets around Newington Green, the largest groups of homes date from before 1919 (about 53%) and between 1945 and 1972 (about 22%), 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. Near the centre of Newington Green, Historic England’s list includes Church of St Matthias (Grade I), less than half a mile east, and St Paul's Church (Grade II*), under half a mile south. Where a home is listed, listed building consent can be needed for inside works that affect its character, like fixing into original panelling. An early word with the council’s conservation officer is the best first step. Purpose-built flats are home to about 48% of households in the area around Newington Green, according to Census 2021. For a flat, wall beds are made in sections sized for the stairs, the lift and the doors. Building management rules on lifts, deliveries and working hours are worth checking early.
For families living near Newington Green Primary School, a mix of drawers and shelves copes with school uniform as well as everything else. Close to Highbury Fields? Wall beds are normally planned on the walls away from the window, so the light and the view stay. Sutton House, about 1.5 miles east, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. If your own home is a period one, solid external walls can be cold, so ventilation behind wall beds is part of the design.
Newington Green is in the London Borough of Islington, about 1 mile west of Highbury. Whether your home in Newington Green is a terraced house, a flat or a newer build, the furniture is designed around the room as we find it. Newington Green is one of the places in Islington where we make wall beds, and the borough has 17 places on our list.
In N16, N1 and N5, the process is the same as anywhere else in London. Whether you live on a street like Dove Road, Burma Road and Piano Lane or on one nearby, we can visit to measure up for wall beds. Newington Green sits close to the A1199, and we plan where the van can stop before fitting day. We also cover Mildmay (1 mile south), Highbury (1 mile west), Canonbury (1 mile south), De Beauvoir Town (1 mile south) and Kingsland (1 mile south-east). Across the rest of Islington, our area takes in Farringdon (2 miles south), Clerkenwell (2 miles south-west), Finsbury (2 miles south), St Luke's (2 miles south), Angel (2 miles south-west) and Upper Holloway (2 miles north-west).
What’s near Newington Green
Our area takes in the homes around Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form, Army and Navy pub and Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form. Newington Green has its own railway station: Canonbury station. A little further out are German Hospital (0.8 miles east) and Hackney Walk (1.5 miles east). Green spaces nearby include Gillespie Park.
What affects the price in Newington Green
Several things affect the price:
- Hanging rails, shelves, drawers and other fittings inside
- The overall size of the piece
- The number of doors and drawers
- Parking and unloading on your street
Every room is priced on its own, because the size, the layout and the finish all vary. A spray finish and a hand-painted finish involve different work, and that shows in the price. You will see the figure in your written quote, after the design visit.
Helping us understand the room
There’s no need for exact sizes or plans. It is enough to send:
- Any ideas or images you have saved
- Rough measurements, even if they’re only to the nearest few centimetres
- The type of home and how the room is reached
- A few photos of the space, taken from the doorway and from each corner
For a quote for wall beds in Newington Green, message us from the contact page. Let us know the room and the rough idea. We’ll arrange a design visit, then send a written quote.
Fitting day, step by step
Before anything is fixed, we set the furniture level. Where the floor slopes, we bring the furniture up to level on adjustable feet or a plinth, which keeps the lines straight. Only then is it fixed to the wall, with fixings chosen to suit brick, lath and plaster or plasterboard. On fitting day in an older house, the main job is scribing to walls and levelling on floors that slope, so each piece is trimmed and adjusted on site. We protect the floors and keep dust to a minimum. Parking can be tight on terraced streets, so tell us about permits and bays during the design visit.
- You let us know about the room.
- 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.
- We fit everything in your home and check the bed lowers and lifts smoothly.
Before we arrive
- Clear the hallway and stairs so the sections can come through
- Let us know if your street is in a controlled parking zone
- Take down pictures, mirrors and shelves from the wall
Ask for a quote
If you already have something in mind, tell us; if you don’t, that is fine, and we can work it out together. The design is talked through at the visit, once we’ve measured, and the written quote that follows sets it out. To arrange a visit, tell us about the room on our contact form.
Related advice
Honest limits
Our work is the furniture itself: designing it, making it in our workshop and fitting it. In practice, that means:
- Decorating around the cabinet
- Wiring for lights or chargers
- Structural work to the wall or floor
If you are not sure what’s possible in your room, you can send us a few details through our contact form and we will give you a straight answer. How it works.
What it is made from
- Hand-painted finish
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Spray-painted finish
- Fold-down bed mechanism
- Birch plywood
- Shelves or a desk alongside