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Wall Beds in Orpington
In Orpington, we design wall beds around the room you actually have. We design your wall bed at a visit to your home, make it in our workshop and fit it.
- A home office that also sleeps guests
- A guest room that sits empty most of the time
- Hiding the bed when it is not in use
Wall beds for your home in Orpington
What wall beds can’t fix
As carpenters, we leave some work to other trades. These are worth knowing before you plan:
- Advice on your lease
- Electrical work for reading lights
- Plastering or decorating the room
If you are not sure what’s possible in your room, you can drop us a line using the contact form and we’ll give you a straight answer before you arrange a visit. How it works.
Materials and parts
- Birch plywood
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Hand-painted finish
- Shelves or a desk alongside
- Spray-painted finish
- Fold-down bed mechanism
Wall beds in Orpington
Studio flats benefit more than most from a bed that folds away. By day, the room is a living space, and at night it becomes a bedroom. Storage and shelving can go on either side or above, so the whole wall works hard. Typical reasons to get in touch are a storage wall with a bed inside and room for a desk and a guest bed, and the answer is made in our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, finished by spray or by hand.
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. Around Orpington, interwar houses, semis and detached homes make up a large part of the housing. Our part starts once the loft has been converted, with each piece scribed to the slope and set level.
If the job needs another trade, such as an electrician or a plumber, we will tell you. The quote itself covers our work, from the design to the materials and finish.
- Where
- Orpington (BR5, BR6, BR7, DA14)
- Borough
- Bromley
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- Design visit, then a quote in writing
- Made
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Made from
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Fitting days
- Monday to Friday; Saturdays by prior arrangement
- Get in touch
- The contact form
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Neighbourhoods near Orpington
What else we make in Orpington
Why bespoke in Orpington?
Standard units seldom reach the ceiling or fit wall to wall. We can build to the full height and width and fill the rest of the wall with storage. Even in a 1930s house, walls and floors aren’t perfectly true, and standalone units can lean or gap. Built-in pieces are adjusted to the room on site.
Awkward rooms take more time: walls that lean, floors that slope and sloping ceilings all mean more scribing and cutting. That is reflected in the quote, which we write after seeing the room.
Why work with us in Orpington
- We work across all London boroughs
- Every quote follows a design visit
- Spray painted or hand painted, in the colour you choose
- More than 300 projects completed
Read bespoke vs off-the-shelf and what to look for in a quote.
Common questions about wall beds
Can parking be tricky on fitting day in Orpington?
It depends on the street, as many London boroughs run controlled parking zones. A van may need a visitor permit, a paid bay or a parking bay suspension, which the council arranges, often with notice. Let us know what parking is near you at the measuring visit.
Do you cover homes near St Mary Cray station?
Yes. We cover all of Bromley and the rest of London. You can message us from the contact page to arrange a design visit.
How is the furniture painted?
There are two choices: a spray finish from the workshop, which is smooth and even, or hand painting, which can be done in your home. Your quote sets out which you have chosen.
Do I choose the paint colour?
You do. We agree the colour with you.
Do I need to be in when you fit?
Someone needs to be there to let us in. You do not need to watch us work, but it helps to be around at the end.
Is a mattress included with the wall bed?
What matters most is that the mattress suits the mechanism. We’ll explain its limits during the design visit, so you can pick the right one.
How fitting works for wall beds
However carefully a piece is made in the workshop, it still has to meet the room, and that happens on fitting day. Walls in older homes are rarely flat or square, so each edge that meets a wall is scribed to follow it, closing the gaps a standard unit would leave. How long the fitting itself takes depends on the design and how much storage goes around the bed, and the fitting days are agreed in your quote. In a 1920s or 1930s house, the hall and stairs are usually straightforward, but the route in is still measured, not just the room. Wall beds arrive in sections and are assembled in place.
- We start with how the room is used and who’ll sleep there. The bed can sit among shelves or beside a desk.
- At the design visit we measure the room and check the wall and floor, as the bed must be fixed securely.
- A quote follows, setting out the design and finish, ready to check.
- The bed housing and any shelves are made at our workshop.
- 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.
Getting ready for fitting day
- Take anything hanging off the wall we’re fitting to
- Let us know where the boiler and meters are
- Move anything in the hall or on the stairs out of the way
Arranging a design visit
To get a quote, send us a few details through our contact form and tell us which room you have in mind and roughly what you’d like. We then arrange a design visit to measure and talk through the design, and send you a written quote afterwards.
Advice
Bedroom storage in Orpington
The biggest shares of homes in the area around Orpington were built between 1919 and 1939 (about 39%) and between 1945 and 1972 (about 31%), in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. It is a good starting point, though every room is still measured, as two homes of the same age rarely match. The National Heritage List records 10 entries within half a mile of the centre of Orpington. Being near listed buildings does not make a home listed, and you can check any address on Historic England’s list. Around a third of the homes in the streets around Orpington (about 31%) were built between 1945 and 1972, according to Valuation Office Agency council tax figures (2025). Post-war bedrooms are usually simple shapes, which suits fitted furniture along a whole wall, with fixings chosen for concrete, block or brick.
If you live near Jubilee Country Park, keeping wall beds off the window wall keeps the room bright. For a family home near Perry Hall Primary School, a mix of drawers and shelves copes with school uniform as well as everything else. Living in a block of flats near St Mary Cray station? Then the lift, the stair turns and the front door all set the largest piece that can come in.
Orpington is in the London Borough of Bromley. Wherever you are in Orpington, the process is the same: we visit and measure, send a quote in writing, make the furniture in our workshop and fit it. Our work takes in places right across Bromley, large and small.
Every home in BR5, BR6, BR7 and DA14 is within our area for wall beds. Whether you live on a street like High Street, Furzehill Square and Station Road or on one nearby, we can arrange a design visit for wall beds. Orpington is near the A224 and B258, so if your home is on a main road, mention it when you get in touch. Other places close to Orpington include Poverest (1 mile north), Derry Downs (1 mile east), St Mary Cray (1 mile north), St Paul's Cray (1 mile north) and Goddington (1 mile south). Across the rest of Bromley, our area takes in Bromley (4 miles west), Beckenham (6 miles west), Chislehurst (3 miles north-west), Penge (7 miles west), Anerley (8 miles west) and Crystal Palace (8 miles west). Orpington is one of the larger places we cover in Bromley.
Near you in Orpington
The streets we cover here include those near The Royal Albert pub, Harris Academy Orpington and The Priory School, among other places. The closest station to Orpington is St Mary Cray station, roughly 0.7 miles north. Well-known places in the area include London Borough of Bromley Museum (within half a mile south) and Orpington Hospital (1.5 miles south). Green spaces nearby include The Warren.
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. Let us know about it when you get in touch.
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 at the design visit.
Boards, parts and paint
Moisture-resistant MDF
We use moisture-resistant MDF for painted doors and panels for a clean, even look.
Shelves
Open shelves soften a wall of cupboards and keep it from feeling heavy.