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Peckham Wall Beds
Wall beds in Peckham: fold-down wall beds built into fitted cabinets. We make each piece in our workshop and fit it in your home, with a spray or hand-painted finish.
- A guest room that sits empty most of the time
- A flexible room for a growing family
- Shelves or a desk around the bed
Wall beds for your home in Peckham
Your questions about wall beds in Peckham
Is parking a problem for fitting in Peckham?
It can be, as controlled parking zones cover much of inner London. 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. It’s useful to let us know about parking at the design visit, so the day can be planned around it.
Will a conservation area stop me having wall beds fitted in Peckham?
Not normally. Conservation area controls are largely about how buildings look from outside, so fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission. If your home is listed, internal works that affect its character can require listed building consent, so check with the council first. If you are unsure, the council can confirm.
Do I get to choose the colour?
You choose it. Spray and hand-painted finishes both use the colour you have chosen.
Will you paint the walls around the furniture?
No. Our work is the furniture, not the walls. We finish the furniture itself, as set out in your quote.
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.
What finishes do you offer?
You can choose between two finishes: spray painted or hand painted. Spray painting gives a smooth, even finish, and hand painting is easy to touch up.
Wall beds in Peckham
Many spare rooms are only just big enough for a bed, and a bed that is used a few times a year takes most of the floor. When the bed is folded away, the room is open again, ready for work, exercise or play. Guests still get a proper bed when they stay. Most enquiries start with shelves or a desk around the bed and a studio that works by day and night, and the answer is made in our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, finished by spray or by hand.
A bedroom used as a guest room, a study or a dressing room needs different storage. In Peckham, as anywhere in London, we start by asking what the room is for. The layout, the doors and the inside follow from that. The finish is spray-painted or hand-painted, in a colour agreed with you.
Where other trades are needed, for instance an electrician to move a socket, we point that out. Our quote covers the carpentry: the design, the materials and the finish.
- Place
- Peckham (SE15, SE14, SE5)
- Borough
- Southwark
- Prices
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- Design visit, then a quote in writing
- Made
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Boards and paint
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- Fitting days
- Weekdays; Saturdays on request
- Enquiries
- The contact form
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Bedrooms in Peckham: local notes
In the neighbourhood around Peckham, the largest groups of homes date from before 1919 (about 39%) and the years since 2000 (about 21%), on the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures for 2025. That matters for wall beds, as the build era decides whether a wall is solid brick, lath and plaster, block or plasterboard. The National Heritage List has 75 entries within half a mile of the centre of Peckham. Older homes nearby may have original joinery, shutters or panelling worth keeping, and the furniture can be designed around them rather than over them. About 51% of households in the neighbourhood around Peckham live in purpose-built flats, based on Census 2021. In a block, each section is sized to get up the stairs or into the lift and through the door. Building management rules on lifts, deliveries and working hours are worth checking early.
For an older house near All Saints Church, solid external walls can be cold, so ventilation behind wall beds is part of the design. If your home is as old as some of the listed buildings nearby, like Southwark Adult Education Institute, original features like shutters, panelling and fireplaces are worth designing around. For a listed home, fixing into original features may need listed building consent.
Peckham is about 1 mile south-west of East Dulwich, part of the London Borough of Southwark. Whether your home in Peckham is a terraced house, a flat or a newer build, we measure the room as it is and design around it. Peckham is one of the places in Southwark where we make wall beds.
We work across the SE15, SE14 and SE5 postcode area for wall beds. Streets in the area include Rye Lane, Relf Road and Mona Road, and we cover homes on all of them for wall beds. Peckham sits close to the A2215, and we plan where the van can stop before fitting day. Other places close to Peckham include Nunhead (1 mile south-east), Telegraph Hill (1 mile south-east), South Bermondsey (1 mile north), Surrey Canal (1 mile north-east) and East Dulwich (1 mile south-west). Across the rest of Southwark, our area takes in Herne Hill (2 miles south-west), Bermondsey (2 miles north), Elephant and Castle (2 miles north-west), Bankside (3 miles north-west), Southwark (3 miles north-west) and St George's Fields (3 miles north-west).
Around Peckham
Our area takes in the homes around The Kentish Drovers pub and The St Thomas the Apostle College, among other places. Peckham has its own railway station: Queens Road Peckham station. Nearby you will also find Southwark Adult Education Institute (close by, under half a mile east) and Surrey Quays Shopping Centre (1.8 miles north). Not far away are Bellenden Road Nature Garden.
How fitting day works
Furniture made in a workshop still has to meet the room it’s going into, and fitting day is where that happens. Few walls in older London homes are truly flat or square, so we scribe the edges by hand to follow the wall, 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 we confirm the fitting days in your quote. Clearing the room and the way in beforehand makes the day easier, including pictures on nearby walls. Floors and doorways are protected before anything comes in. Sections are then carried in and assembled.
- 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, as the bed must be fixed securely.
- We send a written quote for the bed cabinet and storage.
- We build and finish everything in our workshop, from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- We fit it in your home, with the mechanism fixed as its maker specifies.
Before we arrive
- Check the building’s rules for trades and lift bookings
- Arrange any electrical changes with your electrician in advance
- Tell us about parking near your home
Ask for a quote
Rough measurements are fine at the start. We measure everything properly at the measuring visit. To get started, fill in our short enquiry form. The written quote follows the visit.
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Is bespoke worth it?
A bespoke wall bed takes more planning than buying a unit online. What you get is one design that suits the room and the way you use it. Ready-made pieces come with a fixed inside layout, which may not suit what you need to store. Fitted furniture is laid out inside around your things.
Your quote is written for your room once we’ve visited and measured. Size, the number of doors and drawers and the internal fittings make the biggest difference to the price.
Why choose Bespoke Carpentry in Peckham
- Saturday work by prior arrangement
- Scribed to uneven walls
- Built in our workshop and fitted in your home
- We work across all London boroughs
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Flats, leases and landlords
In a flat, the route in matters as much as the room. We measure the stairs, landings, lift and doorways along with the room itself, so each section is sized to get through.
If your flat is leasehold, check your lease before fixing furniture to the walls. A lease can require consent from the building owner for alterations, and that is best sorted before fitting day. We cannot give advice on leases, so check it yourself or ask your managing agent.
Why people ask for wall beds in Peckham
Lots of spare rooms have become home offices. The room needs to be an office and still sleep guests, and a fold-down bed lets it do both.
Some of the things we are asked to solve include:
- A home office that also sleeps guests
- A studio that works by day and night
- Storage built around a fold-down bed
- A bed that fills a little-used room
For a flat near Queens Road Peckham station, it’s useful to book the lift and tell the concierge before fitting day.
What to check before you book
- Are the boards named, like MDF or plywood?
- How the doors are hung and adjusted
- How the furniture will be finished, and where
- Whether the route into your home has been checked
Tips worth knowing
The finish lasts best with a little care. These practical tips help:
- Look at your lease before fixing to the walls
- Check mattress size and weight limits
- Measure the clear space in front of the wall
- Plan a cupboard for spare bedding
The mechanism maker’s guidance says how much bedding can stay on the bed when it folds away. Bulky duvets and pillows may need storing nearby.
If you live in a leasehold flat, check your lease before fixing furniture to the walls. We cannot advise on your lease.