Camden · London
Somers Town Wall Beds
Wall beds for your home in Somers Town: fold-down wall beds built into fitted cabinets. Each piece is designed at a visit to your home, made at our workshop and fitted by us.
- A home office that also sleeps guests
- A living room with a bed that folds away
- A guest room that sits empty most of the time
Wall beds designed for your room
Questions from Somers Town
Does a conservation area in or near Somers Town affect fitted furniture?
Not normally. Conservation area controls are mostly concerned with the outside of buildings, so 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 are unsure, the council can confirm.
Can parking be tricky on fitting day in Somers Town?
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 during the design visit.
What materials do you use?
We build with moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, depending on the part and the design. Your quote sets out the materials.
Will you paint the walls around the furniture?
No. Plastering and decorating aren’t part of our work. We paint the furniture itself, by spray or by hand.
Who chooses the colour?
You do. We agree the colour with you, and it’s set out in the quote.
Is a wall bed safe?
A wall bed is designed to be used regularly as long as they’re fixed and used as the maker specifies. We fix the mechanism securely to a sound wall or floor, and you should follow the maker’s guidance on lowering and lifting it.
About our wall beds in Somers Town
Not every mattress suits every wall bed; the mechanism maker sets the size, depth and weight it can take. We can go through what the mechanism allows when we measure, so the mattress you choose fits. We make wall beds from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, finished by spray or by hand, and the things people most often want solved are a hobby room with a bed for guests and hiding the bed when it’s not in use.
Bedrooms in flats often share a wall with the next flat or the communal corridor, and that wall could be solid or plasterboard. With purpose-built flats home to most households around Somers Town, we choose fixings that suit the wall and keep drilling to what’s needed. Tall pieces are fixed back securely.
The written quote puts the design visit in writing: the layout, what goes inside, the materials used and the finish. If something is not quite right, tell us before anything is made.
- Where
- Somers Town (NW1W, NW1, W1T)
- Area
- Camden
- Prices
- Quoted for your room
- First step
- Design visit, then a written quote
- Made
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Materials and finish
- MDF and birch plywood, painted
- When we fit
- Weekdays (Saturdays if arranged)
- Contact
- Our contact form
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
Tips worth knowing
Fresh paintwork takes a while to cure fully, so go gently with it for a while. Beyond that, these tips help:
- Look at your lease before fixing to the walls
- Keep the floor in front clear before lowering the bed
- Check there’s room for the bed to fold down
- Think about where extra bedding will go
The paint needs time to cure fully after fitting. Go easy on the doors and front at first, and wipe the cabinet with a soft cloth only.
Think about who will sleep in the bed and how often. That helps decide its size and the mechanism, and whether a desk or shelves go around it.
Also near Somers Town
More for homes in Somers Town
Wall beds for homes in Somers Town
About 32% of the homes in the streets around Somers Town went up before 1919, and about 23% between 1945 and 1972, 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. Entries on the National Heritage List near the centre of Somers Town include Church of St Pancras (Grade I), less than half a mile south, and All Saints Greek Orthodox Church (Grade I), about 0.6 miles north-west. Works inside a listed home that affect its character, for instance removing original joinery or fixing into it, may need listed building consent from the council. Ask the council’s conservation officer before anything is fixed. Fewer homes around Somers Town date from before 1919 than across Camden: about 32%, against about 49%, in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. We check what the walls are made of during the design visit, as they vary with the age of the home.
If you live near Lewis Cubitt Park, a bedroom facing the green is best kept light, with the furniture on the side walls. If you live in a flat close to London Euston station, it is useful to book the lift and tell the concierge before fitting day. If you live in a period home close to St Mary's Church, a bedroom chimney breast and its alcoves often shape where wall beds go.
Somers Town is about 1 mile south-east of St Pancras, in the London Borough of Camden. From period terraces to newer flats in Somers Town, the furniture is designed around the room as we find it. We cover places right across Camden, from the busiest high streets to quiet residential roads.
We cover every part of NW1W, NW1 and W1T for wall beds. If your home is on a street like Euston Road, Duke's Road and Phoenix Road, or close by, we can visit to measure up for wall beds. Somers Town sits close to the A400 and A501. Nearby, we also make wall beds in Euston (1 mile south), Kings Cross (1 mile east), Agar Town (1 mile north), Bloomsbury (1 mile south-east) and Fitzrovia (1 mile south-west). We also make wall beds in nearby places like Hampstead (3 miles north-west), West Hampstead (3 miles north-west), Greenhill (2 miles north-west), Dartmouth Park (2 miles north), Gospel Oak (2 miles north-west) and Haverstock (2 miles north-west).
Around Somers Town
The streets we cover here include those near Prince Arthur pub, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies and Wellcome Collection, among other places. There is a railway station in Somers Town itself: London Euston station. Other landmarks nearby include Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Obstetric Hospital (a few minutes’ walk south-east) and People’s Museum Somers Town (less than half a mile east). Green spaces nearby include Primrose Hill and Barnsbury Wood.
What happens on fitting day
Finishing comes last. If the furniture was spray painted in the workshop, we fill the fixing holes and touch up on site; hand painting, if that is what you chose, can be done in place once everything is fitted. The finish is always the one agreed in your quote. In a block without a lift, every section goes up the stairs, so it is sized to be manageable. The stair turns and landings set the limit. Once inside, the sections are joined and fixed.
- First, you tell us about the room and how you’d like it to work.
- We visit, measure up and check the wall the bed will fix to.
- We send a quote setting out the design, materials and finish, for you to look over.
- The bed cabinet and any shelves or desk are made at our workshop.
- The bed and cabinets are fitted in your home and the mechanism fixed securely. The finish is sprayed in our workshop or painted by hand on site.
Before fitting day
- If you live in a block, book the lift and tell the building manager
- Tell us about any meters, fuse boards or boilers in the area
- Take down pictures, mirrors and shelves from the wall
Starting with a design visit
Rough measurements are fine at the start. Everything is measured properly when we visit, including how level the floor and ceiling are. To get started, get in touch through our contact form. The written quote follows the visit.
Related advice
Materials and finishes
Shelves
We can add shelving around the bed to make use of the whole wall.
Hand-painted finish
Some people like the softer look of a hand-painted finish in a period room.
Honest limits
Electrics, plumbing, gas, plastering and structural work are not part of what we do. Please bear these in mind too:
- Choosing a mattress for you
- Advice on your lease
- Wiring for lights or chargers
If you’re not sure what’s possible in your room, you can message us from the contact page and we will give you a straight answer before you arrange a visit. Our process from visit to fitting.
What it is made from
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Birch plywood
- Shelves or a desk alongside
- Hand-painted finish
- Fold-down bed mechanism
- Spray-painted finish
Bespoke wall beds or ready-made?
You can buy wall bed units off the shelf, often for less, and they can work in a simple space. They’re made in standard sizes, so they may not suit uneven walls, low ceilings or alcoves. Ours is made to the room you have. In a flat, walls are often broken up by radiators, doors and sockets, and standard widths rarely fit between them. Built-in pieces are sized for each stretch of wall.
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. We will talk through what you need inside during the design visit, then set it out in the quote.
What you get with us
- Finished by spray or by hand
- Over 300 projects completed
- Built from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood
- Work across the whole of London
Read how bespoke compares with ready-made and how to compare quotes.