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Wall beds in South Street, Bromley
Wall beds for your home in South Street: fold-down wall beds built into fitted cabinets. We visit to measure and talk through the design, make the furniture in our workshop and fit it.
- A playroom that can sleep visitors
- Shelves or a desk around the bed
- Hiding the bed when it’s not in use
Wall beds for your home in South Street
How we make wall beds for South Street
Our wall beds are made for homes in South Street and all over London. It starts with a design visit to measure the room and check the wall, followed by a quote. The cabinets are built in our workshop and fitted in your home. The time the fitting takes depends on the size of the bed and the cabinets around it, and your quote sets out the fitting days, so you’ll know beforehand. We make wall beds from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, spray-painted or hand-painted, and people most often get in touch about a home office that also sleeps guests and a spare room that’s rarely slept in.
Many 1930s houses have had a loft conversion, adding a bedroom under a sloping ceiling, and that slope can be used for storage built to the angle. A big part of the housing around South Street is interwar, semi-detached or detached. We work in lofts that are already converted, and the furniture is scribed to the slope and the walls.
The quote names the materials: moisture-resistant MDF, birch plywood or both, depending on the design. It also says how the furniture will be finished: spray painted or hand painted.
- Location
- South Street (TN16)
- Borough
- Bromley
- Prices
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- Design visit, then a quote in writing
- Making
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Materials and finish
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Fitting days
- Weekdays; Saturdays on request
- Contact
- The contact form
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
Bedroom storage in South Street
Homes built between 1945 and 1972 make up about 29% of the housing in the streets around South Street, with about 25% built between 1973 and 1999, in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. That matters for wall beds, as the build era decides whether a wall is solid brick, lath and plaster, block or plasterboard. A conservation area lies within about a quarter of a mile of the centre of South Street, going by Historic England’s data. Planning controls in conservation areas are mainly concerned with the outside of buildings, so fitting furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need permission. The council can confirm if you’re not sure. Many London boroughs run controlled parking zones, and Bromley sets its own rules. If parking near you is controlled, a visitor permit or a bay suspension may be needed, and the council arranges suspensions, often with notice. Let us know what the parking is like at the measuring visit.
Near listed buildings like Cottage Orne, less than half a mile south-east of the centre of South Street, older homes may keep original joinery that wall beds can be designed around. For a listed home, fixing into original features may need listed building consent. Titsey Place, about 2.1 miles south-west, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. If your own home is a period one, tall ceilings give wall beds room to reach the cornice.
South Street is about 6 miles north of Orpington, part of the London Borough of Bromley. South Street is part of the area we cover, and the process is the same everywhere we work. We list South Street among 49 places we cover in Bromley.
Every home in TN16 is covered for wall beds. Other parts of Bromley we cover include Orpington (6 miles north), Bromley (7 miles north), Beckenham (8 miles north-west), St Mary Cray (7 miles north), Chislehurst (8 miles north) and Shortlands (7 miles north).
Landmarks near South Street
For rail, the closest station is Oxted station, roughly 3.7 miles south-west of the centre. Open spaces near South Street include Betsom's Hill.
Questions we’re often asked
Does a conservation area in or near South Street affect fitted furniture?
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, works inside that affect its character can need listed building consent, so check with the council first. The council’s planning or conservation team can tell you if in doubt.
Can you fit furniture in a home close to Oxted station?
Yes, homes across Bromley and the rest of London are within the area we cover. You can send us a few details through our contact form to arrange a design visit, and tell us about parking and access at the same time.
How do you get large furniture into a flat?
It is made in sections. At the design visit, we measure the route as well as the room.
How is the furniture painted?
There are two ways to finish it: spray painted or hand painted. Spray painting gives a smooth, even finish, and hand painting is easy to touch up.
What if the wall is cold or damp?
It can be done with some care: ventilation behind and inside the furniture helps avoid condensation and mould. We don’t treat damp, so any damp should be sorted before fitting day.
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.
Flats, conversions and leaseholders
Conversions and newer flats often have stud walls rather than solid brick. Fixings are chosen to suit whatever the wall is made of.
Many London terraces have been converted into flats, which often brings a shared hall and tight turns on the stairs. We plan the size of each section around it.
From workshop to your room
Furniture made in a workshop still has to meet the room it is going into, and fitting day is where that happens. Few walls in older London homes are truly flat or square, so each edge that meets a wall is scribed to follow it. How long the fitting itself takes depends on the bed, the cabinets and the wall it fixes to, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. On fitting day, the sections are carried in, assembled, scribed to the wall and levelled. Hand-painted furniture can be finished on site; spray-painted pieces arrive finished from the workshop. Saturday fitting is possible by arrangement.
- You contact us about a wall bed for a spare room or studio.
- We visit to measure the room and the way in, from the front door to the room itself. Mention parking as well, since vans often need a permit or a paid bay.
- Your written quote sets out the design, materials and finish.
- The cabinet is made at our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, in sections sized for the route.
- We carry the sections in, assemble them and fix the mechanism as its maker specifies, with a spray-painted or hand-painted finish.
Before fitting day
- Book any lift and let the concierge or building manager know
- Keep pets in another room while we work
- Empty the space we will be working in
Starting with a design visit
If you know what you want, say so; 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, send us a few details through our contact form.
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Materials and finishes
Hand-painted finish
A hand-painted finish can be done on site, once it is fitted. It is easy to touch up later.
Spray-painted finish
You choose the colour, and we apply it in the workshop.
The problems wall beds solve
Lots of spare rooms have become home offices. The room needs to be an office and still sleep guests, and a wall bed makes that possible.
Most of the enquiries we get are about needs like these:
- A living room with a bed that folds away
- A guest room that sits empty most of the time
- A hobby room with a bed for guests
- A storage wall with a bed inside
If you live in a period home close to Church of St Mary the Virgin, a bedroom chimney breast and its alcoves often shape where wall beds go.
Before you hire any carpenter
- How they’ll get the furniture into the room
- Will the quote be in writing?
- Will other trades be needed, and who arranges them?
- Where they’ll park and unload
What affects the cost of wall beds
There’s no set price, because there’s no set room. What affects it comes down to:
- Access to the room, like stairs, lifts and narrow halls
- Awkward walls, sloping ceilings and uneven floors
- The finish: spray painted or hand painted
- Hanging rails, shelves, drawers and other fittings inside
We do not publish set prices, because every piece is designed for one room. Instead, we measure, talk through the design and then quote in writing, naming the materials and finish. To start, tell us about the room on our contact form.
Before the design visit
What helps most when you first contact us:
- Pictures of styles you like, if you have any
- Approximate measurements of the space
- Photos of the whole wall or room, including the floor and ceiling
- Anything fixed to the wall that the furniture needs to work around
Rough sizes are fine at the start. Everything is measured properly when we visit, along with the walls, floor and ceiling. To get started, drop us a line using the contact form and tell us about the room. You receive a quote in writing after the visit.