Tower Hamlets · London
Wall Beds in Spitalfields
Few London rooms are perfectly square, and we scribe the furniture to follow the walls. We make wall beds for homes in Spitalfields, each designed at a visit to your home.
- A hobby room with a bed for guests
- A real mattress for visitors
- A guest bed that disappears in the day
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How fitting day works
When we arrive on fitting day, the first job is covering the floors and protecting the way in from the front door. The sections built in our workshop come in next, a piece at a time. How long the fitting takes depends on the design and how much storage goes around the bed, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. Newer blocks often have concierge desks, entry systems and rules on lift booking, so it helps to sort them out in advance. Wall beds are made in sections sized for the lift and doors.
- You get in touch and let us know about the room and how often the bed is used. A desk or shelving around the bed can be part of it.
- We visit, measure up and check the wall the bed will fix to.
- You get a quote in writing for the bed cabinet and any storage around it, for you to look over.
- We build and finish the bed housing and storage in 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.
How to prepare
- Leave a clear route from the front door to the room
- Tell us about parking near your home
- Get any new sockets or wiring done by your electrician before fitting day
How to get a quote
To get a quote, tell us about the room on 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 a quote in writing follows.
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Wall beds in Spitalfields
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, ready for work, exercise or play. When guests come, the bed folds down. People typically come to us about hiding the bed when it’s not in use and somewhere comfortable for guests to sleep; the furniture is made from MDF made to resist moisture and birch plywood, then spray-painted or hand-painted.
Bedrooms in homes built since 2000 sometimes have big windows that take up much of a wall, which leaves fewer walls for storage. That’s worth planning for around Spitalfields, where many homes date from 2000 onwards, so we make the most of the walls you have. Corners are designed in rather than left as dead space.
You get the quote in writing, so you can read it at your own pace and talk it over at home. It covers the design, materials and finish agreed at the visit.
- Location
- Spitalfields (E1, EC2A, E1W)
- Borough
- Tower Hamlets
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- We visit, measure, then quote
- Making
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Made from
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- Working days
- Weekdays; Saturdays on request
- Get in touch
- Our contact form
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
Could you do it yourself?
Long shelves are where off-the-shelf often struggles. How much a shelf bends depends on its span, depth and load, and long runs need a thicker shelf, a lip along the front or a support. We design shelves with that in mind.
A confident DIYer can manage simple shelves or a standard wardrobe in a square room. Sloping ceilings, uneven floors and lath-and-plaster walls make it harder, because scribing and the right fixings start to matter.
What affects the cost of wall beds
There’s no set price, because there is no set room. What affects it comes down to:
- Whether you choose a spray or hand-painted finish
- Parking near your home
- How square the room is
- The width and height of the space
Every piece is quoted for your room after the design visit. Size, the number of doors and drawers and the internal fittings make the biggest difference to the price.
Before the design visit
You don’t need exact measurements or a plan. It is enough to send:
- Where you live, with the postcode
- Any ideas or images you’ve saved
- Rough measurements: width, height and depth
- Whether it’s a house or a flat, and if there are stairs or a lift
It helps to see the room before we come. A few pictures showing the walls, the corners and where the ceiling meets them give us a good feel for the space, along with rough measurements. To send them over, use our contact form, and we will arrange a design visit.
What prompts wall beds in Spitalfields
Working from home has changed how many spare rooms are used. People want a desk by day and a bed for visitors, and a wall bed makes that possible.
A few of the things people ask us to solve include:
- A bed that looks like cupboards by day
- More floor space in a studio flat
- A study that doubles as a spare room
- A proper bed instead of a sofa bed
For an older house near Christ Church, tall ceilings give wall beds room to reach the cornice.
Questions to ask before you hire anyone
- Whether they can show you real projects they’ve done
- Will other trades be needed, and who arranges them?
- How the furniture will be finished, and where
- Have they measured the stairs, lift and doorways?
Fitted bedroom furniture in Spitalfields
In the area around Spitalfields, the largest groups of homes date from the years since 2000 (about 45%) and before 1919 (about 19%), according to Valuation Office Agency council tax figures (2025). For carpentry, the era of a house is a useful clue to how square its rooms are and what its walls are made of. Part of Spitalfields is in the Wentworth Street Conservation Area, according to Historic England’s records. The controls in a conservation area are mostly about the outside of buildings, so furniture fitted inside a house does not normally need planning permission. If you want to be certain, ask the council’s planning team. TfL’s Ultra Low Emission Zone covers every part of London, Tower Hamlets included. It applies to the vans that deliver and fit furniture in Spitalfields, as it does anywhere else in London. Parking and access are planned at the measuring visit.
If you live near Finsbury Circus, morning light matters, so tall pieces go where they won’t shade the window. The wider area includes historic houses such as Mansion House, about 0.7 miles west. For a period home anywhere nearby, a bedroom chimney breast and its alcoves often shape where wall beds go.
Spitalfields is part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, about 1 mile east of Whitechapel. Design visits and fitting in Spitalfields can be on a Saturday, by arrangement. Spitalfields is one of the places in Tower Hamlets where we make wall beds.
In E1, EC2A and E1W, the process is the same as anywhere else in London. You’ll find streets here like New Road, Mark Lane and Bell Lane, and we cover homes on all of them for wall beds. The A10 and A1202 runs close to Spitalfields, so if your home is on a main road, mention it when you contact us. Neighbouring places we cover for wall beds include Whitechapel (1 mile east), Aldgate (1 mile south-west), Bishopsgate (1 mile west), Tower Hill (1 mile south) and Shoreditch (1 mile north). Across the rest of Tower Hamlets, our area takes in Cambridge Heath (2 miles north-east), Mile End (2 miles east), Bow Common (2 miles east), Bromley (3 miles east), Limehouse (2 miles east) and Old Ford (3 miles north-east). Being one of the larger places in Tower Hamlets, Spitalfields is covered for wall beds and everything else we make.
Local landmarks in Spitalfields
In Spitalfields, that includes homes near Kings Stores pub, Bishopsgate Institute Special Collections and Archives and St Mary-at-Hill and the streets around them. You’ll also find Canon Barnett Primary School (close by, under half a mile east) and London Enterprise Academy (0.5 miles east). There’s a railway station in Spitalfields itself: London Liverpool Street station. A little further out are Tower of London (0.6 miles south) and Gabriel's Wharf (1.5 miles west). Open spaces near Spitalfields include Tower Hill.
Practical tips
Looking after painted furniture is simple. These habits help most:
- Allow space for pillows and duvets
- Lower and lift the bed steadily
- Mention if the wall is a stud wall
- Choose a mattress that suits the mechanism
The paint needs time to cure fully after fitting. Treat the cabinet gently at first, and clean the cabinet with a soft, damp cloth.
Check how the cabinet will get into the room. We make the cabinet in sections that fit up the stairs and through the doors, so tell us about narrow stairs or a small lift.
Questions we’re often asked
Do I need permission for fitted furniture in a conservation area?
Typically not: conservation area rules mainly cover the outside of buildings, and fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission. Listed buildings are different, as works inside that affect their character can require listed building consent from the council. The council’s planning or conservation team can tell you if in doubt.
Can you make wall beds for a home in Spitalfields?
Yes, we work across Tower Hamlets, Spitalfields included, and across the rest of London. To get started, you can fill in our short enquiry form with some details.
How much does a wall bed cost?
Because every job is different, the cost is set out in a written quote after the visit. Size, storage and finish all affect the price. To arrange a design visit, send us a few details through our contact form.
Can I send pictures before the visit?
Yes. Pictures help us understand the room before the design visit. Show anything the furniture has to work around, like radiators or sockets.
Do I choose the paint colour?
You choose it. The paint colour is agreed with you.
What happens during the design visit?
It’s a chance to measure properly and talk through what you’d like. We also check the walls and floors and note radiators, sockets and other things in the way, and the written quote comes afterwards.