Bromley · London
St Mary Cray Wall Beds
We make wall beds for homes in St Mary Cray, designed around the room you have. We design your wall bed at a visit to your home, make it in our workshop and fit it.
- A proper bed instead of a sofa bed
- A living room with a bed that folds away
- A storage wall with a bed inside
Wall beds designed for your room
Fitting day, step by step
Every fitting follows the same order: floors are protected, the sections come in, everything is levelled, scribed to the walls, fixed and finished. At the end, we tidy up and go over the work with you. How long fitting takes depends on the bed, the cabinets and the wall it fixes to, and your quote sets out the fitting days. 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 prior arrangement.
- You get in touch with a few details about the room.
- The design visit covers measuring, the wall and the layout.
- A written quote is sent to you.
- Everything is made in our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- We fit the bed and storage in your home.
How to prepare
- Keep pets in another room while we work
- Clear the hallway and stairs so the sections can come through
- If you live in a block, book the lift and tell the building manager
Ask for a quote
We quote once we have seen the room. At the visit, we measure, look at the walls and floors and talk through the design with you, and the written quote comes after. There’s no price list: each design is priced in writing after we’ve seen the space. To arrange a visit, use our contact form.
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Wall beds for homes in St Mary Cray
A wall bed needs clear space in front of it to fold down, and that shapes the design. Furniture in front of the bed has to be easy to move or kept out of the way when the bed is down. We make wall beds from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, spray-painted or hand-painted, and the things people most often want solved are shelves or a desk around the bed and a bed that fills a little-used room.
Around St Mary Cray, interwar houses or semi-detached and detached homes make up a good part of the housing. Many 1930s houses have a small box room over the stairs, often with a raised bulkhead in the floor, and the bulkhead is built around rather than ignored. Main bedrooms from that era are often a good size, with a bay window at the front.
If the job needs another trade, like an electrician or a plumber, we’ll tell you. Our quote covers the carpentry: the design, the materials and the finish.
- Location
- St Mary Cray (BR5, BR6, BR7)
- Area
- Bromley
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- First step
- Design visit, then a quote in writing
- Where it is made
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Boards and paint
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Working days
- Weekdays, and Saturdays by arrangement
- Enquiries
- The contact form
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
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Flat-pack or bespoke?
Flat-pack and off-the-shelf furniture has its place. If the walls are straight and the space suits standard sizes, it often does the job, and it is quick to buy.
Long shelves are where off-the-shelf often struggles. Span, depth and the weight on it decide whether a shelf sags, so a long run needs a thicker shelf, a stiffening lip or a support. That’s something we plan for in the design.
Wall beds for homes in St Mary Cray
About 42% of the homes in the area around St Mary Cray went up between 1945 and 1972, and about 22% between 1919 and 1939, based on the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax data. For carpentry, the era of a house is a useful clue to how square its rooms are and what its walls are made of. Entries on the National Heritage List near the centre of St Mary Cray include Church of St Mary (Grade II*), less than half a mile north-east, and Spring Hall (Grade II), under half a mile south-east. Where a home is listed, listed building consent can be needed for inside works that affect its character, such as fixing into original panelling. The council’s conservation officer is the person to ask before work starts. All of London, Bromley included, is inside the ULEZ. It applies to every van that comes to fit furniture in St Mary Cray. We plan parking and access with you at the measuring visit.
If you live in a flat close to St Mary Cray station, check any building rules on lifts and working hours early, and the sections will be sized for the way in. If you live near Jubilee Country Park, morning light matters, so tall pieces go where they won’t shade the window.
St Mary Cray is about 1 mile south of Orpington, in the London Borough of Bromley. We design and make wall beds for homes in St Mary Cray and the rest of Bromley, as part of our work in every London borough. We cover places right across Bromley, from the busiest high streets to quiet residential roads.
Every address in BR5, BR6 and BR7 is within our area for wall beds. Streets in the area include New Road, Kent Road and Park Road, and homes on each of them are within our area for wall beds. The A224 runs close to St Mary Cray; on busy main roads, unloading wall beds takes a little planning. Neighbouring places we cover for wall beds include Poverest (1 mile south-west), St Paul's Cray (1 mile north), Orpington (1 mile south), Derry Downs (1 mile south-east) and Kevington (1 mile east). Other parts of Bromley we cover include Bromley (4 miles west), Beckenham (6 miles west), Chislehurst (2 miles north-west), Penge (7 miles west), Anerley (8 miles west) and Crystal Palace (8 miles west). St Mary Cray is one of the larger places we cover in Bromley.
What’s near St Mary Cray
In St Mary Cray, that includes homes near Walsingham School, Harris Academy Orpington and The Blue Anchor Public House. There is a railway station in St Mary Cray itself: St Mary Cray station. Other landmarks nearby include Queen Mary's Hospital (1.9 miles north) and London Borough of Bromley Museum (0.9 miles south). Not far away are The Warren.
Is it time for wall beds?
Some people are tired of sofa beds. With a wall bed, guests sleep on a real mattress, on a proper frame.
Here are some of the needs we are asked about most:
- More floor space in a studio flat
- A bed that fills a little-used room
- A bed that looks like cupboards by day
- A study that doubles as a spare room
If your children go to Poverest Primary School or a school nearby, a mix of drawers and shelves copes with school uniform as well as everything else.
Choosing a carpenter
- Whether they measure the room themselves
- Do they scribe the furniture to the walls?
- How the doors are hung and adjusted
- Will the quote be in writing?
What affects the price in St Mary Cray
Each piece is designed for one room, so each price is too. What affects it comes down to:
- The internal fittings
- Doors and drawers, and how many
- Stairs, lifts and the route to the room
- The finish: spray painted or hand painted
Awkward rooms take more time: uneven walls, sloping floors and angled ceilings all add scribing and cutting on site. The quote allows for it, written once we’ve measured up.
Before the design visit
A few details help us understand the job before we visit. It’s useful to include:
- Rough measurements, even if they’re only to the nearest few centimetres
- Anything fixed to the wall that the furniture needs to work around
- Whether it’s a house or a flat, and if there are stairs or a lift
- Where you live, with the postcode
The quote is built from the design visit. We measure the room properly, check how the walls and floors run and discuss the design with you. A quote in writing follows the visit for you to look over. To book one, send us a few details through our contact form.
Flats, conversions and lettings
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, after measuring the route at the design visit.
In conversions and newer blocks, many internal walls are timber or metal stud with plasterboard. We choose fixings to suit the wall, after checking the walls during the design visit.
Questions from St Mary Cray
Can parking be tricky on fitting day in St Mary Cray?
It can be, depending on whether your street is in a controlled parking zone. 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 helps to let us know about parking at the measuring visit.
Is St Mary Cray in the area you cover for wall beds?
Yes, St Mary Cray is within the area we cover, which takes in all of Bromley and the rest of London. We start with a design visit to measure the room and talk through what you need, followed by a quote.
Do I get to choose the colour?
You choose it. Spray and hand-painted finishes both use the colour you have chosen.
Should I send pictures?
Yes. They give us a feel for the space before we visit. Show anything the furniture has to work around, like radiators or sockets.
Can a wall bed go on any wall?
That depends on what the wall and floor are made of. The mechanism must be fixed to a sound wall or floor, as its maker specifies, so we check it at the measuring visit.
Does someone need to be home during the fitting?
Someone needs to let us in at the start of the day. It is good to have someone there at the end to look over the work with us.