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Wall Beds in Upper Norwood
Wall beds for your home in Upper Norwood: 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 real mattress for visitors
- Hiding the bed when it’s not in use
- A study that doubles as a spare room
Wall beds designed for your room
What prompts wall beds in Upper Norwood
Some people are tired of sofa beds. With a wall bed, guests sleep on a real mattress, on a proper frame.
People typically get in touch with us about things like these:
- A flexible room for a growing family
- A storage wall with a bed inside
- A living room with a bed that folds away
- A guest bed that disappears in the day
Living in a block of flats near Gipsy Hill station? Then each piece is planned so it can be carried up and joined together in the room.
What to check before you book
- A written quote that sets out the job
- Which parts of the job need an electrician or a plumber
- Whether the route into your home has been checked
- How parking will work on your street
How we make wall beds for Upper Norwood
We build the bed housing from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, spray painted in our workshop or hand painted. Doors on the front can look like a run of cupboards, so the room does not read as a bedroom by day. Most enquiries start with shelves or a desk around the bed and a bed that fills a little-used room, and the answer is built in our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, finished by spray or by hand.
Older bedrooms bring bowed walls and high ceilings, newer ones stud walls and lower ceilings. A home in Upper Norwood might be either, or neither. Each is measured and fitted in its own way. The height of the room decides how tall the pieces can be.
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.
- Place
- Upper Norwood (SE19, SE27, SE21)
- Borough
- Croydon
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Made
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Made from
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- Working days
- Weekdays; Saturdays on request
- Contact
- Our contact form
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
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Why bespoke in Upper Norwood?
You can buy wall bed units off the shelf, often for less, and in a simple room they may be enough. They come in set sizes and finishes, so they may not suit uneven walls, low ceilings or alcoves. A bespoke cabinet is built for the room. A standard unit is the same in every home, whatever the room is like, while fitted furniture is drawn for the room it goes into. It can be painted in a colour chosen for that room.
There is no price list, because every piece is designed for one room. Instead, we measure, talk through the design and then quote in writing, with the materials and finish set out. To start, send us a few details through our contact form.
Why work with us in Upper Norwood
- Saturday visits and fitting by arrangement
- Spray painted or hand painted, in the colour you choose
- Work across the whole of London
- More than 300 projects completed
Take a look at our comparison of bespoke and off-the-shelf or how to compare quotes.
Questions from Upper Norwood
Can you fit furniture in a home close to Gipsy Hill station?
Yes, homes across Croydon and the rest of London are within the area we cover. To get started, you can drop us a line using the contact form with a few details about the room.
My home in Upper Norwood is a flat. How do you get the furniture in?
We measure the route in along with the room itself: the stairs, landings, lift and doors. The furniture is made in sections that fit the stairs and lift, and put together in the room. It helps to check any building rules and your lease before fitting day.
Do you do the electrics?
No. Electrical work isn’t something we do; it’s a job for your electrician. We can allow for cable routes in the design, and new sockets should be in place before fitting day.
Who chooses the colour?
You choose it, and we agree it with you before the furniture is finished. Spray and hand-painted finishes both use the colour you’ve chosen.
What happens when you come to measure?
It is a chance to measure properly and talk through what you’d like. We look at the walls, floors and anything the furniture has to work around, and the written quote comes afterwards.
Do I need to be in when you fit?
We need access, so someone has to let us in. After that, you do not need to stay in the room, but it helps to be around at the end.
Pricing wall beds in Upper Norwood
There is no set price, because there’s no set room. What affects it comes down to:
- The width and height of the space
- Awkward walls, sloping ceilings and uneven floors
- The finish: spray painted or hand painted
- Access to the room, such as stairs, lifts and narrow halls
Prices are quoted for your room, once we’ve measured and talked through the design. Bigger pieces use more board and take longer to make and fit. Doors, drawers, internal fittings and the finish make up most of the rest.
Getting in touch
There is no need for exact sizes or plans. It is enough to send:
- The type of home and how the room is reached
- Radiators, sockets, pipes or meters on or near the wall
- Your postcode and the borough
- What the furniture needs to hold
A quote begins with some details from you: the room, rough measurements and some pictures if you have them. To send them, drop us a line using the contact form. We’ll then arrange a design visit and follow it with a quote in writing.
What happens on fitting day
You won’t need to do much on the day. Someone needs to let us in, and the room should already be cleared, as agreed at the design visit. After that, it is over to us: the floors are covered, the sections come in and the fitting begins. How long the fitting takes depends on the design and how much storage goes around the bed, and your quote sets out the fitting days. We measure the hall, stairs, doors and any lift not just the room, so the furniture comes in sections sized for the route. Floors and doorways are protected while the pieces come in.
- 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.
- At the design visit we measure the room, look at the wall and talk through the design.
- 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 in our workshop.
- We fit everything in your home and check the bed lowers and lifts smoothly.
Preparing the room
- Let us know if your street is in a controlled parking zone
- Point out meters, boilers and fuse boards near the furniture
- Get any new sockets or wiring done by your electrician before fitting day
Starting with a design visit
To make a start, send us a few details through our contact form and let us know 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 written quote follows.
Related advice
Upper Norwood homes and wall beds
About 35% of the homes in the streets around Upper Norwood went up before 1919, and about 25% between 1945 and 1972, 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. There are 19 entries on the National Heritage List within half a mile of the centre of Upper Norwood. Being near listed buildings doesn’t make a home listed, and you can check any address on Historic England’s list. About 25% of homes in the streets around Upper Norwood were built between 1945 and 1972, going by the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax figures. Post-war bedrooms are usually simple shapes, which suits fitted furniture along a whole wall, with fixings chosen for concrete, block or brick.
If you live near Long Meadow, morning light matters, so tall pieces go where they will not shade the window. Near listed buildings like Subway, about 0.5 miles east of the centre of Upper Norwood, older homes may keep original joinery that wall beds can be designed around. For a listed home, fixing into original features can need listed building consent.
Upper Norwood is about 2 miles south-west of Thornton Heath, within the London Borough of Croydon. Anywhere in Upper Norwood, it works the same way: we visit and measure, send a quote in writing, make the furniture in our workshop and fit it. Upper Norwood is one of 32 places on our list for Croydon.
We make wall beds across SE19, SE27 and SE21 for wall beds. If your home is on a street such as Dover Road, Hawke Road and Tudor Road, or close by, we can arrange a design visit for wall beds. Upper Norwood is near the A214, so if your home is on a main road, mention it when you contact us. We also cover Norwood New Town (1 mile west), Gipsy Hill (1 mile north-east), West Norwood (1 mile north-west), Crystal Palace (1 mile east) and Anerley (1 mile east). Elsewhere in Croydon, we also cover Thornton Heath (2 miles south-west), Croydon (4 miles south), Coulsdon (8 miles south), Purley (6 miles south), Broad Green (2 miles south) and Woodside (2 miles south).
Near you in Upper Norwood
We fit furniture in homes around Rockmount Primary School, The Sparrowhawk pub and Virgo Fidelis Convent Senior School and the streets around them. There’s a railway station in Upper Norwood itself: Gipsy Hill station. Well-known places in the area include St Christopher's Hospice (1.3 miles east) and Crystal Palace Museum (0.5 miles east). Green spaces nearby include Dulwich Upper Wood.
DIY, flat-pack or bespoke
Flat-pack and off-the-shelf furniture has its place. In a room with square walls and standard sizes, it can work well, and it is quick to buy.
The real difference is in the fit: edges scribed to the wall, a level base on a sloping floor and a neat line where the furniture meets the ceiling. In an older room, standard units rarely manage that.