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Wall beds in Wood Green, Haringey
Wall beds for your home in Wood Green: fold-down wall beds built into fitted cabinets. Each piece is designed at a visit to your home, made in our workshop and fitted by us.
- A flexible room for a growing family
- A real mattress for visitors
- Shelves or a desk around the bed
Wall beds designed for your room
Is it time for wall beds?
Often the bed is one part of a bigger plan. Shelves, cupboards or a desk built around it make the whole wall useful.
Some of the things we are asked to solve are these:
- A hobby room with a bed for guests
- A proper bed instead of a sofa bed
- A home office that also sleeps guests
- A spare room that is rarely slept in
Near listed buildings like Top Rank Club, less than half a mile south-west of the centre of Wood Green, older homes may keep original joinery that wall beds can be designed around. If your own home is listed, check with the council before fixing into original features.
Before you hire any carpenter
- Whether the quote says what the furniture is made from
- How the doors are hung and adjusted
- Which parts of the job need an electrician or a plumber
- Whether the finish is set out in the quote
Wall beds for homes in Wood Green
Safety starts with the fixing: the mechanism is fixed as its maker specifies, into a wall or floor that is sound enough to hold it. We check the wall and floor during the design visit, because the fixing has to suit what the wall is made of. We make wall beds from birch plywood and moisture-resistant MDF with a spray-painted or hand-painted finish, and the usual reasons to get in touch are a bed that looks like cupboards by day and a living room with a bed that folds away.
Older bedrooms typically have generous ceiling heights, and a large share of homes around Wood Green are that old. Fitted furniture can run right up to the ceiling or the cornice, with high storage for the things you use least. Original mouldings are worked around rather than removed, so the furniture suits the house.
After the design visit, we send you a written quote. It describes the design we discussed, the materials and the finish.
- Location
- Wood Green (N22, N8)
- Borough
- Haringey
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- First step
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Making
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Made from
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- When we fit
- Weekdays (Saturdays if arranged)
- Enquiries
- Send us a message
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
FAQs: wall beds in Wood Green
My house in Wood Green is Victorian. Can you deal with uneven walls?
Yes, that is normal in older houses: each piece is scribed to the wall and levelled at the base. We also work around skirting boards, picture rails and cornices. Fixings are chosen for the wall, whether solid brick or lath and plaster.
Do you cover homes near Alexandra Palace station?
Yes, homes across Haringey and the rest of London are within the area we cover. To get started, you can tell us about the room on our contact form with some details about the room.
Does fitted furniture need planning permission?
Typically not. Inside a house, fitted furniture doesn’t normally need planning permission. If the building is listed, works affecting its character can require listed building consent, so check with the council first.
Can a wall bed have storage around it?
Yes. Shelves, cupboards or a desk can go around the bed cabinet with shelves or a desk beside it. The design keeps clear space in front for the bed to fold down.
What happens at the measuring visit?
We take full measurements, look at the walls and floors and work through the design together. We’ll also ask about access and parking.
Do pictures help?
Yes, they help. Photos of the whole wall or room, including the floor and ceiling, give us a good idea of the space, especially with rough measurements. You can send them when you drop us a line using the contact form.
How fitting works for wall beds
Getting everything level comes first. Floors are often out of level, so adjustable feet or a plinth take up the difference, and that keeps the doors and shelves true. After that, it is fixed to the wall using fixings that suit the wall, whether that’s solid brick, lath and plaster or plasterboard. Parking on terraced streets can be tight, particularly in a controlled parking zone, so it helps to tell us at the measuring visit what’s outside. Unloading is kept short, with sections taken straight inside. Saturday fitting can be arranged.
- To begin, drop us a line using the contact form; a brief note on the room and how often guests stay is plenty.
- We visit to measure up, look at the wall and floor and make sure there’s clear space in front to lower the bed.
- You receive a quote in writing for the wall bed and any storage.
- We build the cabinet in our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- On fitting day the cabinet goes in, the mechanism is fixed securely and the bed is tried out.
- We go through the bed with you; the cabinet has the spray-painted or hand-painted finish you chose.
Getting ready for fitting day
- Get any new sockets or wiring done by your electrician before fitting day
- Keep pets out of the room and the hallway
- Tell us about any meters, fuse boards or boilers in the area
Arranging a design visit
There’s no price list: each design is priced in writing after we’ve seen the space. Each room is different, so we quote after seeing it, once the room is measured and the design talked through. For a quote, message us from the contact page.
Related advice
Why bespoke in Wood Green?
Standard units seldom reach the ceiling or fit wall to wall. A bespoke cabinet can run the full width and height, with storage or shelves filling the rest of the wall. Alcoves and recesses in period houses are rarely a standard width or depth, so ready-made units rarely fill them properly. Furniture made for the space fills it.
Getting to the room affects the job as well. Several flights of stairs, a small lift or a narrow hall can mean smaller sections and more carrying. There’s no price list: each design is priced in writing after we’ve seen the space.
Why work with us in Wood Green
- Edges scribed to follow your walls
- Saturday visits and fitting by arrangement
- Designed for the room you have
- Finished by spray or by hand
Read our comparison of bespoke and off-the-shelf or what a quote should include.
Wall beds for homes in Wood Green
Homes built before 1919 make up about 62% of the housing in the neighbourhood around Wood Green, with about 13% built since 2000, according to Valuation Office Agency council tax figures (2025). We take that into account at the design visit, since older and newer walls take different fixings. The centre of Wood Green is within about a quarter of a mile of the Trinity Gardens Conservation Area. Fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission in a conservation area, as the controls are mostly concerned with the outside of buildings. If in doubt, the council’s planning team can confirm. Flats in converted or shared houses account for about 23% of households in the streets around Wood Green, according to Census 2021. Conversions often leave rooms in unusual shapes, with partition walls, boxed-in pipes and chimney breasts in odd places, and the way in often goes up shared stairs. A lease can require consent for alterations, so it is worth checking yours first.
Close to Woodside Park? A bedroom facing the green is best kept light, with the furniture on the side walls. Bruce Castle, about 1.4 miles east, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. For a period home anywhere nearby, a bedroom chimney breast and its alcoves often shape where wall beds go.
Wood Green is part of the London Borough of Haringey, about 2 miles east of Tottenham. From period terraces to newer flats in Wood Green, we measure the room as it is and design around it. Our work takes in places right across Haringey.
Here we cover the N22 and N8 postcode area for wall beds. You will find streets here such as Vincent Square, Station Road and Gathorne Road, and homes on each of them are within our area for wall beds. Main roads around Wood Green include the B151. Neighbouring places we cover for wall beds include Noel Park (1 mile south-east), Turnpike Lane (1 mile south), Hornsey (1 mile south-west), Crouch End (1 mile south-west) and Stroud Green (2 miles south). Across the rest of Haringey, our area takes in Tottenham (2 miles east), Tottenham Green (2 miles south-east), South Tottenham (2 miles south-east), Seven Sisters (2 miles south-east), Finsbury Park (2 miles south) and Highgate (2 miles south-west). Being one of the larger places in Haringey, Wood Green is covered for all of our fitted furniture.
Around Wood Green
The streets we cover here include those near St Thomas More Catholic School, The Nag's Head pub and Greek Secondary School of London and the streets around them. The nearest railway station is Alexandra Palace station, roughly 0.5 miles west of the centre. Nearby you will also find Broomfield House Museum (1.3 miles north) and The Mall Wood Green (within half a mile south). Open spaces near Wood Green include Railway Fields.
Bespoke or off-the-shelf?
It’s worth being honest about cost: flat-pack is typically cheaper to buy. Bespoke earns its place where the room is awkward, space is tight or you want the furniture to look part of the house.
Off-the-shelf cupboards come in fixed sizes, so there’s usually a gap left over at the top or at one end. Furniture we make is built to the room’s own sizes, so it can use the full height and width.
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