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Wall Beds in Woodside
Planning wall beds for a home in Woodside? It starts with a design visit to measure and talk through ideas, then a quote in writing.
- Storage built around a fold-down bed
- A playroom that can sleep visitors
- Room for a desk and a guest bed
Ask about wall beds in Woodside
Looking after your furniture
Fresh paintwork takes a while to cure fully, so treat it gently at first. Beyond that, these tips help:
- Decide who the bed is mainly for
- Give the paint time to cure fully
- Check mattress size and weight limits
- Keep the floor in front clear before lowering the bed
Whether bedding can stay on the bed when it folds up depends on the mechanism. We can build a cupboard beside the bed for extra bedding.
If you live in a leasehold flat, check your lease before fixing furniture to the walls. Your lease is something to check with whoever manages the building.
Wall beds in Woodside
We fit wall beds in Woodside and across London. It starts with a design visit to measure the room and check the wall, then a quote in writing. We make everything in our workshop and fit it in your home. How long the fitting takes depends on the bed, the cabinets and the wall it fixes to, and your quote sets out the fitting days. 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 playroom that can sleep visitors and a storage wall with a bed inside.
In a part of London with mixed housing, like much of the city, bedrooms range from box rooms to large rooms with bays and sloping ceilings. Wall beds can work in any of them, from a small spare room to a main bedroom. Every wall in Woodside homes is measured on site, because none is assumed to be square.
The furniture is made in our workshop after you have had the quote and decided to go ahead. The quote sets out the agreed design, materials and finish, so every detail can be checked first.
- Place
- Woodside (CR0, SE25, CR9)
- Borough
- Croydon
- Prices
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- Design visit, then a quote in writing
- Making
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Materials and finish
- MDF and birch plywood, painted
- Fitting days
- Weekdays, and Saturdays by arrangement
- Enquiries
- Send us a message
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
Why bespoke in Woodside?
You can buy wall bed units off the shelf, often for less, and in a simple room they may be enough. They’re made in standard sizes, so they may not suit uneven walls, low ceilings or alcoves. A bespoke cabinet is built for the room. Ready-made furniture rarely suits a recess, a slope or an odd corner, and most homes have one somewhere. Fitted furniture is designed around them.
Prices are quoted for your room, once we’ve measured and talked through the design. A larger piece means more material and more time, so size is the starting point. After that, the number of doors and drawers, the internal fittings and the finish all play a part.
Why us?
- Every quote follows a design visit
- Built from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood
- A spray or hand-painted finish
- Fitted tight to walls that are not straight
Read bespoke vs off-the-shelf and what to look for in a quote.
Could you do it yourself?
Shop-bought shelves can sag over a long span. 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. That is something we plan for in the design.
If you are handy, a simple shelf or a standard wardrobe in a square room is a reasonable DIY job. It gets harder with sloping ceilings, out-of-level floors and lath-and-plaster walls, because scribing and the right fixings start to matter.
Bedroom storage in Woodside
Homes built before 1919 make up about 44% of the housing in the area around Woodside, with about 26% built between 1919 and 1939, in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. The age of a home tells us a lot about its walls, floors and ceilings, and so about how wall beds are fixed and fitted. Near the centre of Woodside, Historic England’s list includes Church of St Luke (Grade II), less than half a mile north-east, and Woodside Cottage (Grade II), less than half a mile north. Works inside a listed home that affect its character, for example removing original joinery or fixing into it, can require listed building consent from the council. Ask the council’s conservation officer before anything is fixed. A quarter or more of the homes in the streets around Woodside (about 26%) date from between 1919 and 1939, on the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures for 2025. Houses from that era often have a box room over the stairs, with a raised bulkhead in the floor, a good spot for fitted furniture built around the bulkhead.
If your children go to St Thomas Becket Catholic Primary School or a school nearby, hanging rails set low at first can be raised later, as children get taller. If you live in a flat close to Norwood Junction station, the route in is measured as well as the room, and the sections are sized to fit it.
Woodside is about 2 miles north-west of Thornton Heath, part of the London Borough of Croydon. Wherever you are in Woodside, it works the same way: we visit and measure, send a written quote, make the furniture in our workshop and fit it. We list Woodside among 32 places we cover in Croydon.
Here we cover the CR0, SE25 and CR9 postcode area for wall beds. We cover homes on streets such as Long Lane, Tudor Road and Coe Avenue, along with the roads around them, whether you want wall beds or another piece made for the room. We also cover Ashburton (1 mile south), Addiscombe (1 mile south), Shirley Oaks (1 mile south-east), Monks Orchard (1 mile south-east) and Shirley (1 mile south-east). Elsewhere in Croydon, we also cover Thornton Heath (2 miles north-west), Croydon (2 miles south-west), Coulsdon (6 miles south-west), Purley (4 miles south-west), Broad Green (2 miles west) and Upper Norwood (2 miles north).
Local landmarks in Woodside
In Woodside, that includes homes near The Beehive pub and Oasis Academy Shirley Park. Woodside’s nearest station is Norwood Junction station, about 0.7 miles north-west of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include National Psychosis Unit (1.7 miles east) and Whitgift Centre (1.7 miles south-west).
Questions from Woodside
Will parking be an issue for fitting furniture in Woodside?
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. Let us know what parking is near you during the design visit.
Can you make wall beds for a home in Woodside?
Yes, Woodside is within the area we cover, which takes in all of Croydon 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 you move sockets or add lighting?
No. Electrical work is not something we do; it’s a job for your electrician. We can plan cable routes into the design.
Is it possible to add a desk beside the wall bed?
Yes. We often design the bed as part of a wider storage wall with shelves or a desk beside it. We plan it so the bed still has room to come down.
Is a wall bed safe for everyday use?
Wall beds are made for regular use when fixed and used as its maker specifies. The mechanism is fixed securely to a wall or floor that can take the load, and the maker’s guidance on use should always be followed.
What if the wall is cold or damp?
It needs a little planning: ventilation behind and inside the furniture helps avoid condensation and mould. Damp treatment isn’t something we do, so any damp needs sorting first.
Is it time for wall beds?
Some people are tired of sofa beds. A wall bed takes a proper mattress, chosen to suit its mechanism, and the bed sits flat on its frame.
People usually get in touch with us about things like these:
- A spare room that is rarely slept in
- A studio that works by day and night
- A storage wall with a bed inside
- Somewhere comfortable for guests to sleep
Addington Palace, about 2.4 miles south-east, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. If your own home is a period one, a bedroom chimney breast and its alcoves often shape where wall beds go.
Before you choose who makes it
- Which materials they’ll use, named in the quote
- How they handle walls that are not straight
- How the furniture will be finished, and where
- Real projects you can actually look at
How fitting works for wall beds
Getting everything level comes first. Where the floor slopes, we bring the furniture up to level on adjustable feet or a plinth, and that keeps the doors and shelves true. Only then is it fixed to the wall, with fixings chosen to suit brick, lath and plaster or plasterboard. Fitting day means joining the sections, fitting them to the walls and setting them level. Fixings are chosen for the wall, whether brick, block, lath and plaster or plasterboard. Saturdays can be arranged.
- You get in touch with some details about the room.
- We visit, measure and talk through the bed, shelves and desk. What the wall is made of matters, as the bed has to be fixed securely.
- A quote in writing is sent to you.
- The cabinets are made at our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- The wall bed is fitted in your home, with the mechanism fixed as its maker specifies.
Preparing the room
- Let us know if your street is in a controlled parking zone
- Have your electrician move any sockets or switches beforehand
- Book any lift and let the concierge or building manager know
Arranging a design visit
Getting a quote starts with some details: which room it is, rough measurements and a couple of photos if you can take them. When you are ready, message us from the contact page. After that, we arrange a visit to measure and go through the design, then send a quote in writing.