Example photo by Franco Debartolo on Unsplash, not our project
Enfield · London
New Southgate Window Seats
Thinking about window seats in New Southgate? It starts with a design visit to measure and talk through ideas, then a written quote, before anything is made.
- No comfortable place to sit in the light
- A bay with no furniture that fits
- A radiator that makes the space hard to use
Window seats for your home in New Southgate
Looking after your furniture
None of this takes much effort. Here’s what we suggest:
- Let us know about parking during the design visit
- Decide whether you’d like a lid, drawers or both
- Think about whether you’d like shelves either side
- Clear the bay or window area before the design visit
We open each lid and drawer with you before we go. If there’s a radiator grille, we make sure the radiator is clear and the grille is in place. You will know it all works as it should.
Do not block the grille with cushions or things stored in front of it. Keeping it clear helps the radiator work as it should. Things stored near a radiator stay warm, so choose what goes there with that in mind.
Window seats in New Southgate: what you get
A seat under a bedroom or nursery window can store toys, bedding or books. Drawers or a lift-up lid turn it into storage as well as seating. For children’s rooms, drawers are often easier for small hands than a heavy lid. In New Southgate, the design visit is where the details are settled. We make window seats from MDF made to resist moisture and birch plywood, then spray-painted or hand-painted, and the usual reasons to get in touch are no space for toys and games and unused space below a sash window.
In a part of London with mixed housing, like much of the city, no two homes have quite the same walls and floors. Window seats are scribed and levelled on site, so they look straight even where the room is not. You choose the paint colour, and whether it is spray-painted or hand-painted.
Where other trades are needed, for instance an electrician to move a socket, we point that out. Our quote covers the carpentry: the design, the materials and the finish.
- Place
- New Southgate (N11, N10, N14)
- Area
- Enfield
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- We visit, measure, then quote
- Where it is made
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Materials and finish
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Fitting days
- Weekdays (Saturdays if arranged)
- Enquiries
- Our contact form
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
Fitted storage in New Southgate
Homes built before 1919 make up about 27% of the housing in the streets around New Southgate, 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 window seats are fixed and fitted. Part of New Southgate is in a conservation area, going by Historic England’s data. Being in a conservation area mainly affects changes to the outside of a building, and fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission. If in doubt, the council’s planning team can confirm. A quarter or more of the homes in the area around New Southgate (about 26%) date from between 1919 and 1939, on the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures for 2025. Many houses of that era have bay windows, natural places for a window seat.
If you live near O. R. Tambo Recreation Ground, living near green space often means muddy boots, bikes and outdoor kit, and window seats can give those things a place. If your home is as old as some of the listed buildings nearby, like Arnos Grove Underground Station, original features like shutters, panelling and fireplaces are worth designing around. For a listed home, fixing into original features can need listed building consent.
New Southgate is in the London Borough of Enfield, about 4 miles east of Edmonton. We cover New Southgate as part of our work across Enfield. In Enfield, New Southgate is one of the places we cover, and the borough has 26 places on our list.
Here we cover the N11, N10 and N14 postcode area for window seats. You will find streets here such as High Road, Orion Road and Atlas Road, and we cover homes on all of them for window seats. The A1003 and A1110 runs close to New Southgate, so if your home is on a main road, mention it when you get in touch. If you are just outside New Southgate, we also cover Friern Barnet (1 mile west), Arnos Grove (1 mile east), Bounds Green (1 mile south-east), Brunswick Park (1 mile north) and Southgate (1 mile north). Elsewhere in Enfield, we also cover Edmonton (4 miles east), Enfield (4 miles north-east), Enfield Chase (3 miles north-east), Bush Hill Park (4 miles north-east), Upper Edmonton (3 miles east) and Gordon Hill (4 miles north-east). As one of the bigger places in Enfield, New Southgate is covered for all of our fitted furniture.
Landmarks near New Southgate
Our area takes in the homes around The Ranelagh pub, Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum and Ming-Ai and the streets around them. New Southgate has its own railway station: New Southgate station. Other landmarks nearby include Grand Arcade (1.5 miles west) and Broomfield House Museum (1.1 miles east). Not far away are Barfield Allotments Nature Park.
What affects the cost of window seats
The price for your room depends on:
- Stairs, lifts and the route to the room
- Spray painting or hand painting
- The overall size of the piece
- Parking near your home
The inside of the furniture affects the price as well: rails, shelves, drawers and dividers all add work. At the design visit, we work out what you need inside, then set it out in the quote.
Helping us understand the room
Getting some details early makes the visit more useful. Where you can, include:
- Anything in the way, such as radiators, sockets, switches, a boiler or meters
- Any ideas or images you have saved
- Approximate measurements of the space
- A few photos of the space, taken from the doorway and from each corner
Every quote follows a design visit. We measure the space, check the walls and floors and discuss what you’d like, then send a written quote. Your quote is written for your room once we’ve visited and measured. To arrange a visit, send us a few details through our contact form.
Common questions about window seats
Can you fit furniture in a home close to New Southgate station?
Yes, homes across Enfield 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 a few details about the room.
Is New Southgate in the area you cover for window seats?
Yes. New Southgate is one of the places we work, along with the rest of Enfield and London. You can tell us about the room on our contact form to arrange a design visit.
Do I need to be at home on fitting day?
We need access, so someone has to let us in. You don’t need to watch us work.
Do you do the electrics?
No. Sockets, switches and lighting are for your electrician. We plan the furniture around where they’ll go.
How long is the fitting for a window seat?
The time the fitting takes depends on whether the seat has drawers, a lift-up lid or a radiator grille, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. Every part is made at our workshop before we arrive. Saturday fitting is possible by prior arrangement.
What does a bespoke window seat cost?
We quote each job for the room it’s going into, after the design visit. The size of the window, the storage and the finish all shape the price. For a quote, tell us about the room on our contact form to arrange a design visit.
When is bespoke worth it?
It is worth being honest about cost: off-the-shelf furniture normally costs less up front. Bespoke makes more sense where the room is awkward, the space is valuable or you want the furniture to look built in.
Where bespoke earns its keep is in rooms that are not square. In period homes, walls lean, floors slope and the alcoves on each side are often different widths.
Fitting day, step by step
Furniture made in a workshop still has to meet the room it is going into, and fitting day is where that happens. Few walls in older London homes are truly flat or square, so each edge that meets a wall is scribed to follow it, until the line is tight. How long the fitting itself takes depends on the shape of the bay or recess and what goes under the seat, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. Whatever the age of your home, the furniture is fitted to the walls you have, with scribing where they wander and packing where floors dip. Hand painting can happen on site, while spray-painted pieces come ready from the workshop.
- You get in touch and describe the window.
- We visit to measure the angles of the bay and the floor, and go through the design.
- A written quote follows, setting out the design, materials and finish.
- In our workshop we make each section of the seat from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- We fit the seat in your home, trimming the edges to meet the walls and cill.
Preparing the room
- Clear the walls of pictures and shelves
- Empty the space we’ll be working in
- Let us know if your street is in a controlled parking zone
Ask for a quote
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. To arrange a visit, fill in our short enquiry form.
Advice
Do you need window seats in New Southgate?
Some people want a reading spot. A window seat, perhaps with shelves either side, does exactly that. It’s often the most-used seat in the house.
These come up often when people first get in touch:
- A child’s room that needs storage and seating
- A room with shutters and sashes that deserves a proper seat
- Nowhere to keep blankets, toys or books
- Looking for a reading spot by the window
For a family home near St Paul's CofE Primary School N11, a place for each person’s coat and shoes stops the hallway filling up.
Before you hire any carpenter
- Whether the route into your home has been checked
- Who does any electrics, plumbing or gas work
- Are the boards named, like MDF or plywood?
- Whether you’ll get a written quote, not just a figure