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Hounslow · London
Window Seats in Turnham Green
Few London rooms are perfectly square, and we scribe the furniture to follow the walls. We make window seats for homes in Turnham Green, each designed at a visit to your home.
- A ready-made bench that does not fit the bay
- Looking for a reading spot by the window
- Unused space below a sash window
Window seats designed for your room
How we make window seats for Turnham Green
We make the seat itself, and you can source a cushion to the size we give you. You can then choose the fabric and style yourself. We make the seat to suit the cushion you plan, with a suitable depth and height. If your home has a period room that needs furniture to suit it and a child’s room that needs storage and seating, window seats made from MDF made to resist moisture and birch plywood, then spray-painted or hand-painted can solve it.
Original features like shutters, cupboard doors and panelling are worth keeping where they survive. Around Turnham Green, where homes from before 1919 make up a large share, new storage can be made to sit beside them rather than replace them. Door styles can be chosen to suit the age of the house, and painted to match. For a listed home, fixing into original joinery can need consent, so check first.
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
- Turnham Green (W4, SW13, W6)
- Borough
- Hounslow
- Prices
- Quoted for your room
- First step
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Where it’s made
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Boards and paint
- MDF and birch plywood, painted
- Fitting days
- Monday to Friday; Saturdays by prior arrangement
- Contact
- The contact form
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Flats, conversions and lettings
If your flat is leasehold, check your lease before fixing furniture to the walls. A lease can require consent from the building owner for alterations, and that’s best sorted before fitting day. We cannot advise on your lease, so check it yourself or ask your managing agent.
If your building is on a red route or a busy main road, unloading takes some planning. Red routes are run by TfL and have strict stopping rules, so it’s worth raising at the measuring visit.
Pricing window seats in Turnham Green
To work out the quote, we look at:
- Access to the room, like stairs, lifts and narrow halls
- How big the furniture is
- The number of doors and drawers
- How square the room is
Access to the room makes a difference too. Narrow halls, tight stairs or a small lift may mean the furniture is made in more sections. Every piece is quoted for your room after the design visit.
Before the design visit
To give us a picture of the room, it helps to include:
- Rough sizes: width, height and depth
- Any ideas or images you’ve saved
- What kind of home it is, and which floor the room is on
- What you’d like to store or use the space for
You don’t need exact measurements to get started. Everything is measured properly when we visit. To get started, use our contact form and let us know about the room. The written quote follows the visit.
How fitting day works
In older rooms, the furniture typically has to meet skirting, picture rails, cornice or coving. On fitting day, we cut and scribe the furniture around these details, so it looks as though it was always there. 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. In a period home, the furniture is fitted to walls that aren’t straight, so there is some trimming and adjusting on site. We protect the floors and keep dust to a minimum. Parking can be tight on terraced streets, so tell us about permits and bays at the measuring visit.
- You let us know about the window and the room, with a note of any radiator or shutters.
- We measure the window, the cill and any radiator or shutters.
- The design is agreed and a written quote follows. Take your time with it.
- Every part is made in our workshop, ready for a spray-painted or hand-painted finish. The materials are moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- We fit it in your home and check every lid and drawer with you.
How to prepare
- Take anything hanging off the wall we’re fitting to
- Mention any parking restrictions on your street
- Clear the area where the furniture is going
How to get a quote
Because every job is different, the cost is set out in a written quote after the visit. Because every room is different, the quote comes after the design visit, when we’ve measured up and talked through the design. To arrange a visit, fill in our short enquiry form.
Related advice
Making use of tricky spaces in Turnham Green
The biggest shares of homes in the area around Turnham Green were built before 1919 (about 56%) and between 1973 and 1999 (about 16%), based on the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax data. It’s a good starting point, though every room is still measured, as two homes of the same age rarely match. Turnham Green is partly covered by the Chiswick House Conservation Area, one of the conservation areas recorded by Historic England. Planning controls in conservation areas are mainly concerned with the outside of buildings, so fitting furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need permission. The council can confirm if you’re not sure. On TfL’s red routes, the rules on stopping and loading are strict. Where a home in Turnham Green is on or beside a main road, it is useful to mention that at the measuring visit. It lets us plan the stop before fitting day.
The wider area includes historic houses like Hogarth's House, about 0.2 miles west. For a period home anywhere nearby, a radiator under the window just needs a grille in the seat front. For an older house near St. Nicholas Church, a radiator under the window just needs a grille in the seat front.
Turnham Green is in the London Borough of Hounslow, about 4 miles west of Hounslow. Wherever you are in Turnham Green, it works the same way: a design visit, a written quote, furniture built in our workshop and fitting in your home. Our Hounslow coverage includes Turnham Green, along with the rest of the borough.
Design visits and fitting in W4, SW13 and W6 work the same way as everywhere else we cover. If your home is on a street like Duke Road, Short Road and Binns Road, or close by, we can visit to measure up for window seats. If you are just outside Turnham Green, we also cover Old Chiswick (1 mile east), Chiswick (1 mile north), Grove Park (1 mile south-west), Barnes (1 mile south-east) and Kew (1 mile west). Other parts of Hounslow we cover include Hounslow (4 miles west), Feltham (7 miles west), Brentford (2 miles west), Isleworth (3 miles west), Woodlands (4 miles west) and Lampton (5 miles west).
Around Turnham Green
The streets we cover here include those near Polish Library POSK in London, The Swedish School and George and Devonshire pub. Turnham Green’s nearest station is Chiswick station, roughly 0.7 miles south-west of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include Barnes Hospital (1.3 miles south) and Kurdish Museum Library and Archive (0.9 miles north-east). For a walk, there is Duke's Hollow.
Questions from Turnham Green
My house in Turnham 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. Older walls can be solid brick or lath and plaster, and the fixings are chosen to suit.
Is parking a problem for fitting in Turnham Green?
It can be, depending on whether your street is in a controlled parking zone. A van may need a visitor’s permit, a paid parking bay or a bay suspension, which the council arranges, often with notice. It is useful to let us know about parking during the design visit, so the day can be planned around it.
Do I get to choose the colour?
You choose it. The paint colour is agreed with you before anything is painted.
Should I choose a lift-up lid or drawers?
Often a mix works best. Drawers suit things you use often, and a lid suits bulky items. In a child’s room, drawers tend to be simpler for small hands. We talk it through when we visit.
Do pictures help?
Yes, they help. A few pictures of the room, from floor to ceiling, tell us a lot. You can send them when you drop us a line using the contact form.
What do you do at the measuring visit?
We take full measurements, look at the walls and floors and work through the design together. Access and parking are worth talking about too.
What prompts window seats in Turnham Green
Many people want a window seat for the storage beneath it. Under the seat there is room for blankets, toys, books and more. It adds storage without taking up more of the floor.
Most of the enquiries we get are about things like these:
- A ready-made bench that doesn’t fit the bay
- Toys spread across a bedroom floor
- Wanting a quiet place to read
- A recess under the window doing nothing
For a family home near The William Hogarth Primary School, deep drawers suit the bulky things families collect, from scooters to swimming kit.
Before you choose who makes it
- Can you see real work of theirs?
- How parking will work on your street
- Do they scribe the furniture to the walls?
- Are the boards named, such as MDF or plywood?
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Looking after your furniture
New paint needs time to cure fully, so go gently with it for a while. Beyond that, these tips help:
- Check the shutters so the seat can leave room for them
- Decide if the seat is part of a larger piece
- Think about what you will store under the seat
- Check whether there is a radiator under the window
We open each lid and drawer with you before we go. If there is a radiator grille, we make sure the radiator is clear and the grille is in place. You’ll know it all works as it should.
Condensation on the glass can drip onto the cill and the seat, so wipe it away. A little fresh air helps reduce condensation. Do not leave water sitting on the painted surface.