Bespoke TV and media joinery by Reeve & Co – fitted media walls, integrated television cabinetry, AV storage and combined bookcase and media units designed around the technology requirements of a room without allowing technology to dominate it. Made in our Suffolk workshop, installed across London, the Home Counties and the wider UK.

A media wall designed as furniture

A television on a white wall is not a design solution. A TV and media unit that has been designed as a piece of furniture – with the screen positioned at the correct height for the room, the AV equipment housed in ventilated and accessible compartments, the cabling concealed from the outset and the surrounding cabinetry scaled and detailed to read as part of the room’s architecture – is a fundamentally different proposition.

Reeve & Co designs and makes bespoke TV and media joinery for private homes across London, the Home Counties and the wider UK. Our media cabinetry ranges from a single fitted TV cabinet flanked by shelving and cupboards in a sitting room to a full chimney-breast media wall in an open-plan apartment, designed as a combined media, display and storage piece with concealed cabling and integrated surround-sound provision. The common thread is that the technology serves the room rather than the room serving the technology.

Media joinery types and configurations

Cable management and AV integration

The most common failure in fitted media furniture is cable management treated as an afterthought. Visible HDMI cables, exposed power strips and inaccessible equipment bays are signs that the joinery was not designed around the technology it houses. We resolve cable management at the drawing stage: routing cables through the structure of the cabinetry, incorporating ventilated equipment bays with pull-out shelving for easy access, and designing in-wall cable routes in co-ordination with the client’s electrician and AV installer.

We work alongside AV installers and acoustics consultants where the brief requires it. Our role is to produce the cabinetry that makes their work invisible – so the room functions as intended and looks as though the technology were always part of it.

Designing a media wall that reads as furniture, not as technology

The principal design challenge of a fitted media wall is that it is organised around a specific and often visually dominant object – a television – that the furniture is nonetheless trying not to emphasise. The approaches are broadly three. The first is to house the screen in a cabinet with closing doors, so that it disappears when not in use and the cabinet reads as a sideboard or dresser. This works well for screens up to approximately 65 inches and in rooms where the television is used intermittently rather than as the primary activity.

The second approach is to acknowledge the screen by designing the cabinetry around it deliberately – a framed recess at the correct height, flanking shelving or cupboards that balance the visual weight of the screen, and a base unit below that houses the AV equipment and provides a surface. The screen is present but the furniture governs the composition. This is the most common approach for open-plan living rooms, family rooms and sitting rooms in London apartments.

The third approach is the dedicated media or cinema room, where the joinery is a complete interior – wall panelling, acoustic treatment within the furniture frame, concealed projector housing, fitted seating surrounds and integrated lighting. The room exists for the technology but does not look like a shop floor. We have designed and made a number of private home cinema interiors for London clients and country-house projects where a dedicated media room is part of the wider renovation brief.

Materials and finishes

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Choosing the right design for your room and screen

Screen size has a significant bearing on the design of the media joinery. A 55-inch screen can be concealed behind a pair of hinged cabinet doors without difficulty. An 85-inch screen requires different thinking: the doors become unwieldy at that scale, and a framed recess with the screen as an acknowledged feature of the room is usually the better design solution. For very large screens – 100 inches and above – the screen often becomes the wall, and the joinery frames it on either side with closed storage, integrated lighting and flanking shelving.

Viewing height is a separate consideration. The correct height for a television screen is determined by eye level when seated – typically with the centre of the screen at or just below seated eye height (approximately 1,050-1,100mm from floor level). Many media units place screens too high, which causes neck discomfort and reduces the quality of the viewing experience over time. We position screens at the correct height as part of the design drawing, not as an afterthought once the cabinet has been built.

Where we work: media joinery across London and the Home Counties

TV and media joinery commissions are accepted across London – including Kensington, Chelsea, Notting Hill, Belgravia, Mayfair, Islington, Hampstead and Marylebone – and across the Home Counties for the right residential projects. We also work in East Anglia and take UK-wide commissions where the standard of finish required is consistent with bespoke workshop making.

Media joinery is frequently part of a wider fitted furniture programme. A sitting room commission might include the media wall, a pair of alcove bookcases, wall panelling and a fitted drinks cabinet – all designed as a single coordinated interior. We are experienced at managing and delivering these wider programmes, and at co-ordinating the joinery with other trades including plasterers, electricians, AV installers and decorators.

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TV and media joinery FAQs

Bespoke fitted home offices and studies designed and made by Reeve & Co – from a single fitted desk and bookcase in a London townhouse to a fully panelled study for a country estate. Every commission is drawn in-house, made in our Suffolk workshop and installed by our own team to a standard that suits a serious working room.

A fitted study should be as well-made as any other room in the house

The home office or study is among the most important rooms in a private house – a room that needs to function precisely and feel settled, authoritative and quiet. Yet fitted office joinery is often the last part of a house to receive the level of design attention applied to a kitchen or drawing room. Reeve & Co treats a bespoke study commission with exactly the same rigour: drawn in-house from first principles, made in solid hardwood, detailed to match the architecture of the building and finished to a standard that will not date.

We have completed fitted study and home office commissions in private residences across London (including Westminster, Kensington and Grosvenor Hill), in commercial office fit-outs, in educational settings, and in country houses across the Home Counties. The brief varies – sometimes the priority is library shelving, sometimes a large fitted desk with concealed cable management, sometimes a fully panelled room with concealed storage and integrated technology. The approach is always the same: measure accurately, draw carefully, make properly, fit well.

What a fitted study or home office commission can include

Cable management and technology integration

A fitted home office that looks beautiful but requires visible cable runs or lacks power access is badly planned. We resolve cable management at the drawing stage: routing power and data cabling through the desk structure, incorporating in-desk power modules, designing monitor arms into the back panel of the desk unit, and planning printer and AV storage so that equipment is accessible but not on display.

For rooms with screens, video conferencing equipment or sound systems, we design the joinery around the technology requirements rather than adapting the technology to fit the furniture. Cable routes, ventilation for AV equipment and access hatches are all drawn in before manufacture begins.

Materials and finishes for fitted offices

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How the commission works

1. Brief and survey – We discuss the room’s function, the technology it needs to accommodate, the storage brief and the design direction. We measure the room properly and note the architecture – window reveals, skirting profile, ceiling height and any structural constraints.
2. Design drawings – Elevations and workshop drawings are produced. Cable routes, lighting positions, monitor and screen positions, storage capacities and finish choices are all resolved before manufacture starts.
3. Workshop manufacture – The joinery is made in Mickfield by our own team. Carcases, desk structures, drawer boxes and door frames are all made and finished in-house.
4. Installation – Our fitting team installs, scribes to the building and completes any site finishing. We co-ordinate with your electrician and any other trades on site.

Design considerations for a fitted study or home office

A fitted home office commission usually begins with a functional brief that is less precise than the client expects. “I need a desk and some shelving” is a starting point, but the real design challenge is determining exactly how the room is used and what that requires in practice. Does the client take video calls, and if so, where is the camera positioned relative to the window? Is there a printer, and where does it live when not in use? Is the room also a reading room, and does it need comfortable seating alongside the working desk? Are there two people who need to work in the room simultaneously, requiring two distinct desk areas?

These questions are resolved in the design brief, which we develop with the client before drawings begin. A study that has been designed around a real working brief will be more useful and more comfortable than one designed around aesthetic assumptions. A well-placed desk – the right depth, the right height, the right orientation to the window – makes a meaningful difference to how long someone can work in a room without fatigue.

For panelled studies and library rooms, the design question extends beyond function into atmosphere. A French-polished oak study, lined floor to ceiling with books and designed with a partner’s desk at its centre, makes a very particular statement. A lighter painted study with a fitted desk, open shelving for current work and closed cupboards for archive makes a different statement. We draw both and advise on which suits the room, the house and the way the client intends to use it.

Who commissions fitted offices from Reeve & Co

Private clients managing their own home refurbishment, architects designing high-end residential interiors, interior designers specifying for private clients, and commercial clients seeking a standard of office joinery above the contract fit-out norm. We accept both private residential and commercial commissions where the level of finish required is consistent with bespoke making.

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