Made at Dalston since 1972

Media walls and TV units

The television, the boxes and the cables, put away inside the joinery. A television on a bracket with a box underneath it and cables down the wall is the single easiest thing to improve in most sitting rooms, and it is furniture, not electronics.

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Fitted media wall beside a stone fireplace, with a television, a wine store and cabinets to the ceiling — Library and media wall, Threlkeld. Fitted July 2022.

The argument

Hide the boxes, keep the room

The practical work is ventilation and access: the equipment has to breathe and somebody has to be able to reach it in two years when it is replaced. Both are solved at the drawing stage and neither is solved by a bought unit.

The other half is proportion. A media wall that works is built to the room's own lines, so the cabinets line up with the chimney breast, the window reveal or the beam, instead of sitting in front of them.

MEDIA WALLS AND TV UNITS · SPECIFICATIONThwaite Holme · Lingey Close · Dalston

Carcass: Birch ply, cut and machined at Dalston, lipped
Fronts: Hand-painted in-frame, glazed where you want to see in
Screen: Built into the joinery, not hung in front of it
Equipment: Ventilated and reachable, planned at drawing stage
Painted: Pre-primed in-house, hand-painted on site in water-based eggshell
Cables: Routed inside the joinery

Made at: Dalston
Fitted by: Our own men
Trading since: 1972
Drawings kept: Always

From our own jobs

Rooms we have already made.

Fitted library and media wall at Threlkeld in deep green, glazed cabinets either side of the television, facing a window onto the fells

We build the television, the boxes, the speakers and the cables into the joinery, so what you see is a wall of cabinets with a screen in it.

Named and dated

Real houses, with the month on them.

01ThrelkeldA green library wall facing the fells, ThrelkeldJuly 2022

Where we work

Cumbria, and over the border.

We fit our own furniture across north Cumbria and into Dumfriesshire. Two of the jobs on this site are in Scotland, in the same house, two years apart.

Media walls and TV units: what people ask

Will the equipment overheat inside a cupboard?

Not if it is drawn properly. Ventilation and access are decided before anything is made, which is the advantage of building the wall rather than buying a unit and hoping.

Can it be built around a stove or a fireplace?

Yes, and it usually looks best when it is, because the fireplace already sets the centre line of the room. We build to the clearances the appliance requires.

The rest of the house

We make all of it.

01Bespoke kitchensMade in our own workshop at Dalston, and fitted by our own men.See the work 02Fitted bedrooms and wardrobesWardrobes cut to the wall you have, not the wall a catalogue assumed.See the work 03Boot rooms and utility roomsThe room that takes the weather, the dog and the washing.See the work 04Dressing roomsA spare bedroom turned into the room you get ready in.See the work 05Home offices and studiesDesk, shelves and cupboards built into the room as one piece of furniture.See the work 06Kitchen islands and lardersThe two pieces people remember, and the two worth making properly.See the work 07Free-standing furnitureWhere Bob Postlethwaite started in 1972, and we still make it.See the work

Talk to the workshop

Come and see one before you buy one.

01228 710085

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Lingey Close, Dalston, Carlisle, Cumbria, CA5 7LB. Parking on site.

Monday to Thursday: 8am – 5pm
Friday: 8am – 3.30pm
Saturday: 8am – 12pm
Sunday: Closed