Hand-made media walls, fireplace schemes, motorised TV reveals and dedicated cinema rooms. Designed in our Birmingham studio, built in our workshop, fitted by the team that made it.
Every Posh Design media wall is drawn, joined, finished and installed by us, with AV partners calibrating on site. Commission a single wall or a dedicated cinema room. Both welcome.
A full-height bespoke wall that holds the TV, soundbar, consoles, books and none of the mess. Drawn around the room, hand-built in the workshop.
TV and fire on the same elevation, drawn properly so the flue, the heat-rise and the sightlines all behave.
Sliding panels, lift-and-pivot art frames or drop-down mounts. The TV is there when you want it, gone when you do not.
A dedicated room when you want one. The same bespoke joinery and finishing as our media walls, coordinated with AV specialists.
( 02: Start your media wall brief )
Tap through four prompts and we'll have a working brief before you finish your tea. A senior media-wall designer rings within one working day. No deposit, no follow-up sales calls.
( 02: Selected work · Recent media walls )
A short read of recent commissions: floating cabinets, fluted elevations, slatted dividers, a dedicated cinema room. Drag the strip, take the arrows, or just stare.
Smoked oak, LED cove.
Hand-painted, drawing room.
Two-sided oak joinery.
Wall-to-wall, garden-aligned.
LED-lit, dimmer scenes.
Curved screen, tiered seating.
Recessed screen, painted reveal.
A bespoke media wall is six engineered systems in one elevation. Most installs you have lived with hide the first three and forget the last three. We draw all six in week one.
Screen position set from the seated eye line of the actual sofa, not a generic centre line. Mounted on heat-shielded brackets with isolated fixings.
Passive convection grilles top and bottom, active fans where the equipment rack runs hot. Dust-sealed, hinged for service access from the front.
A vertical conduit running the height of the wall. Power kept apart from signal, fibre or 4K-HDMI specified where runs exceed five metres.
Either a routed shadow-gap for a soundbar or in-wall LCR speakers behind acoustic fabric. Decided in week one, never bolted on.
A continuous LED cove washing the wall behind the screen. Bias light at film time, ambient glow at every other.
A floating hearth in stone, a log drawer, or a recessed plinth concealing the subwoofer chamber. Specified to the room, not the catalogue.
We sit between master joiners and serious AV integration. A Posh Design media wall is planned around acoustics, heat load and cable runs before the cabinet door is ever drawn.
A media wall is bespoke cabinetry that happens to hold a TV. Drawn from scratch in CAD, cut in our Birmingham workshop, hand-painted or veneered to order, then fitted into the room it was drawn for.
Hand-built in solid-frame carcasses, not flat-pack carcasses dressed in veneer.
Most media walls fail because two trades blame each other on a Friday night. We coordinate both. One schedule, one snag list, one studio to call when something needs attention three years in.
Joinery lead and AV partner walk the brief together in week one.
Screens make heat. Subwoofers move air. HDMI runs over five metres are not just wires. We plan ventilation, isolation and shielded cable routes before the cabinet door is ever drawn.
Active or passive cooling specified per project; no melting brackets, no failed HDR.
Designed, built, finished and installed by the same team. No subcontracted fit, no flat-pack carcasses behind the veneer, no surprise gaps at the skirting on handover morning.
The cabinet-maker who drew it is on site the day it is installed.
We have heard every brief on a Saturday morning. The ones that turn into the best finished rooms always start with the same questions answered honestly. These are them.
The right screen is set by the seated eye line and the throw from the furthest seat, not the wall it goes on. We measure the room before we agree the brief, because a 95" on the wrong centre line is a worse outcome than a 75" on the right one.
Bio-ethanol needs no flue and adds 1.5–3kW of heat. Electric is heat-neutral and flexible. Flued gas needs combustion-air, a Class-1 or balanced flue, and architect coordination, usually only viable on external walls.
A real fire on the same elevation as a £4,000 screen needs measured heat-rise modelling, a shielded mantel zone, and a screen position outside the convection plume. We refuse builds where the brief insists on a TV directly over an open hearth.
Cove lighting behind the screen reduces eye strain by ~30% at film time. Scene-integrated dimming on the same circuits as the rest of the room. Specified at week one; retrofitted later it always shows.
A bare plaster wall + hard floor + glass coffee table = a slap-back chamber. Either the cabinetry includes acoustic panelling behind fabric, or the speakers are specified to compensate. Pick one in week one.
HDMI runs degrade past five metres on copper, equipment racks need ventilation, in-wall speakers want sealed chambers, and a hidden subwoofer needs a port that vents into the room, not into the void. None of this is improvised on install day.
Full lead time is typically 2–3 months. Media walls move faster than whole kitchens: a single elevation, fewer trades, one room, and the workshop is attached to the studio so handovers happen on weeks, not seasons. You will have the milestones before you sign.
90 minutes at your home or our Birmingham showroom. Sightline study, AV audit, honest budget conversation.
Plans, elevations, finish boards, lighting scheme. One reveal meeting, one defended concept.
Joinery and finishing in our Birmingham workshop, attached to the studio. AV rack built, tested and labelled off-site.
Our fitters with AV partners on site. Calibrated on handover morning. Aftercare visits at 6 and 12 months.
The most-specified tones across recent commissions. Bring a fabric, a paint chip, or a Pinterest board, and we'll match it from the sample hall at the showroom.
Farrow & Ball, Little Greene, Paint & Paper Library, or matched to your scheme.
Crown-cut or quarter-sawn from European mills, hand-finished in oil or lacquer.
For hearths, plinths, mantel breaks. Sourced from our slab supplier.
Inlays, handle pulls, shadow gaps, hairline rules.
Every commission is matched against physical samples at the Birmingham showroom. We hand-paint test panels for any colour outside the palette and have them on site within a week.
We publish real investment bands because we respect your time (and ours). Every project is individually quoted, most media commissions land in the ranges below.
We get asked this every week. So here it is in one table: bespoke cabinetry versus the three options you have probably also looked at. No marketing weasel words.
| Specification | Bespoke (Posh Design) ◆ This page | Modular flat-pack | Free-standing TV unit | Wall-mounted only |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Built to the room | Drawn around your walls, ceilings, skirtings. | Cabinet widths in fixed modules; scribed in where possible. | Stock dimensions, gaps at every edge. | No cabinetry; just a screen and brackets. |
| Cable management | Vertical conduit, power isolated from signal. | Surface trunking or rear cut-outs. | Bundle behind the unit, dust-trap. | Visible unless chased into the wall. |
| Ventilation for AV kit | Engineered passive + active cooling. | None or token grilles. | None. Equipment runs hot in a sealed box. | N/A (kit lives elsewhere). |
| Fireplace integration | Flue, heat-rise and screen position planned together. | Limited; most flat-pack ranges exclude fire. | Not possible. | Not without major works. |
| Motorised reveal / hidden TV | Silent actuators, art-mode panels, lift-and-pivot. | Not offered. | Not possible. | Not possible. |
| Finish quality | Hand-painted or hand-finished veneer to order. | Spray-finished MDF in catalogue colours. | Foil-wrap or laminate. | N/A. |
| Lead time | 2–3 months end to end. | 4–8 weeks; install separately. | In stock. | Same week. |
| Guarantee | 10 years on cabinetry, mechanisms, hinges. | 1–2 years, typically. | 12 months. | N/A. Bracket only. |
| Typical investment | From £6k. Most commissions £12k–£28k. | £1.5k–£4k plus install. | £300–£2k. | £80–£400 bracket + install. |
Working displays from our own workshop. Open drawers, compare finishes under real lighting, then talk timelines with a senior designer.
( 13: Book your media wall consultation )
