Bespoke fitted wardrobes, kitchens, and living-space furniture for Ilford. Designed in your home. Built twenty-one miles away at our Wembley workshop. Installed by our own fitters, never subcontractors.
Ilford at a glance
Unit 29, Hallmark Trading Estate
Fourth Way, Wembley
London HA9 0LB
approximately 34 minutes by van
Call 07700142978
Fitted furniture for Ilford, made twenty-one miles away in Wembley.
What Metro manufactures for Ilford.
Three product categories, made in one workshop. Click through to browse the full range.
Fitted Wardrobes
The most common job we do in IG1. Ten ranges across hinged, sliding, and walk-in builds. Every unit is cut to the room's actual dimensions and delivered in sections small enough for a Georgian staircase. Where original cornicing exists, the wardrobe stops below it with a clean shadow gap.
Solid 18mm carcase, hand-painted in Farrow & Ball or Little Greene.
Fitted Kitchens
We started as a wardrobe specialist. Kitchens followed naturally. A big share of our IG1 kitchen work happens in Victorian galleys being opened up, and in canal-side conversions where the cabinetry has to slot in around immovable services. We build the cabinetry. You choose worktops, appliances, and splashbacks.
Full project management from design through installation.
Living & Media Walls
A category that's grown a lot since 2020. Media walls in living rooms, home offices in reception rooms, alcove cabinets flanking original fireplaces, full bedroom suites. Most of these come up as a second project once the wardrobes are in.
Built around existing chimney breasts, alcoves, and architectural features.
What Ilford homes demand of a fitted-furniture maker.
Ilford's housing has recurring quirks. Here is how our workshop handles each on a IG1 project.
A bay window swallows the best wall in the bedroom.
The front bedroom of a Ilford house is often dominated by a splayed bay window. It is the obvious wall for a wardrobe, but a standard unit either blocks the window or leaves awkward dead returns to each side.
We fit floor-to-ceiling wardrobes tight to each side wall flanking the bay, with a low fitted seat and drawers across the bay itself. The window stays clear and the whole wall works as one run.
The chimney-breast alcoves are never the same width.
Like most period Ilford terraces, the back bedroom has a chimney breast with an alcove either side, and the two are rarely equal. One standard carcase for both leaves filler strips on one side and a unit that will not shut on the other.
Each alcove is templated and built on its own, filled floor-to-ceiling and wall to chimney breast. Two different carcases that read as a matched pair from the doorway.
Loft bedrooms lose half the wall to a sloping ceiling.
A Ilford loft conversion adds a bedroom but a sloping ceiling that cuts the usable wall height in half. Freestanding wardrobes simply will not stand under the slope.
We scribe the wardrobe into the eaves, following the roof pitch so units run from floor to slope with no gap above. The lowest part becomes drawers and shoe storage instead of dead space. From our workshop to your home How Metro works with Ilford. Four stages from your first phone call to the day we leave your bedroom cleaner than we found it. 01 Design visit at home A designer comes to you, measures the room properly, asks how you actually use it, and sketches the layout on the spot. Free. No deposit. No pressure. 02 Quote and samples You get a written, itemised quote. Hand-drawn elevations. Physical samples of the doors, paints, and handles you're deciding between. Take your time with it. 03 Built in Wembley Once you sign off the design, your wardrobe is cut, assembled, painted, and quality-checked at our HA9 workshop. Built to your room. Not assembled from standard-size carcases. 04 Fitted by our own team Same Metro team, never subcontractors. Floor protection down before anything else. Install completed in one to four days. Room left swept. 10-year guarantee starts the day we leave. Best-suited Metro ranges for IG1 Which Metro ranges fit Ilford homes best? Four ranges we recommend more than any others in IG1, based on what the area's property actually demands. Hinged Shaker Best for semis Our default for period and inter-war bedrooms, painted in Farrow & Ball or Little Greene, sitting neatly into bays and alcoves. Loft & Eaves Best for conversions Angled units scribed to the roof pitch for loft bedrooms, turning the low eaves into drawers and storage. Built-In Best for alcoves Chimney-breast alcove wardrobes templated individually, filled floor-to-ceiling with no filler strips. Sliding Wardrobes Best for small rooms Where a back bedroom is tight, floor-to-ceiling sliders avoid door swing and add a mirror for light.
How Metro works with Ilford.
Four stages from your first phone call to the day we leave your bedroom cleaner than we found it.
Design visit at home
A designer comes to you, measures the room properly, asks how you actually use it, and sketches the layout on the spot. Free. No deposit. No pressure.
Quote and samples
You get a written, itemised quote. Hand-drawn elevations. Physical samples of the doors, paints, and handles you're deciding between. Take your time with it.
Built in Wembley
Once you sign off the design, your wardrobe is cut, assembled, painted, and quality-checked at our HA9 workshop. Built to your room. Not assembled from standard-size carcases.
Fitted by our own team
Same Metro team, never subcontractors. Floor protection down before anything else. Install completed in one to four days. Room left swept. 10-year guarantee starts the day we leave.
Which Metro ranges fit Ilford homes best?
The ranges we recommend more than any others in IG1, based on what the area's property actually demands.
Hinged Shaker
Best for semisOur default for period and inter-war bedrooms, painted in Farrow & Ball or Little Greene, sitting neatly into bays and alcoves.
Loft & Eaves
Best for conversionsAngled units scribed to the roof pitch for loft bedrooms, turning the low eaves into drawers and storage.
Built-In
Best for alcovesChimney-breast alcove wardrobes templated individually, filled floor-to-ceiling with no filler strips.
Sliding Wardrobes
Best for small roomsWhere a back bedroom is tight, floor-to-ceiling sliders avoid door swing and add a mirror for light.
The full range we build for Ilford.
Every piece below is made at the Wembley workshop and fitted by our own team. Click a category to see the range in detail.
Fitted Wardrobes
Our biggest category. Eight ranges in total. Every wardrobe is cut for your room.
- Hinged Door Wardrobes
- Sliding Door Wardrobes
- Walk-In Wardrobes
- Shaker Wardrobes
- Opulence Wardrobes
- Built-In Wardrobes
- Alcove Wardrobes
- Loft & Eaves Wardrobes
- Under-Stairs Storage
Bedroom Furniture
Drawers, dressing units, bedsides. Designed to match a wardrobe project, or as a stand-alone suite.
- Fitted Bedroom Furniture
- Over-the-Bed Storage
- Dressing Units
- Chest of Drawers
- Bedside Tables
- Wardrobe & Dressing Suites
Living, Kitchens & Office
Outside the bedroom. Media walls, home offices, kitchens, utility rooms, fitted libraries.
- TV & Media Units
- Alcove Storage
- Bar & Drinks Cabinets
- Home Office Furniture
- Built-in Libraries
- Fitted Kitchens
- Utility & Laundry Rooms
Common Ilford wardrobe scenarios.
Most IG1 enquiries fall into a handful of property situations. Below is what each typically looks like.
Front bedroom with a splayed bay
The situation: A family on Cranbrook Road wanted storage on the bay wall. A chain quote blocked half the window with a standard unit.
What they got: Two floor-to-ceiling wardrobes flanking the bay with a fitted window seat and drawers across it. Hand-painted, brass handles. The bay stays the feature of the room.
Back bedroom with unequal chimney alcoves
The situation: Owners frustrated that two previous quotes used one carcase size for both alcoves, leaving gaps.
What they got: Each alcove templated separately and filled floor-to-ceiling under the picture rail. Two carcases that line up perfectly from the doorway.
Loft-conversion main bedroom under the slope
The situation: A new Ilford loft bedroom where freestanding wardrobes could not stand under the sloping ceiling.
What they got: Wardrobes scribed into the eaves following the roof pitch, the low end built out as drawers. Floor-to-slope, no dead space.
Tight box bedroom needing mirror sliders
The situation: A small third bedroom where hinged doors fouled the bed.
What they got: Floor-to-ceiling sliding wardrobe with one mirror panel and internal drawers. Built wall-to-wall with no door swing.
Areas adjacent to Ilford.
If you're on the edge of any of these, the local page may suit better. Same designers either way.
Let's book your free home visit.
A Metro designer comes to your IG1 home. Measures the room. Sketches the options on the spot. Leaves you with samples and a written quote. No deposit. No obligation.