Bespoke Media Walls in Southport

Set-out is the whole job

We start from the screen and the sofa. Recess depth comes from the bracket you are actually using, recess height from where your eyeline lands when you are sitting down, not standing up looking at a wall.

Then the services: the bracket backing board, power and HDMI inside the recess, the feed for the fire, and any lighting into the alcoves. All of it goes in at frame stage while the wall is still open, which is why the finished thing has no visible trunking anywhere.

Fires, alcoves and lighting

Electric linear fires need a specific opening size and clearances, and those come from the manufacturer's figures for the exact model you are buying, not an approximate hole that gets adjusted later. Pick the fire before the frame goes up.

Alcoves either side give the wall its symmetry and are where most of the character comes from. They can be squared and simple, stepped, or run full-height, with LED strip set into the returns so the light washes down the back rather than glaring out at you.

Boarded, beaded and skimmed to a finish

Once it is framed and wired, the wall is boarded, every arris beaded and every joint taped, then skimmed flat. On a media wall the edges are everything. A recess return that is not straight is glaringly obvious once the TV is lit and the room lights are low.

It comes back to you ready for decoration. Some people paint it to match the room, others go darker on the media wall alone so the recesses read deeper. We are happy to talk through what tends to work before you commit.

When people call us about this

• Cables and a soundbar on show under a wall-mounted TV
• A chimney breast alcove arrangement that wastes the space around it
• Wanting an electric linear fire built in rather than standing in front
• A long blank wall in a knock-through with nothing to anchor it
• Needing storage or display alcoves that look built-in, not bolted on
• A new build or extension where the room has no focal point yet