Media Wall Cost Calculator

Most of the media walls we build in South London land between £4,500 and £6,000 for a feature wall with a TV recess, inset electric fireplace, integrated shelving, and LED lighting. A simpler wall — studwork, TV recess, painted finish, no fire — starts around £2,400. Premium builds with slatted oak or marble-effect cladding and full cabinetry run £5,500 to £7,000. These figures cover the whole job as one package: framework, NICEIC-certified electrics, plastering, joinery, and decoration.

Everything needed for a finished wall. The base figure covers timber stud framework with a ply-reinforced TV mount, the recess sized to your TV, first-fix electrics with NICEIC certification, plasterboarding, skimming, and decoration. Fireplace, joinery, cladding, and lighting are itemised separately in the breakdown so you can see what each choice adds. Hidden cable management for the TV, soundbar, and console is included in the base build. The TV itself is the one thing we don't supply.

A straightforward wall — frame, recess, electrics, plaster, paint — takes 3 to 5 days. Add bespoke cabinetry or cladding and you're looking at 1 to 2 weeks, mostly because plaster needs drying time before decoration and joinery is fitted after the wall is finished. We sequence it so the room is usable in the evenings; a media wall doesn't turn your living room into a building site the way an extension does.

Depends what you're comparing them against. Against a wall-mounted TV with trailing cables and a fireplace you never use, a media wall earns its keep daily — and at £3,500 to £7,000 it's one of the cheapest ways to change how a living room feels. Against moving the budget into a kitchen or bathroom, those add more resale value. Buyers do respond to a well-built media wall in photos, but treat that as a bonus rather than the reason to build one.

No planning permission — it's internal work. Building Regulations only enter the picture through the electrics: new circuits and the fireplace connection must comply with Part P, which is why the electrical work on our media walls is done and certified by our NICEIC-approved electrician. You get the certificate at handover. If a media wall is sold to you without an electrical certificate, the installer has skipped a legal requirement.