TV Units and Built-In Wall Storage in Nairobi

Cables are the whole problem

A built-in TV wall is straightforward joinery with one genuinely fiddly requirement: everything has to be reachable afterwards. Routers get replaced, decoders fail, someone buys a soundbar.

We plan conduit routes behind the unit, leave draw access, and ventilate any closed compartment holding equipment. A decoder in a sealed cupboard runs hot and dies early, which the owner blames on the decoder.

Fixings depend on the wall

This matters more in Nairobi than people expect, because wall construction varies enormously.

• Machine-cut stone, common across Karen, Muthaiga and Lavington, takes resin anchors well but needs the right drill and patience.
• Concrete block: standard in most newer construction, straightforward.
• Gypsum partition, increasingly common in apartments, will not carry a loaded wall unit on plasterboard fixings alone. It needs the load taken back to studs or a plywood pattress behind.

We check what we are fixing into before quoting, because a wall unit that pulls out of a gypsum partition is a serious accident rather than a defect.

What we make

Full media walls with concealed storage, floating consoles, display and book shelving, bar units, and study or home-office joinery as a continuous run with the rest of the room.

Scale it to the room

The commonest design mistake is a media wall built to fill a wall rather than to suit a room. In a Kilimani apartment a floating console with two closed cabinets reads better and leaves the room feeling larger. Full-height joinery belongs in rooms with the ceiling height to carry it, which in Nairobi generally means the older houses rather than the newer flats.