A full height media wall looks simple on a mood board: a panel from floor to ceiling, a screen in the middle, some shelving around it. In a real villa or hotel project it is a built-in joinery item that touches the wall structure, the AV cabling, the lighting circuit and the finish schedule all at once. That is exactly why Santerson Full Height Media Walls is configured project by project rather than ordered off a shelf. The more information you bring when you first contact our team, the fewer revision rounds and the cleaner the price you get back.

Start with the room, not the cabinet

Send the floor plan or a marked-up elevation of the wall first. We need the overall width and floor-to-ceiling height of the run, plus anything that interrupts it: skirting, a radiator, a switch plate, a doorway, a column, or a window head. Please note whether the ceiling is level, and whether there is a cornice, shadow gap or cove light at the top. A 10 mm difference between the drawn height and the built height is invisible on paper and obvious on site.

If the wall already exists, a few photographs from straight on, plus one from each side, tell us more than a written description. If the project is still at drawing stage, a PDF of the relevant elevations is enough. As a one-stop project furnishing supplier we work from either format, and our design team can turn a marked-up plan into production drawings for your confirmation.

Confirm the screen before you confirm the carcass

The screen drives the whole layout, so tell us what is going in the wall:

• Screen size and whether it is wall-mounted on a bracket or recessed into the panel.
• How the screen sits relative to the panel face, and whether you want it flush or proud.
• Where the power outlet, aerial, network point and HDMI path run, and whether those points are already fixed on site.
• How the equipment is reached: a service hatch, a sliding panel, or an open niche at the back.

Ventilation matters more than most buyers expect. Closed cabinets trap heat, so tell us what sources of heat are inside the carcass and how much clearance you can give them. If you have not settled on the screen yet, say so and we will design the opening to a range rather than guess a number. The same rule applies if you are weighing a full height built-in against one of the Santerson Wall Mounted Media Walls configurations: send the wall condition and the screen plan, and we can advise which approach suits the build.

Decide what the wall has to store

Send us a simple list of what the household or guest will keep in the wall: consoles and speakers, games and books, glassware, blankets, anything tall. That list decides the mix of open shelving, closed doors and drawers, and it decides the shelf depths and load ratings we build to. Tell us which items should be visible and which should be hidden, because the open-to-closed ratio is the single biggest driver of how the finished wall reads in the room.

For the parts of the wall you would rather not see at all, our Santerson Integrated Media Storage range covers closed storage combined with the media zone, so the screen and the clutter can share one clean elevation.

Bring your finish and lighting decisions

Send the finish schedule for the room, or at least the door fronts, so the media wall can be matched to the rest of the joinery. Specify the substrate and surface you want, the colour or veneer, and the sheen, and tell us if the wall sits next to a fireplace, a window with strong sun, or a bathroom wall where humidity is a factor. Niche depths, reveal sizes and whether edges are square or eased are small decisions now and expensive ones later, so include them with your drawing.

Lighting needs the same treatment. If you want lit niches or a backlit panel, tell us where the driver can be accessed, what switching you have, and whether the light is warm or cool. Where integrated LED is part of the design, we align the panel cut-outs and the wiring route at drawing stage rather than on site; you can see how the lit versions of the range are specified under the Santerson Backlit Feature Walls listing.

Give the project context: quantities, dates, delivery

Tell us how many walls the project needs and whether the same design repeats across units; repeating sets are built to one drawing, and that is where a made-to-measure supplier earns its keep. Give us the on-site completion date and the date the joinery must arrive, not the date you would like to order. We ship by sea, air or rail with door-to-door delivery and the customs paperwork that goes with it, so we also need the delivery address, the recipient, and who handles customs clearance in your market. Site access, lift size and parking restrictions are worth mentioning in the same message.

What we will send back

With the drawings, the screen plan and the finish schedule in hand, we go through the brief and come back with a design proposal and our questions, we quote and confirm the details with you, then we move to production, shipment and follow-up. Anything we cannot settle from your information gets raised at the first round, not at the packing stage.

Before you enquire, check three things: do the wall dimensions include the floor finish; is the screen decision firm enough to size an opening; and is the finish schedule for the rest of the room available? If you can answer those three, send the plan and we can price the wall rather than estimate it. Contact us with your drawings, quantities and site dates, and our team will confirm what is fixed, what is optional, and what still needs a decision from your side.