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Waltham Forest · London
Bakers Arms Loft Storage
Eaves cupboards, drawers and wardrobes in converted lofts, for homes in Bakers Arms. We make each piece in our workshop and fit it in your home, with a spray or hand-painted finish.
- Boxes and suitcases with no home
- A dormer that isn’t being used
- Space under the eaves going to waste
Loft storage designed for your room
Loft storage in Bakers Arms
Loft rooms are often bedrooms, so storage for clothes matters. Wardrobes under the slope, drawers in the knee wall and shelves in the dormer can all work together. Designed as one, they give the room calm, consistent lines. For a home in Bakers Arms, it’s planned around your things. If your home has a loft room that still feels unfinished and a dormer that isn’t being used, eaves cupboards made from moisture-resistant MDF and strong birch plywood, with a painted finish can solve it.
In streets where many homes were built before 1919, as they were around Bakers Arms, under-stairs cupboards in older terraces often house the meters or the fuse board. Those have to stay reachable, so any storage is designed around them. Sash and bay windows are common in houses of that age too, and good places for seating with storage below.
The written quote is your record of the job. It describes the eaves cupboard we’ve designed for the room, what it is made from and how it is finished.
- Where
- Bakers Arms (E17, E10, E11)
- Area
- Waltham Forest
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- Design visit, then a written quote
- Making
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Made from
- MDF and birch plywood, painted
- When we fit
- Weekdays (Saturdays if arranged)
- Contact
- Our contact form
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
Made for the room, or bought in a box?
Off-the-shelf wardrobes often don’t fit up narrow loft stairs. Our storage is made in sections sized for the route. That makes it possible to fit large pieces in a small loft. Tall ceilings in older homes leave a band of empty wall above standard furniture, wasting space that could hold things you rarely use. Built-in pieces can run to the cornice or the picture rail.
Parking is part of the price picture in London. The boroughs run controlled parking zones across much of the city, so we may need a visitor permit, a paid bay or a suspended bay. It helps to talk about parking during the design visit, so it can be planned.
Why work with us in Bakers Arms
- Saturday visits and fitting by arrangement
- Designed for the room you have
- Edges scribed to follow your walls
- Moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood
See our comparison of bespoke and off-the-shelf or what a quote should include.
Boards, parts and paint
Spray-painted finish
Spraying gives a smooth, even surface. We spray in the workshop, so the finish is complete before fitting. You choose the colour.
Birch plywood
Its layered build gives birch plywood its strength. It goes into the carcasses, the shelves and the drawers, and its edge can be left visible or painted.
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What else we make in Bakers Arms
Bespoke or off-the-shelf?
Shop-bought shelves can sag over a long span. Span, depth and the weight on it decide whether a shelf sags, so a long run needs a thicker shelf, a stiffening lip or a support. We design shelves with that in mind.
Cost matters, and it’s fair to say so: flat-pack is normally cheaper to buy. Bespoke earns its place where the room is awkward, space is tight or you want the furniture to look part of the house.
Questions from Bakers Arms
Will parking be an issue for fitting furniture in Bakers Arms?
It can be, depending on whether your street is in a controlled parking zone. Depending on the street, a visitor permit, a paid bay or a bay suspension through the council may be needed, and suspensions often need notice. It helps to let us know about parking during the design visit, so we can plan the day around it.
Does a conservation area in or near Bakers Arms affect fitted furniture?
Usually not: conservation area rules mainly cover the outside of buildings, and fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission. If your home is listed, internal works that affect its character may need listed building consent, so check with the council first. The council’s planning or conservation team can tell you if in doubt.
How long will the loft storage fitting take?
The time the fitting takes depends on how much storage you want in the loft, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. Every part is made at our workshop before we arrive. Saturday fitting is possible by arrangement.
Is an outside wall a problem for fitted furniture?
It can be done with some care: ventilation behind and inside the furniture helps avoid condensation and mould. Damp treatment isn’t something we do, so any damp needs sorting first.
How is the furniture painted?
You can choose between two finishes: by spray or by hand. A spray finish is smooth and even, while a hand-painted one is easy to touch up later.
What do you do at the measuring visit?
We measure the room, check how level the walls and floors are and go through the design with you. We will also ask about access and parking, and a quote in writing follows.
Flats, conversions and lettings
Blocks of flats often have their own rules on lift bookings, entry systems and times for trades. Tell us about them at the design visit, so fitting day is planned around them.
In a managed block, the building manager or concierge may need notice before we arrive. Lifts sometimes need to be booked, and the lift size helps decide how big each section can be. Let us know about it when you contact us.
From workshop to your room
Once the main sections are fixed in place, we hang any doors and fit any drawers or lids. We adjust each one so the gaps line up and it closes cleanly. How long fitting takes depends on the shape of the room and the number of cupboards and drawers, and your quote sets out the fitting days. On fitting day in an older house, the main job is scribing to walls and levelling on floors that slope, so each piece is trimmed and adjusted on site. Floors are protected, and dust is kept down as far as possible. Parking can be tight on terraced streets, so let us know about permits and bays at the design visit.
- To begin, message us from the contact page; a brief note on the loft and the storage you want is enough.
- We visit to measure the slopes and eaves and talk through cupboards, drawers and wardrobes under them.
- Your written quote sets out the storage and the finish.
- In our workshop we build each section from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood to follow the slope.
- We fit the storage in the loft, trimming the edges so they meet the ceiling neatly, with a spray-painted or hand-painted finish.
Getting ready for fitting day
- Empty the space we’ll be working in
- Let us know if your street is in a controlled parking zone
- Let us know where the boiler and meters are
Ask for a quote
To get a quote, message us from the contact page and tell us a little about the room and roughly what you’d like. We then arrange a design visit to measure and talk through the design, and a quote in writing follows.
Related advice
Fitted storage in Bakers Arms
Homes built before 1919 make up about 61% of the housing in the neighbourhood around Bakers Arms, with about 11% built between 1919 and 1939, in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. That matters for eaves cupboards, as the build era decides whether a wall is solid brick, lath and plaster, block or plasterboard. Near the centre of Bakers Arms, Historic England’s list includes Church of St Barnabas and St James the Greater (Grade II*), less than half a mile west, and Bakers Almshouses (Grade II), less than half a mile west. If you live in a listed building, fixing into or taking out original features such as panelling can require listed building consent. The council’s conservation officer is the person to ask before work starts. More than half of the homes in the area around Bakers Arms (about 61%) were built before 1919, based on the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax data. Loft conversions are common in London terraces, and they leave low eaves and sloping ceilings that storage can use; we build storage once the loft is converted or boarded.
If your home is one of the older houses near St Stephen's, sloping ceilings in a loft room suit wardrobes cut to the angle. For a flat near Leyton Midland Road station, the route in is measured as well as the room, and the sections are sized to fit it. Sutton House, about 2.5 miles south-west, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. For a period home anywhere nearby, sloping ceilings in a loft room suit wardrobes cut to the angle.
Bakers Arms is within the London Borough of Waltham Forest, about 1 mile north-west of Walthamstow. We cover Bakers Arms as part of our work across Waltham Forest. We cover places right across Waltham Forest.
We cover every part of E17, E10 and E11 for loft storage. We cover homes on streets like Ivy Road, Ely Road and Elm Road, whether you want loft storage or another piece made for the room. The A112 runs close to Bakers Arms; on busy main roads, unloading eaves cupboards takes a little planning. We also cover the places around Bakers Arms: Walthamstow Village (1 mile north), Leyton (1 mile south), Leyton Grange (1 mile south), Walthamstow (1 mile north-west) and Upper Walthamstow (1 mile north-east). Other parts of Waltham Forest we cover include Chingford (3 miles north), Holloway Down (2 miles south-east), Higham Hill (2 miles north-west), Hale End (2 miles north), Chingford Hatch (3 miles north) and Highams Park (2 miles north). Being one of the larger places in Waltham Forest, Bakers Arms is covered for loft storage and everything else we make.
Around Bakers Arms
Our area takes in the homes around The European pub, Warwick School for Boys and Leyton Sixth Form College. The closest station to Bakers Arms is Leyton Midland Road station, roughly 0.5 miles south-east of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Wanstead Hospital (1.8 miles east) and 17 & Central (0.7 miles north-west). Green spaces nearby include Hollow Pond.