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Tower Hamlets · London
Loft Storage in Bow Common
In Bow Common, we design loft storage around the room you actually have. We design your eaves cupboard at a visit to your home, make it in our workshop and fit it.
- A sloping ceiling with no room for a wardrobe
- A loft room that still feels unfinished
- A loft room that doubles as an office or guest room
Need loft storage in Bow Common?
Before and after fitting day
People planning loft storage often ask about these. They’re worth knowing whatever the room:
- Make room so the whole loft can be measured
- Choose a calm colour for the loft
- Let us know about parking at the measuring visit
- Think about hanging space for a loft bedroom
Wiping the fronts with a soft, damp cloth is normally all they need. Dry them afterwards, and avoid abrasive pads and strong solvents. Handles and drawer edges pick up marks first.
Keep sharp or very heavy items away from the painted fronts. Put tools in a case so they do not knock the paint. A small chip on a hand-painted finish is easy to touch in.
About our loft storage in Bow Common
A loft room can hold a great deal of storage, if the low spaces are used well. Our loft storage includes eaves cupboards, knee-wall drawers, wardrobes under sloping ceilings and dormer shelving, each shaped to the room. In Bow Common, as everywhere we work, it begins with a visit to measure and plan. People typically come to us about a boarded loft that’s hard to keep organised and unused space in a dormer, and the answer is made in our workshop from MDF made to resist moisture and birch plywood, then spray-painted or hand-painted.
A hall in a home built since 2000 is often compact, with several doors leading off it, which leaves little wall for storage. Around Bow Common, many homes were built since 2000, so that’s worth planning for. A shallow cupboard can take coats, shoes and the vacuum cleaner without blocking a door.
A quote in writing is the clearest record of what we have agreed. It sets out the eaves cupboard designed for your room, what it is made from and how it is finished, and it is what the workshop builds to.
- Where
- Bow Common (E14, E3, E1)
- Area
- Tower Hamlets
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- Design visit, then a written quote
- Made
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Materials and finish
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- Fitting days
- Weekdays, and Saturdays by prior arrangement
- Enquiries
- The contact form
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Flat-pack or bespoke?
Off-the-shelf furniture can be a sensible choice. If the walls are straight and the space suits standard sizes, it often does the job.
Long shelves are where off-the-shelf often struggles. How much a shelf bends depends on its span, depth and load, and long runs need a thicker shelf, a lip along the front or a support. That’s something we plan for in the design.
From workshop to your room
Every fitting follows the same order: floors are protected, the sections come in, everything is levelled, scribed to the walls, fixed and finished. Then the room is tidied and we look over the work with you. How long the fitting takes depends on the shape of the room and the number of cupboards and drawers, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. On the day, floors are covered first and the sections brought in. Each piece is levelled and fixed to suit plasterboard or block. Hand-painted finishes can be completed once the furniture is in.
- You get in touch and let us know about your converted or boarded loft, and how you get up to it.
- We visit to measure the eaves and slopes and go through the design.
- You receive a written quote for the storage we have discussed.
- Your storage is made in our workshop and painted to your chosen colour. We use moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- We fit it in your home, scribed to the slopes and the walls.
Before fitting day
- Clear the area where the furniture is going
- Keep pets in another room while we work
- Check the building’s rules for trades and lift bookings
Getting a quote
For a quote for loft storage in Bow Common, drop us a line using the contact form. Let us know the room and the rough idea, with sizes if you have them. We’ll arrange a design visit, then send a written quote.
Advice
What loft storage cannot fix
We design, make and fit the furniture. That means:
- Approval for structural changes
- Structural changes, like cutting into rafters or joists
- Building work to turn a loft into a room
If in doubt, you can get in touch through our contact form and describe the room before you arrange a visit. How it works.
Boards, parts and finishes
- Eaves doors and drawers
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Sloped wardrobe tops
- Spray-painted finish
- Birch plywood
- Hand-painted finish
Pricing loft storage in Bow Common
We quote each job after the design visit, because no two rooms are the same. This is what makes the difference:
- Walls and floors that are out of level or out of square
- Stairs, lifts and the route to the room
- The internal fittings
- Where a van can park, like a permit bay or a bay suspension
How it’s painted is part of the price: spray painting happens in the workshop, and hand painting can be done in your home. The written quote reflects your choice, along with the size and fittings.
Getting in touch
Some details help us understand the job before we visit. It’s useful to include:
- Anything fixed to the wall that the furniture needs to work around
- A few photos of the space, taken from the doorway and from each corner
- What you’d like to store or use the space for
- Any ideas or images you’ve saved
The quote is built from the design visit. We take full measurements, see how true the walls and floors are and work through the design together. A quote in writing follows the visit, so you can take your time with it. To arrange the visit, use our contact form.
Common questions about loft storage
Is Bow Common in the area you cover for loft storage?
Yes. We cover all of Tower Hamlets and the rest of London, and Bow Common is part of that. We start with a design visit to measure the room and talk through what you need, followed by a quote.
I live in a flat in Bow Common. How will the furniture get up the stairs?
At the design visit, we measure the way in not just the room. The furniture is made in sections that fit the stairs and lift, and put together in the room. It helps to check any building rules and your lease before fitting day.
Is an outside wall a problem for fitted furniture?
An outside wall can be colder and damper than an inside one, so ventilation behind and inside the furniture helps, which helps avoid condensation and mould. Any damp needs sorting by the right specialist before fitting.
Do you move sockets or add lighting?
No. Any new wiring, sockets or lights need an electrician. We’ll design around them.
My walls aren’t straight. Is that a problem?
It’s something we deal with all the time. We trim the edges to follow the wall and level the base, so it sits tight to the room.
What happens at the design visit?
We measure the space and discuss the design, materials and finish. We look at the walls, floors and anything the furniture has to work around, then send a written quote.
Loft storage for homes in Bow Common
In the streets around Bow Common, the largest groups of homes date from the years since 2000 (about 48%) and between 1945 and 1972 (about 23%), on the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures for 2025. Knowing roughly when a home was built helps, because walls and fixings change from one era to the next. 22 conservation areas have at least part of their area less than a mile from the middle of Bow Common. England has around 10,000 in all, and their controls are mainly about the outside of buildings, so fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission. Purpose-built flats are home to about 83% of households in the neighbourhood around Bow Common, going by Census 2021 figures from the ONS. In a block, each section is sized to get up the stairs or into the lift and through the door. Building management rules on lifts, deliveries and working hours are worth checking early.
For a family home near Stebon Primary School, a place for each person’s coat and shoes stops the hallway filling up. Near listed buildings like Church of St Anne, about 0.5 miles south-west of the centre of Bow Common, older homes may keep original joinery that eaves cupboards can be designed around. For a listed home, fixing into original features may need listed building consent. Close to Bartlett Park? Eaves cupboards can be designed to hold outdoor kit, from walking boots to picnic things.
Bow Common is about 2 miles west of Whitechapel, part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Anywhere in Bow Common, the process is the same: a design visit, a written quote, furniture made in our workshop and fitting in your home. In Tower Hamlets, Bow Common is one of the places we cover.
Every address in E14, E3 and E1 is within our area for loft storage. If your home is on a street such as Market Way, Knapp Road and Thomas Road, or close by, we can arrange a design visit for loft storage. We also cover the places around Bow Common: Limehouse (1 mile west), Bromley (1 mile north-east), Mile End (1 mile north-west), Poplar (1 mile south) and Canary Wharf (1 mile south). Across the rest of Tower Hamlets, our area takes in Whitechapel (2 miles west), Spitalfields (2 miles west), Tower Hill (2 miles west), Bethnal Green (2 miles north-west), Cambridge Heath (2 miles north-west) and St George in the East (2 miles west).
Around Bow Common
We fit furniture in homes around The Widow's Son pub and Langdon Park Secondary School and the streets around them. The nearest railway station is Limehouse station, about 0.8 miles south-west of the centre. Nearby you will also find Museum of the Book (0.5 miles south-west) and St Clement's Hospital (0.6 miles north-west). Green spaces nearby include Lavender Pond.