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Bexley · London
Loft Storage in Coldblow
Loft storage in Coldblow: eaves cupboards, drawers and wardrobes in converted lofts. We make each piece in our workshop and fit it in your home, with a spray or hand-painted finish.
- No wardrobe that fits under the slope
- A loft room that still feels unfinished
- Low eaves that nobody can use
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About our loft storage in Coldblow
Dormers are a natural place for shelving or a small desk. Their sides are often angled, and their walls rarely straight. We scribe the furniture to follow them. It adds storage without taking up the main floor. We’ll talk through the options in Coldblow. If your home has a loft room with too many jobs and space under the eaves going to waste, eaves cupboards made from moisture-resistant MDF and strong birch plywood, with a painted finish can solve it.
With interwar houses or semis a big part of the picture around Coldblow, loft conversions are common, and they leave low eaves and sloping ceilings. Those spaces, along with bays and hallways, are where fitted storage can add the most. We build storage in lofts that are already converted or boarded.
The furniture is built in our workshop after you’ve had the quote and decided to go ahead. It describes the design, the materials and the finish agreed at the visit, so you can check every detail beforehand.
- Where
- Coldblow (DA5)
- Borough
- Bexley
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- First step
- We visit, measure, then quote
- Where it is made
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Made from
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- Working days
- Weekdays, and Saturdays by arrangement
- Contact
- Our contact form
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
When you need someone else
It helps to know what’s outside our work before you plan:
- Altering the structure of the loft
- Approval for structural changes
- Converting the loft itself, which is not our work
Not sure whether your space suits loft storage? You can send us a few details through our contact form and we will tell you. Our process from visit to fitting.
What it is made from
- Spray-painted finish
- Birch plywood
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Hand-painted finish
- Eaves doors and drawers
- Sloped wardrobe tops
How it is made
Plinths and scribe strips
The floor in a loft room is rarely perfectly level. A plinth or adjustable feet let us set the storage level, so everything opens and closes as it should.
Doors and drawer fronts
Fronts are made from moisture-resistant MDF and painted to your colour. Angled fronts are cut to follow the slope, keeping the lines neat.
Could you do it yourself?
A confident DIYer can manage simple shelves or a standard wardrobe in a square room. Sloping ceilings, uneven floors and lath-and-plaster walls make it harder, because scribing and the right fixings start to matter.
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.
Questions from Coldblow
I live near Bexley station. Is that in your area?
Yes. We cover all of Bexley and the rest of London. To get started, you can send us a few details through our contact form with a few details about the room, and tell us about parking and access at the same time.
Can you make loft storage for a home in Coldblow?
Yes. Coldblow is one of the places we work, along with the rest of Bexley and London. You can message us from the contact page to arrange a design visit.
Can you come on a Saturday?
Yes, we can arrange Saturdays. Let us know when you first get in touch.
Do I need permission in a conservation area?
Not normally. Fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission, even in a conservation area. If the building is listed, works affecting its character can need listed building consent, so check with the council first.
How long is the fitting for eaves storage?
How long fitting takes depends on how much storage you want in the loft, and your quote sets out the fitting days. The storage is made in our workshop first, so the time in your home is spent fitting. We work tidily and keep the stairs and landing as clear as we can.
Do you do the electrics?
No. We are carpenters, so electrical work is for your electrician. We can plan cable routes into the design, and new sockets should be in place before fitting day.
Fitting day, step by step
Period rooms often have skirting boards, picture rails, cornices or coving for the furniture to meet. We cut and scribe the furniture around them on site. How long the fitting takes depends on the length of the eaves and the design, and your quote sets out the fitting days. It helps to clear the room and the route before we arrive. Fitting day starts with protecting the floors and setting out the pieces. The pieces are levelled, fitted to the walls and fixed back.
- You get in touch with a few details about the loft room.
- We visit to measure and look at what’s behind the knee walls, and go through the design with you.
- A quote in writing follows, with the fitting days agreed.
- Your storage is built in our workshop, shaped to the loft.
- The storage is fitted and set level, ready to fill, with the doors and drawers checked with you.
How to prepare
- Keep pets out of the room and the hallway
- Take down pictures, mirrors and shelves from the wall
- Let us know if your street is in a controlled parking zone
How to get a quote
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 written quote follows the visit for you to look over. To arrange the visit, use our contact form.
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Fitted storage in Coldblow
About 44% of the homes in the area around Coldblow went up between 1945 and 1972, and about 22% between 1919 and 1939, in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. We take that into account during the design visit, since older and newer walls take different fixings. The National Heritage List records 10 entries within half a mile of the centre of Coldblow. You can check whether a particular building is listed on Historic England’s list. Controlled parking zones are run by the boroughs, so the rules in Bexley are set locally. If parking near you is controlled, a visitor permit or a bay suspension may be needed, and the council arranges suspensions, often with notice. Let us know about parking during the design visit.
Close to Braeburn Park? Eaves cupboards can be designed to hold outdoor kit, from walking boots to picnic things. For a family home near Maypole Primary School, deep drawers suit the bulky things families collect, from scooters to swimming kit. If you live in a flat close to Bexley station, each piece is planned so it can be carried up and joined together in the room.
Coldblow is about 3 miles west of Sidcup, part of the London Borough of Bexley. Our work covers every London borough and the City of London, Coldblow included. We list Coldblow among 27 places we cover in Bexley.
We work across the DA5 postcode area for loft storage. If your home is on a street like St Mary's Road, Dartford Road and Wansunt Road, or close by, we can arrange a design visit for loft storage. If you are just outside Coldblow, we also cover North Cray (1 mile south-west) and Bexley (1 mile west). Other parts of Bexley we cover include Sidcup (3 miles west), Welling (3 miles north-west), Erith (3 miles north), Belvedere (3 miles north), Northumberland Heath (2 miles north) and Lessness Heath (3 miles north).
Landmarks near Coldblow
The streets we cover here include those near St Columba's Catholic Boys' School, Beths Grammar School and The Old Wick pub and the streets around them. Coldblow’s nearest station is Bexley station, about 0.6 miles west of the centre. A little further out are Bexley Hospital (1.9 miles north-west) and Bexley Museum (0.7 miles north). Open spaces near Coldblow include Wansunt Pit.
Flats, blocks and rented homes
A lot of London’s terraced houses are now converted flats, which often brings a shared hall and tight turns on the stairs. We plan the size of each section around it, once we have measured the way in.
For flats on red routes or busy main roads, unloading takes some planning. Red routes are run by TfL and have strict stopping rules, so it’s worth raising during the design visit.