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Camden · London
Holborn Loft Storage
For homes in Holborn, we make loft storage from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood. Each piece is finished by spray or by hand, in the colour you choose.
- A converted loft with no fitted furniture
- A loft room with too many jobs
- Seasonal things cluttering the loft room
Loft storage in Holborn
Questions from Holborn
Is Holborn in the area you cover for loft storage?
Yes, Holborn is within the area we cover, which takes in all of Camden and the rest of London. We start with a design visit to measure the room and talk through what you need, and then we send a quote.
Do you cover homes near Farringdon station?
Yes, homes across Camden and the rest of London are within the area we cover. To get started, you can fill in our short enquiry form with a few details about the room.
How is loft storage priced?
Every piece is quoted for your room after the design visit. The size of the room, the amount of storage and the finish all shape the price. To get a quote, fill in our short enquiry form and we will arrange a design visit.
Can you build a wardrobe under a sloping ceiling?
Yes. Bespoke wardrobes are made to the angle of the ceiling. The tall end takes hanging space, and the low end can hold shelves or drawers. It is scribed to the slope and walls.
Do I need permission in a conservation area?
Not normally. Conservation area controls are mostly concerned with the outside of buildings, and furniture inside a house does not normally need it. Listed buildings are different: check with the council’s conservation officer first.
What are your eaves cupboards made from?
We use moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood. The carcasses and drawer boxes are birch plywood, which is strong and holds screws well, while the doors and panels are MDF, which paints well. The finish is spray-painted or hand-painted.
How we make loft storage for Holborn
A dormer can take shelves, a desk or a window seat. Their sides are often angled, and their walls rarely straight. Each piece is scribed to the dormer. It uses space that might otherwise be wasted. We’ll discuss the options in Holborn. If you’re living with an empty dormer that could hold shelves and no wardrobe that fits under the slope, eaves cupboards made from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, finished by spray or by hand can solve it.
Purpose-built flats are home to most households around Holborn, so storage has to be found in the hallway, the recesses and any bay. Each piece is built in sections sized for the route into the flat, then assembled in place. Boilers and fuse boards in a hall cupboard keep the access and ventilation they need.
Where other trades are needed, for example an electrician to move a socket, we point that out. Our quote covers the carpentry: the design, the materials and the finish.
- Place
- Holborn (WC1X, WC1N, EC1R)
- Area
- Camden
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- First step
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Made
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Materials and finish
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- Fitting days
- Weekdays, and Saturdays by arrangement
- Enquiries
- The contact form
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Boards, parts and paint
Spray-painted finish
A spray-painted finish is smooth and even. We spray in the workshop, so the finish is complete before fitting. You choose the colour.
Pull-out drawers
Drawers in the knee wall let you use the deep, low space without crawling in. We size each drawer for what you plan to keep in it. They suit clothes, bedding and boxes.
Loft storage for homes in Holborn
About 44% of the homes in the neighbourhood around Holborn went up before 1919, and about 20% since 2000, based on the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax data. We take that into account at the design visit, since older and newer walls take different fixings. Holborn is partly covered by the Bloomsbury Conservation Area, one of the conservation areas recorded by Historic England. The controls in a conservation area are mostly about the outside of buildings, so furniture fitted inside a house does not normally need planning permission. If you want to be certain, ask the council’s planning team. Near central London, streets tend to be narrow and busy, so the route from the van to your door is planned beforehand.
If you live in a period home close to St Alban's Church, the knee walls of a converted loft can take drawers as well as cupboards. For families living near St Alban's Church of England Primary School, eaves cupboards can be planned around what a family needs to keep, from coats and bags to sports kit.
Holborn is in the London Borough of Camden, about 1 mile north-west of St Pancras. Our work covers every London borough and the City of London, Holborn included. In Camden, Holborn is one of the places we cover, and the borough has 28 places on our list.
Postcode districts we cover here for loft storage: WC1X, WC1N and EC1R. Our area takes in homes on streets like Shoe Lane, Drury Lane and New Square, along with the roads around them, for loft storage and any of our other fitted furniture. The A4 and A40 runs close to Holborn; on busy main roads, unloading eaves cupboards takes a little planning. We also cover the places around Holborn: Farringdon (1 mile east), St Pancras (1 mile north-west), Clare Market (1 mile south), Smithfield (1 mile east) and Temple Bar (1 mile south). Across the rest of Camden, our area takes in Hampstead (4 miles north-west), West Hampstead (4 miles north-west), Agar Town (2 miles north-west), Kentish Town (2 miles north-west), Greenhill (4 miles north-west) and Chalk Farm (2 miles north-west).
Local landmarks in Holborn
In Holborn, that includes homes near City Academy, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School and The Yorkshire Grey pub, among other places. There is a railway station in Holborn itself: Farringdon station. Well-known places in the area include Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine (close by, under half a mile west) and Montfichet's Tower (0.7 miles south-east). For a walk, there’s Barnsbury Wood and Ludgate Hill.
The problems loft storage solve
Most people get in touch because the eaves are going to waste. The low spaces at the edge of a loft room are hard to use. Cupboards and drawers built into the knee wall put it to work.
These come up often when people first get in touch:
- Ready-made wardrobes too big for the stairs
- A sloping ceiling with no room for a wardrobe
- Seasonal things cluttering the loft room
- A new loft conversion that needs storage
If your home is as old as some of the listed buildings nearby, such as The Chapel, original features like shutters, panelling and fireplaces are worth designing around. For a listed home, fixing into original features can need listed building consent.
Before you hire any carpenter
- Do they scribe the furniture to the walls?
- How parking will work on your street
- Whether the route into your home has been checked
- How doors and drawers are fitted
What happens on fitting day
However carefully a piece is made in the workshop, it still has to meet the room, and fitting day is where that happens. Few walls in older London homes are truly flat or square, so each edge that meets a wall is scribed to follow it. How long the fitting itself takes depends on the shape of the room and the number of cupboards and drawers, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. In a block without a lift, every section goes up the stairs, so it is sized to be manageable. The stair turns and landings set the limit. The pieces are assembled in the flat.
- To begin, tell us about the room on our contact form; a brief note on the loft and the storage you want is enough.
- At the design visit we measure the knee walls and the angle of each slope at more than one point, as they’re rarely even.
- 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.
- On fitting day the units are set level and scribed to the slope and the knee wall.
Before we arrive
- Keep pets out of the room and the hallway
- Take anything hanging off the wall we are fitting to
- Clear the hallway and stairs so the sections can come through
Arranging a design visit
It’s useful to see the room before we come. Pictures of the whole wall, the corners and the ceiling line give us a good feel for the space. To send them over, send us a few details through our contact form, and we will suggest a time for a design visit.
Advice
Flats, blocks and rented homes
Landlords furnishing a let use fitted furniture too, often to make the most of a small or tricky room. The materials are the same as for any home: moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, with a spray or hand-painted finish.
In a flat, the route in matters as much as the room. At the design visit, we measure the stairs, the landings, any lift and the doors, so each section is sized to get through.
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When is bespoke worth it?
Where bespoke earns its keep is in rooms that are not square. In period homes, walls lean, floors slope and the alcoves on each side are often different widths, which leaves standard units with gaps at the sides and top.
Standard units come in set widths and heights, so there’s often a strip of wasted space at the side or above. Fitted furniture is made to the room’s measurements, so it can use the full height and width.