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Kensington and Chelsea · London
Little Chelsea Loft Storage
Loft storage for your home in Little Chelsea: eaves cupboards, drawers and wardrobes in converted lofts. We visit to measure and go through the design, make the furniture in our workshop and fit it.
- A sloping ceiling with no room for a wardrobe
- A loft room with too many jobs
- A converted loft with no fitted furniture
Loft storage for your home in Little Chelsea
Fitting day, step by step
There is not much for you to do on fitting day. Someone needs to let us in, and the room should already be cleared, as we’ll have talked about at the measuring visit. After that, it is over to us: the floors are covered, the sections come in and the fitting begins. How long fitting takes depends on the length of the eaves and the design, and the fitting days are agreed in your quote. Older London houses often have narrow hallways and tight turns on the stairs, so eaves cupboards are made in sections sized to get through. Floors and stair carpets are protected on the way in and out.
- You get in touch with some details about the loft room.
- At the design visit, we look at the slopes, the eaves and the way up.
- A written quote follows, with the fitting days agreed. You can ask us about any of it.
- We make the cupboards and drawers in our workshop, cut to the slope.
- We fit it in your home and leave it ready to use.
Getting ready for fitting day
- Make sure pets are kept safely away
- Move furniture and belongings away from the wall
- Let us know where the boiler and meters are
Getting a quote
To get a quote for loft storage in Little Chelsea, use our contact form. Let us know the room and the rough idea, plus any rough sizes. Next comes a design visit, followed by a written quote.
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How we make loft storage for Little Chelsea
We build storage in lofts that are already converted or boarded. The conversion itself is not our work, and conversions come under Building Regulations. With the room in place, we can plan the storage. In Little Chelsea, it all begins with a design visit. We make eaves cupboards from MDF made to resist moisture and birch plywood, then spray-painted or hand-painted, and the things people most often want solved are wasted space behind the knee walls and a new loft conversion that needs storage.
A large share of the homes around Little Chelsea were built before 1919, and older houses have lots of odd corners: the space under the stairs, the bay at the front, the alcoves, the hallway recesses and, where the loft has been converted, the eaves. Fitted storage is designed to make those spaces useful, made to follow walls that are seldom true.
The written quote is your record of the job. It sets out the eaves cupboard designed for your room, its materials and its finish, and it’s what the workshop builds to.
- Location
- Little Chelsea (SW10, SW3, SW7)
- Area
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Where it is made
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Boards and paint
- MDF and birch plywood, painted
- Fitting days
- Weekdays (Saturdays if arranged)
- Enquiries
- Our contact form
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Practical tips
None of this takes much effort. Here’s what we suggest:
- Find out what’s behind the eaves, from insulation to vents
- Let us know about parking near your home
- Decide whether you’d prefer drawers, cupboards or both
- Think about hanging space for a loft bedroom
A hand-painted finish is easy to touch up if it gets marked. Keep a note of the colour for later. If anything isn’t right with the storage, get in touch through our contact form and we will talk it through.
Keep sharp or very heavy items away from the painted fronts. Store tools in a box, not loose against the doors. A small chip on a hand-painted finish is easy to touch in.
Flats, blocks and rented homes
Leaseholders should check the lease before anything is fixed to the walls. A lease can require consent from the building owner for alterations, and that’s best sorted before fitting day. We can’t give advice on leases.
We also make and fit furniture for landlords furnishing a let. It’s made from the same moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood as any of our work, with a spray or hand-painted finish.
What prompts loft storage in Little Chelsea
The most common reason is wasted space. The low spaces at the edge of a loft room are hard to use. Built-in storage makes that space useful.
A few of the things people ask us to solve include:
- A dormer that is not being used
- Wasted space behind the knee walls
- A new loft conversion that needs storage
- Standard furniture that won’t go up the loft stairs
Near listed buildings like Chelsea Old Church (all Saints), less than half a mile east of the centre of Little Chelsea, older homes may keep original joinery that eaves cupboards can be designed around. If your own home is listed, check with the council before fixing into original features.
Before you hire any carpenter
- How they handle walls that are not straight
- Whether the route into your home has been checked
- Which materials they’ll use, named in the quote
- How parking will work on your street
Storage in Little Chelsea homes: local notes
The biggest shares of homes in the area around Little Chelsea were built before 1919 (about 67%) and between 1919 and 1939 (about 12%), 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. Within a mile of the centre of Little Chelsea, 25 conservation areas are recorded by Historic England. Historic England says England has around 10,000, and the controls mainly cover the outside of buildings. London’s red routes are run by TfL, and stopping on them is tightly controlled. If your home is on or just off a main road, it’s useful to mention it. It lets us plan the stop before fitting day.
If you live in a flat close to Imperial Wharf station, each piece is planned so it can be carried up and joined together in the room. If you live in a period home close to Church of St Andrew, sloping ceilings in a loft room suit wardrobes cut to the angle.
Little Chelsea is within the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, about 1 mile north-west of Kensington. Our work covers every London borough and the City of London, Little Chelsea included. In Kensington and Chelsea, Little Chelsea is one of the places we cover.
Design visits and fitting in SW10, SW3 and SW7 work the same way as everywhere else we cover. You’ll find streets here like Ann Lane, King's Road and Lamont Road, and we cover homes on all of them for loft storage. Other places close to Little Chelsea include World's End (1 mile south), South Kensington (1 mile north), Chelsea (1 mile north-east), Chelsea Harbour (1 mile south) and Walham Green (1 mile south-west). Other parts of Kensington and Chelsea we cover include Notting Hill (2 miles north-west), Notting Dale (2 miles north-west), Holland Park (2 miles north-west), Bayswater (2 miles north), Kensal Town (3 miles north-west) and North Kensington (3 miles north-west).
What’s near Little Chelsea
The streets we cover here include those near English National Ballet School, The World's End pub and Natural History Museum Library and Archives, among other places. Little Chelsea’s nearest station is Imperial Wharf station, about 0.7 miles south of the centre. Other landmarks nearby include Harrods (1.2 miles north-east) and Chelsea Stadium Tour And Museum (0.6 miles south-west). Green spaces nearby include Battersea Park Lake.
What it’s made from
Doors and drawer fronts
What you see of the storage is mostly its fronts. We make them plain or panelled, with handles to match. Their tops follow the line of the slope.
Hand-painted finish
Hand painting gives a slightly softer look than spraying. It is done on site, in the colour you choose. It can match the skirting and doors.
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Questions from Little Chelsea
Do I need permission for fitted furniture in a conservation area?
Not normally. Conservation area controls are mostly concerned with the outside of buildings, so fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission. Listed buildings are different, as works inside that affect their character may need listed building consent from the council. If you are unsure, the council can confirm.
My home in Little Chelsea is a flat. How do you get the furniture in?
We measure the route in as well as the room: the stairs, landings, lift and doors. Eaves cupboards are made at our workshop in sections sized to fit that route, then assembled in your flat. It is useful to check any building rules and your lease before fitting day.
How is the furniture painted?
There are two options: spray painting, done in the workshop for a smooth, even finish, or hand painting, which can be done on site. The finish is agreed in your quote.
What are your eaves cupboards made from?
We use moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood. Birch plywood gives strength to the carcasses and drawers, while the doors and panels are MDF, which paints well. Everything is finished by spray painting or hand painting.
Do you move sockets or add lighting?
No. Sockets, switches and lighting are for your electrician. We’ll design around them.
Can a wardrobe follow a sloping ceiling?
Yes. Bespoke wardrobes are made to the angle of the ceiling. Hanging goes where there is height, with shelves where it’s low. It’s cut to fit the ceiling and walls exactly.