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Kingston upon Thames · London
Motspur Park Loft Storage
For homes in Motspur Park, we make loft storage from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood. The finish is spray painted or hand painted, in a colour agreed with you.
- A boarded loft with no proper shelving
- Ready-made wardrobes too big for the stairs
- Boxes and suitcases with no home
Ask about loft storage in Motspur Park
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, so it sits neatly against the room. The time the fitting takes depends on the length of the eaves and the design, and the fitting days are agreed in your quote. Interwar houses typically have a straight run of stairs and a reasonable hallway, but the route in is still measured, not just the room. The furniture comes in sections and is put together where it’s going.
- It starts when you contact us about storage in your loft, whether it’s a converted room or a boarded space.
- At the design visit, we look at the slopes, the eaves and the way up.
- A quote in writing follows, with the fitting days agreed. You can ask us about any of it.
- Your storage is built in our workshop, shaped to the loft, from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- The storage is fitted and set level, ready to fill.
Preparing the room
- Have your electrician move any sockets or switches beforehand
- Clear the area where the furniture is going
- If you live in a block, book the lift and tell the building manager
Arranging a design visit
To get a quote for loft storage in Motspur Park, drop us a line using the contact form. Let us know the room and the rough idea. Next comes a design visit, followed by a quote in writing.
Advice
How we make loft storage for Motspur Park
Sloping ceilings make standard wardrobes hard to fit. A wardrobe made for the slope follows its angle, with hanging where there is height and shelves or drawers lower down. It makes the most of the room’s height. The design visit in Motspur Park is where we work it out. People usually come to us about needing storage in a loft office and a sloping ceiling with no room for a wardrobe, and the answer is made in our workshop from birch ply and moisture-resistant MDF, painted by hand or sprayed.
Landings in houses from between the wars are often roomier than in a Victorian terrace, and that space can take shallow fitted storage. If yours is one of the interwar houses, semis or detached homes that make up much of the housing around Motspur Park, the landing is worth a look as well as the hall. Any boiler or hot water cylinder keeps the access and ventilation its maker asks for.
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
- Motspur Park (KT3, SW20, KT2)
- Area
- Kingston upon Thames
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- We visit, measure, then quote
- Where it’s made
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Materials and finish
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- When we fit
- Weekdays; Saturdays on request
- Enquiries
- Send us a message
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Loft storage for homes in Motspur Park
Homes built before 1919 make up about 34% of the housing in the area around Motspur Park, with about 31% built between 1919 and 1939, based on the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax data. It is a good starting point, though every room is still measured, as two homes of the same age rarely match. Within a mile of the centre of Motspur Park, 7 conservation areas are recorded by Historic England. England has around 10,000 in all, and their controls are mostly concerned with the outside of buildings. Red routes are run by TfL, with tight limits on where and when vehicles can stop. If your home in Motspur Park is on or near a main road, tell us during the design visit. It lets us plan the stop before fitting day.
Near listed buildings like The Royal Oak Public House, under half a mile south-west of the centre of Motspur Park, 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. If your children go to St Matthew's CofE Primary School or a school nearby, a place for each person’s coat and shoes stops the hallway filling up.
Motspur Park is within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, about 2 miles west of Kingston upon Thames. Motspur Park is part of the area we cover, and the process is the same everywhere we work. Motspur Park is one of 16 places on our list for Kingston upon Thames.
Design visits and fitting in KT3, SW20 and KT2 work the same way as everywhere else we cover. Our area takes in homes on streets like Traps Lane, Coombe Road and Coombe Lane, along with the roads around them, for loft storage and any of our other fitted furniture. Motspur Park sits close to the A238. If your home is on one of them, tell us at the design visit, as some main roads have strict stopping rules. Close by, we also work in New Malden (1 mile south-west), West Barnes (1 mile south-east), Coombe (1 mile north-west), Raynes Park (1 mile south-east) and Copse Hill (1 mile north-east). Other parts of Kingston upon Thames we cover include Kingston upon Thames (2 miles west), Surbiton (2 miles south-west), Hampton Wick (3 miles west), Chessington (4 miles south-west), Seething Wells (3 miles south-west) and Hook (4 miles south-west).
Local landmarks in Motspur Park
In Motspur Park, that includes homes near The Royal Oak Public House, Ursuline Preparatory School and Coombe Girls' School. For rail, the closest station is New Malden station, about 0.5 miles south-west of the centre. A little further out are Atkinson Morley Hospital (0.8 miles north-east) and Wimbledon Museum (1.7 miles north-east). Not far away are Fishpond Wood and Beverley Meads.
Your questions about loft storage in Motspur Park
Will a conservation area stop me having loft storage fitted in Motspur Park?
Typically not: conservation area rules mainly cover the outside of buildings, and 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.
Can parking be tricky on fitting day in Motspur Park?
It depends on the street, as many London boroughs run controlled parking zones. 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 at the measuring visit, so the day can be planned around it.
Does someone need to be home during the fitting?
We need access, so someone has to let us in. You don’t need to watch us work.
Do pictures help?
Yes, they help. A few pictures of the room, from floor to ceiling, tell us a lot, especially with rough measurements. To send them, fill in our short enquiry form.
Is it possible to fit a wardrobe under the slope?
Yes. Bespoke wardrobes are made to the angle of the ceiling. Hanging goes where there’s height, with shelves where it is low. It’s cut to fit the ceiling and walls exactly.
Do you work in Motspur Park?
Yes, we do. We work in Motspur Park and across Kingston upon Thames, and the process is the same everywhere we go.
Flats, leases and landlords
Conversions and newer flats often have stud walls rather than solid brick. We choose fixings to suit the wall, after checking the walls at the measuring visit.
We also make and fit furniture for landlords furnishing a let, often to make the most of a small or awkward room. The materials are the same as for any home: moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
What prompts loft storage in Motspur Park
Some people want to make more of a dormer. Built-in furniture in a dormer puts it to work. It adds storage without crowding the room.
Here’s what loft storage can help with:
- Low eaves that nobody can use
- Unused space in a dormer
- A boarded loft that’s hard to keep organised
- A loft room with too many jobs
If you live in a flat close to New Malden station, each piece is planned so it can be carried up and joined together in the room.
What to check before you book
- Which materials they’ll use, named in the quote
- How they deal with uneven walls and floors
- Whether the quote follows a visit to your home
- Whether the finish is set out in the quote
Could you do it yourself?
The real difference is in the fit: edges scribed to the wall, a level base on a sloping floor and a neat line where the furniture meets the ceiling. Off-the-shelf furniture cannot usually do that in an older room.
If you’re handy, a simple shelf or a standard wardrobe in a square room is a reasonable DIY job. Sloping ceilings, uneven floors and lath-and-plaster walls make it harder, because scribing and the right fixings start to matter.
Looking after your furniture
A little care keeps the finish looking good, whether it was spray painted or hand painted. These practical tips help:
- Decide whether you’d prefer drawers, cupboards or both
- Note how narrow the loft stairs are
- Make room so the whole loft can be measured
- Let us know about parking near your home
Don’t pack things so tightly that air cannot move behind the knee wall. The storage is planned to keep airflow, so leave that space open. It helps prevent damp behind the storage.
Leave room for air to move behind the storage. Squashed insulation works less well. Damp in the eaves is worth raising with the people who did the conversion.