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Loft storage in New Addington, Croydon
Eaves cupboards, drawers and wardrobes in converted lofts, for homes in New Addington. Every piece is built in our workshop and fitted in your home, with a spray or hand-painted finish.
- A boarded loft that’s hard to keep organised
- Needing storage in a loft office
- A loft room that still feels unfinished
Loft storage for your home in New Addington
Materials and finishes
Doors and drawer fronts
Any door that gives access behind the knee wall can look like the others. It opens wide, so you can still get into the eaves. Around it, the fronts can be drawers, doors or a mix.
Hand-painted finish
Hand painting can be done on site once the storage is in. It is easy to touch up if it gets marked. That helps in a well-used bedroom.
Loft storage for homes in New Addington
A loft room can hold a great deal of storage, if the low spaces are used well. We design and make eaves cupboards, drawers in the knee walls, wardrobes under the slopes and shelves in dormers, each shaped to the room. In New Addington, as everywhere we work, it begins with a visit to measure and plan. Most enquiries start with wasted space behind the knee walls and seasonal things cluttering the loft room, and the answer is made at our workshop from MDF made to resist moisture and birch plywood, then spray-painted or hand-painted.
A good share of the homes around New Addington were built between 1945 and the early 1970s. Post-war homes normally have squarer rooms and fewer nooks than period ones, which means eaves cupboards can add storage that was never built in. The fixings are chosen for the wall, whether it’s concrete, blockwork or brick.
The quote comes in writing, so you can read it at your own pace and talk it over at home. It covers the design, materials and finish agreed at the visit.
- Location
- New Addington (CR0, CR9)
- Area
- Croydon
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- Design visit, then a written quote
- Making
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Materials and finish
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Working days
- Weekdays, and Saturdays by prior arrangement
- Enquiries
- The contact form
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
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Common questions about loft storage
Do you make loft storage for homes in New Addington?
Yes. We cover all of Croydon and the rest of London, and New Addington is part of that. The first step is a design visit, where we measure and discuss the design, followed by a quote.
Do you cover homes near Hayes (Kent) station?
Yes, homes across Croydon and the rest of London are within the area we cover. You can drop us a line using the contact form to arrange a design visit, and tell us about parking and access at the same time.
How long does it take to fit loft storage?
The time the fitting takes depends on how much storage you want in the loft, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. 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.
Does someone need to be home during the fitting?
We need access, so someone has to let us in. After that, you do not need to stay in the room.
How is the furniture painted?
There are two choices: a spray finish from the workshop, which is smooth and even, or hand painting, which can be done in your home. Your quote sets out which you have chosen.
What happens when you come to measure?
We measure the room, check how level the walls and floors are and go through the design with you. We’ll also ask about access and parking.
From workshop to your room
If anything comes up on the day, just ask. The design, materials and finish were settled before anything was made, so the day itself is about careful fitting and leaving everything tidy. 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. Communal stairs in older blocks often have tight landings, so the size of each section is set by the stairs as well as the lift. Where the building has a caretaker or managing agent, it helps to tell them before fitting day. We cover the floors in shared areas on the way in.
- You get in touch with some details about the loft room, whether it’s a converted room or a boarded space.
- We visit to measure and look at what’s behind the knee walls, and talk through the design with you.
- A quote in writing 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.
Before we arrive
- Clear the walls of pictures and shelves
- Mention any parking restrictions on your street
- Let us know where the boiler and meters are
How to get a quote
Every piece is quoted for your room after the design visit. Because every room is different, the quote comes after the design visit, once the room is measured and the design talked through. For a quote, use our contact form.
Advice
Loft storage for homes in New Addington
The biggest shares of homes in the neighbourhood around New Addington were built between 1945 and 1972 (about 78%) and between 1919 and 1939 (about 13%), on the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures for 2025. Each era brings its own kind of wall, ceiling height and floor, so it shapes the design from the first measurement. More than half of the homes in the streets around New Addington (about 78%) were built between 1945 and 1972, on the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures for 2025. In a post-war house with a converted loft, the space under the slopes is worth using; we build once the loft is converted or boarded. Red routes are run by TfL, with tight limits on where and when vehicles can stop. If your home is on or just off a main road, it helps to mention it. It lets us plan the stop before fitting day.
If your children go to Rowdown Primary School or a school nearby, a place for each person’s coat and shoes stops the hallway filling up. If you live in a period home close to St Edward King and Confessor, eaves cupboards in a converted loft are scribed to slopes that are rarely even.
New Addington is about 6 miles north-west of Thornton Heath, part of the London Borough of Croydon. Our work covers every London borough and the City of London, New Addington included. We cover places right across Croydon, large and small.
In CR0 and CR9, the process is the same as anywhere else in London. Streets in the area include Bothwell Road, Windham Avenue and Gascoigne Road, and we cover homes on all of them for loft storage. Nearby, we also make loft storage in Forestdale (1 mile west), Addington (1 mile north-west) and Nash (2 miles north-east). Across the rest of Croydon, our area takes in Thornton Heath (6 miles north-west), Croydon (4 miles north-west), Coulsdon (6 miles west), Purley (4 miles west), Broad Green (5 miles north-west) and Upper Norwood (6 miles north-west).
Near you in New Addington
Our area takes in the homes around Meridian High School, among other places. New Addington’s nearest station is Hayes (Kent) station, about 2.6 miles north-east of the centre. A little further out are Warlingham Park Hospital (1.8 miles south). Open spaces near New Addington include Hutchinson's Bank.
Before and after fitting day
The finish lasts best with a little care. These practical tips help:
- Clear the knee-wall spaces before the design visit if you can
- Think about what will go in each cupboard or drawer
- Look at the insulation and any vents behind the knee wall
- Choose a calm colour for the loft
Once the fitting is done, the storage is ready to use. New paintwork takes time to cure fully, so go easy on it to begin with. Avoid sticky tape, heavy knocks and harsh cleaners while it hardens.
Keep the eaves ventilated and avoid pressing things against the back of the space. Insulation pressed flat doesn’t do its job. Damp in the eaves is worth raising with the people who did the conversion.
Honest limits
Not everything around loft storage is carpentry, from an electrician to a plumber or a Gas Safe engineer. Here is what to bear in mind:
- Electrical work in the loft
- Insulation or ventilation work behind the eaves
- Anything that needs Building Regulations sign-off
If in doubt, you can message us from the contact page and describe the room. Our process from visit to fitting.
Materials and parts
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Hand-painted finish
- Birch plywood
- Spray-painted finish
- Sloped wardrobe tops
- Eaves doors and drawers
What prompts loft storage in New Addington
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.
If you recognise any of these, it’s worth talking to us:
- A boarded loft that’s hard to keep organised
- Nowhere to store bags and boxes
- No wardrobe that fits under the slope
- A new loft conversion that needs storage
Addington Palace, about 1.5 miles north-west, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. If your own home is a period one, the low eaves and slopes of a converted loft are worth using.
Before you hire any carpenter
- How doors and drawers are fitted
- A quote in writing that sets out the job
- Whether the quote follows a visit to your home
- Are the boards named, like MDF or plywood?