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Kensington and Chelsea · London
Loft Storage in North Kensington
Loft storage for your home in North Kensington: eaves cupboards, drawers and wardrobes in converted lofts. Each piece is designed at a visit to your home, built in our workshop and fitted by us.
- Space under the eaves going to waste
- A converted loft with no fitted furniture
- A loft room with too many jobs
Ask about loft storage in North Kensington
When is bespoke worth it?
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.
Flat-pack and off-the-shelf furniture has its place. In a room with square walls and standard sizes, it can work well.
How we make loft storage for North Kensington
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 uses space that might otherwise be wasted. At the design visit in North Kensington, we’ll look at what fits. We make eaves cupboards from moisture-resistant MDF and strong birch plywood, with a painted finish, and the usual reasons to get in touch are wasted space behind the knee walls and furniture that can’t get up to the loft.
Where original shutters, doors or panelling survive, they’re worth designing around. Around North Kensington, where homes from before 1919 make up a large share, new storage can be made to sit beside them rather than replace them. Panel details can be drawn to suit the house, and painted to match. For a listed home, fixing into original joinery can need consent, so check first.
Everything we agree at the design visit goes into the written quote: the layout and internal fittings, the materials and the finish. If you’d like to change anything, it’s easier before the furniture is made.
- Location
- North Kensington (W10, NW10, W11)
- Area
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Where it’s made
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Made from
- MDF and birch plywood, painted
- Fitting days
- Monday to Friday; Saturdays by arrangement
- Contact
- Send us a message
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
Questions from North Kensington
Does a conservation area in or near North Kensington affect fitted furniture?
Normally not: conservation area rules mainly cover the outside of buildings, and fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission. Listed buildings are different, as works inside that affect their character can need listed building consent from the council. If you are unsure, the council can confirm.
Is parking a problem for fitting in North Kensington?
It can be, as controlled parking zones cover much of inner London. 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. Let us know what parking is near you at the measuring visit.
How long does it take to fit loft storage?
How long fitting takes depends on how much storage you want in the loft, and your quote sets out the fitting days. Every part is made at our workshop before we arrive. Saturday fitting is possible by arrangement.
Can you get furniture up narrow loft stairs?
We measure the stairs and landings as well as the loft room. Each section is made to fit the narrowest point, and then assembled in the loft.
What finishes do you offer?
There are two ways to finish it: spray painted or hand painted. A spray finish is smooth and even, while a hand-painted one is easy to touch up later.
What if my walls and floors are out of level?
Walls and floors that aren’t true are part of the job in older homes. The furniture is scribed to follow the walls and levelled on feet or a plinth, so it sits tight to the room.
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What prompts loft storage in North Kensington
A new loft conversion often needs storage to finish it. The room is there, but the furniture to fit it is not. Fitted storage finishes the room.
If any of these sound familiar, it’s worth getting in touch:
- Clothes with nowhere to go in a loft bedroom
- A dormer that is not being used
- Wasted space behind the knee walls
- Standard furniture that will not go up the loft stairs
If you live in a flat close to Kensal Green station, the lift, the stair turns and the front door all set the largest piece that can come in.
What to check before you book
- Whether the quote says what the furniture is made from
- Whether the quote follows a visit to your home
- Whether they can show you real projects they’ve done
- How they’ll get the furniture into the room
What loft storage can’t fix
Some parts of a job need another trade, such as an electrician, a plumber or a Gas Safe engineer. Here’s what to know:
- Building work to turn a loft into a room
- Adding or replacing insulation
- Any wiring, which needs an electrician
If you are not sure what’s possible in your room, you can get in touch through our contact form and we will give you a straight answer. Our process from visit to fitting.
Materials and parts
- Eaves doors and drawers
- Hand-painted finish
- Birch plywood
- Spray-painted finish
- Sloped wardrobe tops
- Moisture-resistant MDF
Fitted storage in North Kensington
Homes built before 1919 make up about 53% of the housing in the neighbourhood around North Kensington, with about 15% built between 1973 and 1999, based on the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax data. For carpentry, the era of a house is a useful clue to how square its rooms are and what its walls are made of. There are 161 entries on the National Heritage List within half a mile of the centre of North Kensington. Original fireplaces, shutters and panelling are worth keeping where they survive, and eaves cupboards can be designed to work around them. Strict stopping rules apply on red routes, which TfL runs. If you live on or close to a main road in North Kensington, let us know at the design visit. We’ll plan where the van can stop.
The wider area includes historic houses such as Kensington Palace, about 1.9 miles south-east. For a period home anywhere nearby, eaves cupboards in a converted loft are scribed to slopes that are rarely even. Close to Little Wormwood Scrubs? Eaves cupboards can be designed to hold outdoor kit, from walking boots to picnic things.
North Kensington is about 2 miles south-east of Kensington, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. We work across all London boroughs and the City of London, and North Kensington is part of that. Our Kensington and Chelsea coverage includes North Kensington, along with the rest of the borough.
We work across the W10, NW10 and W11 postcode area for loft storage. Whether you live on a street like Peach Road, Barlby Road and Eynham Road or on one nearby, we can arrange a design visit for loft storage. If you’re just outside North Kensington, we also cover Kensal Town (1 mile east), Kensal Green (1 mile north-west), Kensal Rise (1 mile north), Notting Dale (1 mile south-east) and White City (1 mile south). We also make loft storage in nearby places like Kensington (2 miles south-east), Brompton (3 miles south-east), Chelsea (3 miles south-east), South Kensington (3 miles south-east), Holland Park (2 miles south-east) and Earl's Court (3 miles south-east).
What’s near North Kensington
We fit furniture in homes around The Eagle pub, Maida Vale School and All Saints Catholic College, among other places. North Kensington’s nearest station is Kensal Green station, roughly 0.5 miles north. Well-known places in the area include Culture House (1.3 miles south) and Princess Louise Hospital (close by, under half a mile south-west).
From workshop to your room
On the morning of the fitting, we start by protecting your floors and the route from the front door to the room. Next, we carry in the sections built in our workshop, a piece at a time. How long the fitting takes depends on the length of the eaves and the design, and the fitting days are agreed in your quote. In houses converted into flats, the route in may include a shared hall and stairs, so neighbours may appreciate a note before fitting day. The sections are sized for the narrowest point on the route. Saturdays can be arranged.
- You get in touch and tell us about your converted or boarded loft, and how you get up to it.
- We come to measure the room and the way up to it, and talk through the design.
- A quote in writing follows, with the design, finish and fitting days set out, for you to look over.
- Your storage is made in our workshop and painted to your chosen colour.
- We fit it in your home, scribed to the slopes and the walls.
Before fitting day
- Check the building’s rules for trades and lift bookings
- Keep pets in another room while we work
- Tell us about any meters, fuse boards or boilers in the area
Arranging a design visit
You do not need exact measurements to get started. Everything is measured properly when we visit. To get started, fill in our short enquiry form with some details about the room. You receive a written quote after the visit.
Advice
Bespoke or off-the-shelf?
Loft walls are rarely straight, and floors are often out of level. Standard furniture leaves visible gaps. We scribe our storage to the slopes and walls, and set it level. Ready-made tall pieces have to be fixed to the wall for safety, and older walls of brick or lath and plaster make that harder than it looks. Fitted furniture is designed with the wall in mind.
How it is painted is part of the price: spray painting happens in the workshop, and hand painting can be done in your home. Your choice, along with the size and the fittings, is reflected in the written quote.
Why work with us in North Kensington
- Scribed to uneven walls
- Moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood
- Finished by spray or by hand
- We visit, measure and talk through the design before we quote
See how bespoke compares with ready-made or what to look for in a quote.