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Camden · London
Loft Storage in St Giles
Loft storage for your home in St Giles: eaves cupboards, drawers and wardrobes in converted lofts. Each piece is designed at a visit to your home, made at our workshop and fitted by us.
- A loft room that doubles as an office or guest room
- Nowhere to store bags and boxes
- Ready-made wardrobes too big for the stairs
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How fitting day works
Getting everything level comes first. Floors are often out of level, so adjustable feet or a plinth take up the difference. After that, it is fixed to the wall using fixings that suit the wall, whether that is solid brick, lath and plaster or plasterboard. Parking on terraced streets can be tight, especially in a controlled parking zone, so it helps to tell us during the design visit what’s outside. Unloading is kept short, with sections taken straight inside. Saturdays are possible by prior arrangement.
- It starts when you get in touch with some details about the loft.
- We come to measure the room and the way up to it, and go through the design, including the headroom under the slope.
- You receive a written quote for the storage we have discussed.
- We make every part in our workshop, cut to the angle of the slope.
- The storage is fitted in the loft and checked, door by door.
Preparing the room
- Keep pets out of the room and the hallway
- Let us know where the boiler and meters are
- Book any lift and let the concierge or building manager know
How to get a quote
A quote begins with a few details from you: the room, rough sizes and some pictures if you have them. To send them, send us a few details through our contact form. After that, we arrange a visit to measure and discuss the design, then send a written quote.
Advice
About our loft storage in St Giles
Loft stairs are often narrow and steep, with tight turns. We measure the route along with the room itself, so the sections we make in our workshop can be carried up. It’s part of the job for any loft room in St Giles. We make eaves cupboards from birch ply and moisture-resistant MDF, painted by hand or sprayed, and the things people most often want solved are clothes with nowhere to go in a loft bedroom and a converted loft with no fitted furniture.
Original features like shutters, cupboard doors and panelling are worth keeping where they survive. With a large share of the homes around St Giles built before 1919, new storage can be made to sit beside them rather than replace them. Door styles can be chosen to suit the age of the house. 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, what goes inside, the materials used and the finish. If something isn’t quite right, tell us before anything is made.
- Place
- St Giles (W1F, W1D, W1T)
- Area
- Camden
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- First step
- We visit, measure, then quote
- Where it’s made
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Made from
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- When we fit
- Monday to Friday; Saturdays by prior arrangement
- Get in touch
- Send us a message
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
Practical tips
Getting the most from loft storage starts with the planning and carries on after fitting day. These are worth keeping in mind:
- Decide whether you’d prefer drawers, cupboards or both
- Look at the insulation and any vents behind the knee wall
- Make a list of what you want to store in the eaves
- Check the route up to the loft
When you load the drawers and cupboards, put heavy things low. It helps the runners and keeps the storage working well. Shelves are made for what you told us you’d store.
Temperatures in a loft room can swing more than elsewhere. Keep the room ventilated. It helps the storage stay in good condition.
What it costs
There is no set price, because there is no set room. The things that affect it are:
- Doors and drawers, and how many
- How big the furniture is
- How easy it is to get the furniture into the room
- How square the room is
Parking is part of the price picture in London. Much of London is covered by controlled parking zones, so we may need a visitor permit, a paid bay or a suspended bay. It is useful to talk about parking at the measuring visit, so we can plan for it.
Helping us understand the room
To help us picture the room, please include:
- Your postcode and the borough
- What the furniture needs to hold
- Anything fixed to the wall that the furniture needs to work around
- Any ideas or images you have saved
To get a quote, message us from the contact page and tell us which room you have in mind and what you want the furniture to do. We then arrange a design visit to measure and discuss the design, and a quote in writing follows.
St Giles homes and loft storage
About 49% of the homes in the streets around St Giles went up before 1919, and about 21% since 2000, going by the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax figures. We take that into account at the design visit, since older and newer walls take different fixings. Entries on the National Heritage List near the centre of St Giles include Church of St Giles in the Fields (Grade I), under half a mile north-west, and House of St Barnabas (Grade I), under half a mile west. Listing covers the inside of a building as well as the outside, so works that affect a listed home’s character, like removing original joinery, can need listed building consent. The council’s conservation officer is the person to ask before work starts. Red routes are run by TfL, with tight limits on where and when vehicles can stop. Where a home in St Giles is on or beside a main road, it helps to mention that at the measuring visit. We can then plan where the van will stop.
Close to St Anne's Churchyard? Living near green space often means muddy boots, bikes and outdoor kit, and eaves cupboards can give those things a place. If your home is one of the older houses near Soho Baptist Chapel, the low eaves and slopes of a converted loft are worth using. Benjamin Franklin House, about 0.5 miles south, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. If your own home is a period one, a dormer in a converted loft can hold shelves or a small desk.
St Giles is about 1 mile north-east of St Pancras, in the London Borough of Camden. Wherever you are in St Giles, it works the same way: a design visit, a quote in writing, furniture made at our workshop and fitting in your home. Across Camden, we cover St Giles and the places around it.
We work across the W1F, W1D and W1T postcode area for loft storage. If your home is on a street such as Duck Lane, Drury Lane and Bridle Lane, or close by, we can arrange a design visit for loft storage. St Giles is near the A301 and A400; on busy main roads, unloading eaves cupboards takes a little planning. Neighbouring places we cover for loft storage include Seven Dials (1 mile south), West End (1 mile south-west), Soho (1 mile south-west), Covent Garden (1 mile south-east) and Chinatown (1 mile south-west). Other parts of Camden we cover include Hampstead (4 miles north-west), West Hampstead (4 miles north-west), Agar Town (2 miles north), Kentish Town (2 miles north), Greenhill (3 miles north-west) and Chalk Farm (2 miles north-west). Being one of the larger places in Camden, St Giles is covered for all of our fitted furniture.
Local landmarks in St Giles
The streets we cover here include those near London Nautical School, The Crown pub and Mercers' School. St Giles has its own railway station: Tottenham Court Road station. Other landmarks nearby include Kingly Court (0.5 miles west) and Montfichet's Tower (1.1 miles east). For a walk, there is Ludgate Hill and St. James's Park Lake.
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FAQs: loft storage in St Giles
My home in St Giles is a period house with walls that aren’t straight. Is that a problem?
Yes. Walls in older houses are rarely flat or square, and floors are often out of level, so each piece is scribed to follow the wall and set level on a plinth or adjustable feet. Skirting, picture rails and cornices are met neatly or cut around. Fixings are chosen for the wall, whether solid brick or lath and plaster.
How do you fit loft storage in a flat in St Giles?
At the design visit, we measure the way in as well as the room. Eaves cupboards are built in our workshop in sections sized to fit that route, then assembled in your flat. It’s useful to check any building rules and your lease before fitting day.
Is the furniture spray painted or hand painted?
You can choose between two finishes: by spray or by hand. Spray painting gives a smooth, even finish, and hand painting is easy to touch up.
Which materials go into your loft storage?
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.
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. Access and parking are worth talking about too.
Can you build a wardrobe under a sloping ceiling?
Yes. We shape the wardrobe to follow the slope, with hanging at the tall end and shelves or drawers lower down. It makes the most of the space. We will work out the layout when we visit.
Flats, leases and landlords
Some blocks ask for notice before trades arrive, often through a building manager or concierge. Lifts sometimes need to be booked, and the lift size helps decide how big each section can be. Mention it when you get in touch.
For a rented home, access for the design visit and fitting day has to be agreed with the tenants, at times that suit them. An agent can arrange access for you, and the written quote can go to whoever needs it.
Bespoke loft storage or ready-made?
A ready-made cupboard pushed into the eaves can block airflow. We plan the storage around what’s behind the knee wall. It helps keep the space in good order. 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. With fitted pieces, the fixings are planned for the wall from the start.
Rooms that are not square take more work: uneven walls, sloping floors and angled ceilings all add scribing and cutting on site. That is reflected in the quote, written once we’ve measured up.
Why choose Bespoke Carpentry in St Giles
- Every quote follows a design visit
- Built from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood
- Saturdays by arrangement
- Scribed to uneven walls
See our comparison of bespoke and off-the-shelf and what a quote should include.