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Lewisham · London
St Johns Loft Storage
Eaves cupboards, drawers and wardrobes in converted lofts, for homes in St Johns. We measure, design and quote first, then make it in our workshop and fit it.
- Standard furniture that will not go up the loft stairs
- No wardrobe that fits under the slope
- Boxes piled on loft boards
Loft storage in St Johns
Bespoke loft storage or ready-made?
Off-the-shelf furniture is made for straight walls and full-height ceilings. Under a slope, it leaves large gaps and wasted space. Storage made for the loft follows its shape. It is a bigger investment, and the gain is the space it uses. Ready-made furniture rarely suits a recess, a slope or an odd corner, and most homes have at least one. Built-in pieces are made to fit them.
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 choose us
- Made in our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Saturdays by prior arrangement
- Over 300 projects completed
- A spray or hand-painted finish
Loft storage for homes in St Johns
We make each eaves cupboard in our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood. Birch plywood gives the carcasses and drawers their strength, while MDF takes paint well for the doors and panels. It’s then spray-painted or hand-painted and fitted in your home in St Johns. If you’re living with seasonal things cluttering the loft room and unused space in a dormer, eaves cupboards made from birch plywood and moisture-resistant MDF with a spray-painted or hand-painted finish can solve it.
In a part of London with mixed housing, like much of the city, no two homes have quite the same walls and floors. Eaves cupboards are scribed and levelled on site, so they look straight even where the room isn’t. You choose the paint colour, and whether it is spray-painted or hand-painted.
A written quote follows the design visit. It describes the design we discussed, the materials and the finish.
- Where
- St Johns (SE13, SE10, SE8)
- Area
- Lewisham
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- Design visit, then a written quote
- Made
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Boards and paint
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Working days
- Weekdays (Saturdays if arranged)
- Contact
- Send us a message
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Storage in St Johns homes: local notes
Homes built before 1919 make up about 36% of the housing in the area around St Johns, with about 32% built since 2000, in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. We take that into account at the design visit, since older and newer walls take different fixings. St Johns is partly covered by the Brookmill Road Conservation Area, according to Historic England’s records. The controls in a conservation area are mostly about the outside of buildings, so furniture fitted inside a house does not normally need planning permission. If you are unsure, check with the council before work starts. About 32% of homes around St Johns were built since 2000, well above the figure for Lewisham as a whole, about 17%, in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. Newer homes often have stud walls and compact rooms, so fixings and sizes are planned with that in mind.
For a family home near Ashmead Primary School, eaves cupboards can give school bags, shoes and sports kit a proper home. Near listed buildings like Church of the Ascension, about 0.6 miles east of the centre of St Johns, 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.
St Johns is about 1 mile west of New Cross, in the London Borough of Lewisham. We work across all London boroughs and the City of London, and St Johns is part of that. In Lewisham, St Johns is one of the places we cover.
Design visits and fitting in SE13, SE10 and SE8 work the same way as everywhere else we cover. You will find streets here like Avon Road, Mill Lane and Clare Road, and homes on each of them are within our area for loft storage. St Johns sits close to the A2210 and A2211, and we plan where the van can stop before fitting day. We also cover the places around St Johns: New Cross (1 mile west), Deptford (1 mile north), Lewisham (1 mile south-east), Telegraph Hill (1 mile west) and Ladywell (1 mile south). Across the rest of Lewisham, our area takes in Catford (2 miles south), Surrey Canal (2 miles north-west), Sydenham (3 miles south-west), Hither Green (2 miles south-east), Perry Vale (3 miles south) and Bell Green (3 miles south). Being one of the larger places in Lewisham, St Johns is covered for all of our fitted furniture.
What’s near St Johns
The streets we cover here include those near Laban Centre, Wickham Arms and St. Paul's. There is a railway station in St Johns itself: St Johns station. A little further out are Miller General Hospital (less than half a mile north) and Greenwich Castle (1.1 miles north-east). Not far away are Brookmill Road Local Nature Reserve.
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FAQs: loft storage in St Johns
Do you cover homes near St Johns station?
Yes, homes across Lewisham and the rest of London are within the area we cover. To get started, you can fill in our short enquiry form with some details about the room, and tell us about parking and access at the same time.
My home in St Johns is a flat. How do you get the furniture in?
We measure the route in not just the room: the stairs, landings, lift and doors. Eaves cupboards are made in our workshop in sections sized to fit that route, then assembled in your flat. If your building has rules on lift booking or working hours, or your lease needs consent for alterations, it’s worth checking those early.
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 scribed to the slope and walls.
Do you work on Saturdays?
Yes, we can arrange Saturdays. Let us know when you first get in touch.
Do I need to be at home on fitting day?
We need someone to let us in at the start of the day. It’s good to have someone there at the end to look over the work with us.
What happens when you come to measure?
It’s a chance to measure properly and talk through what you’d like. We also check the walls and floors and note radiators, sockets and other things in the way, and the written quote comes afterwards.
Do you need loft storage in St Johns?
Some people have a boarded loft and want proper shelving. Storage in a boarded loft keeps everything organised. It suits seasonal things and boxes.
People typically get in touch with us about needs like these:
- Boxes piled on loft boards
- An empty dormer that could hold shelves
- A sloping ceiling with no room for a wardrobe
- Nowhere to store bags and boxes
Queen's House, about 1.1 miles north-east, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. If your own home is a period one, sloping ceilings in a loft room suit wardrobes cut to the angle.
Choosing a carpenter
- How they handle walls that are not straight
- Will the doors close with even gaps?
- Have they thought about parking near you?
- Whether the finish is set out in the quote
What affects the price in St Johns
Prices vary from room to room, and it comes down to:
- Parking near your home
- Stairs, lifts and the route to the room
- The internal fittings
- Doors and drawers, and how many
Rooms that aren’t square take more work: uneven walls, sloping floors and angled ceilings all add scribing and cutting on site. The quote allows for it, written once we’ve measured up.
What we need to know
Before the design visit, it helps us to know about:
- Pictures of the whole wall or room, including the floor and ceiling
- Examples of the look you are after
- Approximate measurements of the space
- The type of home and how the room is reached
For a quote for loft storage in St Johns, get in touch through our contact form. Tell us which room it is and roughly what you have in mind, with sizes if you have them. Next comes a design visit, followed by a quote in writing.
Boards, parts and paint
Birch plywood
Birch plywood is strong and holds screws well. It suits carcasses, drawer boxes and shelves. Its layered edge can be shown or painted.
Doors and drawer fronts
What you see of the storage is mostly its fronts. They can be plain or panelled, with handles chosen to suit the room. Their tops follow the line of the slope.
How fitting day works
Once the main sections are fixed in place, we hang any doors and fit any drawers or lids. We adjust each one so the gaps line up and it closes cleanly. The time the fitting takes depends on how much storage you want in the loft, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. Before fitting day, we check the route in along with the room itself, so eaves cupboards arrive in sections that fit through. We cover floors and doorways on the way in.
- First we hear about the loft room and what you’d like to store.
- We measure the eaves, the slopes and the stairs up to the loft.
- The design is agreed and a written quote follows.
- Every part is made at our workshop, ready for a spray-painted or hand-painted finish. It is made from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- We carry it up, fit it and check every door and drawer with you. Any hand painting is done in the loft.
Before we arrive
- Let us know where the boiler and meters are
- Keep pets out of the room and the hallway
- Let us know if your street is in a controlled parking zone
Ask for a quote
Getting a quote starts with some details: which room it is, rough sizes and a couple of photos if you can take them. When you are ready, fill in our short enquiry form. We will then arrange a design visit and follow it with a quote in writing.