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Bromley · London
Loft storage in Upper Ruxley, Bromley
Loft storage for your home in Upper Ruxley: 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.
- Seasonal things cluttering the loft room
- A converted loft with no fitted furniture
- Needing storage in a loft office
Loft storage in Upper Ruxley
The problems loft storage solve
A new loft conversion often needs storage to finish it. Standard furniture rarely suits the new room. Storage made for the slopes completes it.
Most of the enquiries we get are about things like these:
- Clothes with nowhere to go in a loft bedroom
- Wasted space behind the knee walls
- A boarded loft with no proper shelving
- A dormer that is not being used
If you live near Foots Cray Meadows, eaves cupboards can be designed to hold outdoor kit, from walking boots to picnic things.
What to check before you book
- How the doors are hung and adjusted
- Whether you’ll get a quote in writing, not just a figure
- How the furniture will be finished, and where
- Have they measured the stairs, lift and doorways?
Loft storage in Upper Ruxley: what you get
The space behind the knee wall typically has insulation and ventilation to think about. We design the storage so it does not block airflow or crush insulation. If you have concerns about what’s behind the eaves, ask the people who did the conversion. We look at this at the design visit in Upper Ruxley. We make eaves cupboards from birch plywood and moisture-resistant MDF with a spray-painted or hand-painted finish, and the things people most often want solved are boxes and suitcases with no home and a loft room that still feels unfinished.
Many post-war homes have a boiler in a hall, kitchen or landing cupboard. Any new cupboard around it keeps the clearances its manufacturer sets out. Because many homes around Upper Ruxley date from the post-war years, that is one of the things we check at the design visit. Work on the boiler itself is for a Gas Safe engineer.
A quote in writing follows the design visit. It sets out the design we’ve talked through, the materials and the finish.
- Place
- Upper Ruxley (DA14)
- Area
- Bromley
- Prices
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Made
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Materials and finish
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- Working days
- Monday to Friday; Saturdays by prior arrangement
- Enquiries
- Send us a message
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Questions from Upper Ruxley
Do you make loft storage for homes in Upper Ruxley?
Yes, we work across Bromley, Upper Ruxley included, and across the rest of London. You can tell us about the room on our contact form to arrange a design visit.
Can parking be tricky on fitting day in Upper Ruxley?
It can be, depending on whether your street is in a controlled parking zone. A van may need a visitor’s permit, a paid parking bay or a bay suspension, which the council arranges, often with notice. It is useful to let us know about parking during the design visit.
Do you do the loft conversion too?
No, the conversion itself is not our work. Our part is the storage once the loft is a finished room, from eaves cupboards to wardrobes under the slopes.
Does someone need to be home during the fitting?
We need someone to let us in. It is good to have someone there at the end to look over the work with us.
Can I send photos ahead of the visit?
Yes. They give us a feel for the space before we visit. It helps to show radiators, sockets and anything else on the wall.
Can you fit furniture to uneven walls?
Uneven walls are normal in older London homes, and the furniture is made to deal with them. Edges are scribed to the wall, and adjustable feet or a plinth bring the furniture up to level.
How it is made
Moisture-resistant MDF
A loft room can see more change in temperature than other rooms, so a stable material matters. It gives a smooth base for paint. It is used for most of the visible parts.
Plinths and scribe strips
Loft rooms are seldom square. Scribe strips and a plinth take up the difference. The result is neat, even lines all round.
Loft storage for homes in Upper Ruxley
About 51% of the homes in the area around Upper Ruxley went up between 1945 and 1972, and about 20% between 1919 and 1939, in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. It is a good starting point, though every room is still measured, as two homes of the same age rarely match. Near the centre of Upper Ruxley, Historic England’s list includes Old Church of St Botolph (Grade II), under half a mile west, and Ruxley Farmhouse (Grade II), less than half a mile west. For a listed home, changes inside that alter its character can require listed building consent from the council, for instance removing or fixing into original panelling. It’s worth speaking to the council’s conservation officer before the design is final. All of London, Bromley included, is inside the ULEZ. It applies to every van that comes to fit furniture in Upper Ruxley. Access and parking are talked through at the design visit.
Hall Place and Gardens, about 2.7 miles north, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. For a period home anywhere nearby, the knee walls of a converted loft can take drawers as well as cupboards. For a flat near Swanley station, it helps to book the lift and tell the concierge before fitting day.
Upper Ruxley is part of the London Borough of Bromley, about 2 miles south-west of Orpington. We can visit homes in Upper Ruxley on weekdays, or on a Saturday by arrangement. We cover places right across Bromley, from the busiest high streets to quiet residential roads.
Here we cover the DA14 postcode area for loft storage. We cover homes on streets such as Maidstone Road and Old Maidstone Road, for loft storage and any of our other fitted furniture. If you are just outside Upper Ruxley, we also cover Ruxley (1 mile north-west), Foots Cray (1 mile west) and North Cray (1 mile north). Across the rest of Bromley, our area takes in Orpington (2 miles south-west), Bromley (5 miles west), Beckenham (7 miles west), St Mary Cray (2 miles south-west), Chislehurst (3 miles west) and Biggin Hill (8 miles south-west).
Local landmarks in Upper Ruxley
Around Upper Ruxley, we cover homes near Kemnal Technology College, among other places. The nearest railway station is Swanley station, roughly 1.7 miles south-east. A little further out are Queen Mary's Hospital (1.8 miles west). Not far away are The Warren.
Flats, leases and landlords
For a rented home, access for the design visit and fitting day has to be agreed with the tenants. An agent can arrange access for you, and the written quote can go to whoever needs it.
If your building is on a red route or a busy main road, getting the furniture from the van to the door needs planning. Red routes are run by TfL and have strict stopping rules, so it is worth raising at the design visit.
Bespoke or off-the-shelf?
Bespoke work comes into its own in rooms that are not square. In period homes, walls lean, floors slope and the alcoves on each side are often different widths, and standard units leave gaps.
Standard units come in set widths and heights, so there is typically a gap left over at the top or at one end. Fitted furniture is made to the room’s measurements, so it can use the full height and width.
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What happens on fitting day
In older rooms, the furniture typically has to meet skirting, picture rails, cornice or coving. On fitting day, we cut and scribe the furniture around these details, so it looks as though it was always there. The time the fitting takes depends on the shape of the room and the number of cupboards and drawers, and your quote sets out the fitting days. Post-war homes often have concrete or block walls, so fixings are chosen for the wall on fitting day. Floors and doorways are protected while the sections come in.
- You let us know about your converted or boarded loft.
- At the design visit, the room and the route up are measured.
- The design is agreed and a quote in writing follows, with the finish set out.
- Every part is made at our workshop, ready for a spray-painted or hand-painted finish.
- We carry it up, fit it and check every door and drawer with you. Any hand painting is done in the loft.
Getting ready for fitting day
- Clear the hallway and stairs so the sections can come through
- Make sure pets are kept safely away
- Take anything hanging off the wall we are fitting to
How to get a quote
Rough sizes are fine at the start. Everything is measured properly when we visit, along with the walls, floor and ceiling. To get started, fill in our short enquiry form. You receive a quote in writing after the visit.