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Camden · London
West Hampstead Loft Storage
Planning loft storage for a home in West Hampstead? We start with a design visit and a written quote, before anything is made.
- A loft room with too many jobs
- Unused space in a dormer
- Standard furniture that won’t go up the loft stairs
Loft storage designed for your room
Loft storage for homes in West Hampstead
Each eaves cupboard is made at our workshop, using moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood. Birch plywood gives the carcasses and drawers their strength, and MDF gives the doors and panels a smooth surface for paint. It’s then spray-painted or hand-painted and fitted in your home in West Hampstead. Typical reasons to get in touch are standard furniture that won’t go up the loft stairs and boxes piled on loft boards, and the answer is made at our workshop from MDF made to resist moisture and birch plywood, then spray-painted or hand-painted.
Outside walls in houses from before 1919 are usually solid brick, which can be cold, so storage against it is designed with ventilation behind. A large share of the homes around West Hampstead date from then. Damp should be sorted before anything is fitted against the wall.
A written quote follows the design visit. It describes the design we discussed, the materials and the finish.
- Place
- West Hampstead (NW3, NW6, NW2)
- Borough
- Camden
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- We visit, measure, then quote
- Where it’s made
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Materials and finish
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Fitting days
- Weekdays (Saturdays if arranged)
- Contact
- The contact form
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
What prompts loft storage in West Hampstead
Standard wardrobes do not fit under a sloping ceiling. Bespoke wardrobes follow the slope. It’s a common need in a loft bedroom.
If you recognise any of these, it’s worth talking to us:
- A new loft conversion that needs storage
- A loft room with too many jobs
- A sloping ceiling with no room for a wardrobe
- Unused space in a dormer
If your children go to Emmanuel Church of England Primary School or a school nearby, deep drawers suit the bulky things families collect, from scooters to swimming kit.
What to check before you book
- Whether they can show you real projects they’ve done
- How they deal with uneven walls and floors
- Whether the quote says what the furniture is made from
- How the furniture will be finished, and where
From workshop to your room
Finishing comes last. If the furniture was spray painted in the workshop, we fill the fixing holes and touch up on site; hand painting, if that is what you chose, can be done in place once everything is fitted. Either way, the finish is the one set out in your quote. On fitting day in an older house, the main job is scribing to walls and levelling on floors that slope, so there is some trimming and adjusting on site. Floors are protected, and dust is kept down as far as possible. Parking can be tight on terraced streets, so let us know about permits and bays at the design visit.
- You get in touch and let us know 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 go through the design, including the headroom under the slope.
- You receive a written quote for the storage we have discussed, for you to look over.
- 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.
How to prepare
- Have your electrician move any sockets or switches beforehand
- Book any lift and let the concierge or building manager know
- Point out meters, boilers and fuse boards near the furniture
Arranging a design visit
For a quote for loft storage in West Hampstead, send us a few details through our contact form. Tell us which room it is and roughly what you have in mind, plus any rough measurements. Next comes a design visit, followed by a written quote.
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Questions from West Hampstead
Will parking be an issue for fitting furniture in West Hampstead?
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.
My home in West Hampstead 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. We also work around skirting boards, picture rails and cornices. Fixings are chosen for the wall, whether solid brick or lath and plaster.
Where is the furniture made?
Each piece is built in our workshop for the room it is going into, then fitted in your home. It is built from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
How long will the loft storage fitting take?
How long fitting takes depends on the length of the eaves and the design, and your quote sets out the fitting days. We make the cupboards and drawers in our workshop, so the time at your home is spent fitting. Saturday fitting is possible by prior arrangement.
What materials do you use for 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, and MDF takes paint well for the doors and panels. The finish is spray-painted or hand-painted.
Do I choose the paint colour?
You do. We agree the colour with you before anything is painted.
Places near West Hampstead
What else we make in West Hampstead
Flats, conversions and leaseholders
Mansion blocks and purpose-built blocks often have house rules about lifts, entry systems and when trades can come in. Let us know about them during the design visit, so fitting day is planned around them.
Conversions and newer flats often have stud walls rather than solid brick. We choose fixings to suit the wall, after checking the walls during the design visit.
How it is made
Birch plywood
We use birch plywood where strength matters. It goes into the carcasses, the drawers and the shelves. Its layered edge can be shown or painted.
Hand-painted finish
Hand painting can be done on site once the storage is in. It’s easy to touch up if it gets marked. That helps in a well-used bedroom.
Bespoke or off-the-shelf?
It’s worth being honest about cost: flat-pack is usually cheaper to buy. Bespoke earns its place where the room is tricky, space is tight or you want the furniture to look part of the house.
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, where scribing and fixings that suit the wall are important.
Storage in West Hampstead homes: local notes
Homes built before 1919 make up about 63% of the housing in the streets around West Hampstead, with about 10% built between 1919 and 1939, on the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures for 2025. We take that into account during the design visit, since older and newer walls take different fixings. The National Heritage List has 208 entries within half a mile of the centre of West Hampstead. Older homes nearby may have original joinery, shutters or panelling worth keeping, and the furniture can be designed around them rather than over them. About 37% of households in the neighbourhood around West Hampstead live in flats in converted or shared houses, going by Census 2021 figures from the ONS. In a converted house, rooms can be odd shapes, with new partitions meeting old walls, and the route in may go through a shared hall and stairs. A lease can require consent for alterations, so it is worth checking yours first.
The wider area includes historic houses such as Fenton House, about 0.5 miles north-east. If your own home is a period one, eaves cupboards in a converted loft are scribed to slopes that are rarely even. If your home is as old as some of the listed buildings nearby, such as Church of St John, original features like shutters, panelling and fireplaces are worth designing around. For a listed home, fixing into original features can require listed building consent.
West Hampstead is within the London Borough of Camden, about 4 miles south-east of St Pancras. Anywhere in West Hampstead, it works the same way: we visit and measure, send a quote in writing, make the furniture in our workshop and fit it. Our work takes in places right across Camden, from the busiest high streets to quiet residential roads.
Every address in NW3, NW6 and NW2 is covered for loft storage. Whether you live on a street such as Mill Lane, Acol Road and Ajax Road or on one nearby, we can arrange a design visit for loft storage. West Hampstead sits close to the A502. We also cover the places around West Hampstead: Fortune Green (1 mile west), Hampstead (1 mile east), Greenhill (1 mile east), Childs Hill (1 mile north-west) and Vale of Health (1 mile north-east). We also make loft storage in nearby places like St Pancras (4 miles south-east), West End (4 miles south-east), St Giles (4 miles south-east), Seven Dials (4 miles south-east), Holborn (4 miles south-east) and Bloomsbury (3 miles south-east).
What’s near West Hampstead
The streets we cover here include those near South Hampstead High School, Holly Bush pub and St Anthony's Preparatory School. There’s a railway station in West Hampstead itself: Finchley Road & Frognal station. Well-known places in the area include Isokon Gallery (1.2 miles east) and New End Hospital (0.5 miles north-east). For a walk, there is Westbere Copse and Parliament Hill.