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Hammersmith and Fulham · London
West Kensington Loft Storage
We make loft storage for homes in West Kensington, designed around the room you have. Your eaves cupboard is designed at a visit to your home and built in our workshop.
- A loft room with too many jobs
- A boarded loft with no proper shelving
- A dormer that isn’t being used
Loft storage in West Kensington
What happens on fitting day
However carefully a piece is made in the workshop, it still has to meet the room, and that happens on fitting day. Few walls in older London homes are truly flat or square, so we scribe the edges by hand to follow the wall. How long the fitting itself takes depends on the length of the eaves and the design, and the fitting days are agreed in your quote. Original hallway tiles and old floorboards are worth protecting, so they’re covered before anything comes in. Drilling into lath and plaster is done with care, so the plaster around stays sound. Decorating around the furniture afterwards is for your decorator.
- To begin, tell us about the room on our contact form; a brief note on the loft and the storage you want is enough.
- At the design visit we measure the knee walls and the angle of each slope at more than one point, as they’re rarely even.
- Your written quote sets out the storage and the finish.
- In our workshop we build each section from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood to follow the slope.
- On fitting day the units are set level and scribed to the slope and the knee wall.
Before we arrive
- Have your electrician move any sockets or switches beforehand
- Take down pictures, mirrors and shelves from the wall
- Keep pets out of the room and the hallway
Ask for a quote
Rough measurements 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 with a few details about the room. You receive a written quote after the visit.
Related advice
How we make loft storage for West Kensington
Getting furniture up to a loft room is part of the planning. At the design visit, we measure the stairs and landings as well as the loft, so the sections we make in our workshop can be carried up. It’s a step that matters for any loft in West Kensington. Most enquiries start with nowhere to store bags and boxes and furniture that can’t get up to the loft, and the answer is made in our workshop from birch ply and moisture-resistant MDF, painted by hand or sprayed.
With a large share of homes around West Kensington built before 1919, the space under the stairs in a terraced house often holds the gas meter, the electricity meter or the fuse board. Those have to stay reachable, so any storage is designed around them. Bays and sash windows in period houses are natural spots for a window seat.
A written quote is the clearest record of what we’ve agreed. It describes the eaves cupboard we’ve designed for the room, its materials and its finish.
- Where
- West Kensington (W14, SW6, SW5)
- Borough
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Made
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Made from
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Fitting days
- Weekdays; Saturdays on request
- Enquiries
- The contact form
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
Why people ask for loft storage in West Kensington
A new loft conversion often needs storage to finish it. Standard furniture rarely suits the new room. Storage made for the slopes completes it.
Here’s what loft storage can help with:
- No wardrobe that fits under the slope
- A loft room with too many jobs
- Furniture that cannot get up to the loft
- An empty dormer that could hold shelves
Garden Lodge, about 0.4 miles north-east, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. If your own home is a period one, the knee walls of a converted loft can take drawers as well as cupboards.
Questions to ask before you hire anyone
- Are the boards named, like MDF or plywood?
- How they deal with uneven walls and floors
- How parking will work on your street
- Will other trades be needed, and who arranges them?
What affects the price in West Kensington
Every room is different, so every job is quoted on its own. This is what makes the difference:
- The width and height of the space
- How many doors and drawers there are
- What goes inside: rails, shelves, drawers and dividers
- The finish: spray painted or hand painted
Getting to the room affects the job as well. Several flights of stairs, a small lift or a narrow hall can mean smaller sections and more carrying. The price comes in a written quote, worked out from the measurements and the design you choose.
Helping us understand the room
The more you can tell us at the start, the better the design visit goes. When you get in touch, it’s useful to send:
- Approximate measurements of the space
- Pictures showing the full wall, from floor to ceiling
- The postcode, so we can plan the visit
- Anything in the way, like radiators, sockets, switches, a boiler or meters
To get a quote for loft storage in West Kensington, message us from the contact page. Let us know 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 written quote.
Flats, blocks and rented homes
If you live in a flat, getting the furniture in is planned from the start. We measure the stairs, landings, lift and doorways not just the room, so each section is sized to get through without a struggle.
Conversions and newer flats often have stud walls rather than solid brick. We choose fixings to suit the wall.
Honest limits
Our work is the furniture itself: designing it, making it in our workshop and fitting it. That means:
- Structural changes, like cutting into rafters or joists
- Loft conversions, which we don’t carry out
- Adding or replacing insulation
If in doubt, you can send us a few details through our contact form and describe the room. How it works.
What it is made from
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Spray-painted finish
- Hand-painted finish
- Birch plywood
- Eaves doors and drawers
- Sloped wardrobe tops
Questions from West Kensington
Do you make loft storage for homes in West Kensington?
Yes, we work across Hammersmith and Fulham, West Kensington included, and across the rest of London. To get started, you can use our contact form with some details.
How do you fit loft storage in a flat in West Kensington?
We measure the route in not just the room: the stairs, landings, lift and doors. Eaves cupboards are built 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 is worth checking those early.
How is the furniture painted?
There are two ways to finish it: spray painted or hand painted. Spray painting gives a smooth, even finish, and hand painting is easy to touch up.
Can you build a wardrobe under a sloping ceiling?
Yes. A wardrobe made for the slope fits where a standard one can’t. Hanging goes where there is height, with shelves where it’s low. It’s cut to fit the ceiling and walls exactly.
Can you fit furniture to uneven walls?
Walls and floors that aren’t true are part of the job in older homes. We trim the edges to follow the wall and level the base.
Do I need planning permission for fitted furniture?
Not normally. Inside a house, fitted furniture does not normally need planning permission. If the building is listed, works affecting its character can require listed building consent, so check with the council first.
Loft storage for homes in West Kensington
The biggest shares of homes in the streets around West Kensington were built before 1919 (about 68%) and between 1973 and 1999 (about 11%), in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. It’s a good starting point, though every room is still measured, as two homes of the same age rarely match. Part of West Kensington is in a conservation area, going by Historic England’s data. Planning controls in conservation areas are mainly concerned with the outside of buildings, so fitting furniture inside a house does not normally need permission. The council can confirm if you’re not sure. About 53% of households in the neighbourhood around West Kensington live in purpose-built flats, according to Census 2021. In a block, each section is sized to get up the stairs or into the lift and through the door. Many blocks have rules on lift booking and working hours, so check with the managing agent before fitting day.
If your children go to The Fulham Boys School or a school nearby, eaves cupboards can give school bags, shoes and sports kit a proper home. If you live in a period home close to St Cuthbert's, the knee walls of a converted loft can take drawers as well as cupboards.
West Kensington is about 1 mile south of Fulham, within the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. We work across all London boroughs and the City of London, and West Kensington is part of that. We cover places right across Hammersmith and Fulham, large and small.
We cover every part of W14, SW6 and SW5. Whether you live on a street like Sun Road, Star Road and Field Road or on one nearby, we can visit to measure up for loft storage. Close by, we also work in North End (1 mile west), Brook Green (1 mile north-west), Fulham (1 mile south), Hammersmith (1 mile west) and Brackenbury Village (1 mile north-west). Elsewhere in Hammersmith and Fulham, we also cover Chelsea Harbour (2 miles south-east), Sands End (2 miles south-east), White City (2 miles north-west), College Park (3 miles north-west) and Old Oak Common (3 miles north-west).
Around West Kensington
The streets we cover here include those near Seven Stars pub, Avonmore Primary School and Abdus Salam Library. For rail, the closest station is Kensington Olympia station, about 0.5 miles north. Other landmarks nearby include Fulham Hospital (0.6 miles south-west) and Chelsea Stadium Tour And Museum (1 mile south-east). Green spaces nearby include Campden Hill and WWT London Wetland Centre.