Southwark · London
Under-Stairs Storage in Bankside
Pull-out drawers, cupboards and coat storage under the stairs, designed for your room in Bankside. After a design visit and a written quote, it’s built in our workshop and fitted in your home.
- Coats and shoes piling up in the hall
- A meter or fuse board buried behind clutter
- A vacuum cleaner that has nowhere to go
Under-stairs storage in Bankside
Why bespoke in Bankside?
Standard storage is built for a level floor and a square space, and the space under a staircase is neither. Boxed units normally leave awkward gaps under the slope and dead space behind. Storage made for the space follows the angle of the stairs and uses its full depth. It costs more than something off the shelf, and what you gain is the space a standard unit cannot reach. Rooms in newer homes are often compact, and standard depths can take too much floor, whereas fitted pieces can be as shallow as the space needs. It can still go to the ceiling.
No two rooms cost the same to furnish, because size, layout and finish change from job to job. Spray painting and hand painting are different processes, which affects the cost. You’ll see the figure in your written quote, after the design visit.
What you get with us
- Built in our workshop and fitted in your home
- Built around your room
- Work across the whole of London
- Saturdays by prior arrangement
About our under-stairs storage in Bankside
Deep pull-out drawers bring the back of the space within reach. Instead of crawling in to find something, you slide the drawer out and everything is in view. Cupboards suit the taller end, where coats can hang and a vacuum cleaner can stand. A mix of drawers and cupboards is often the best use of the space. People usually come to us about an under-stairs cupboard full of clutter and a hallway crowded with coats and shoes, and the answer is made at our workshop from birch plywood and moisture-resistant MDF with a spray-painted or hand-painted finish.
A hall in a home built since 2000 is often compact, with several doors leading off it, which leaves little wall for storage. Around Bankside, many homes were built since 2000, so that’s worth planning for. Even a shallow run can hold coats and shoes without crowding the doors.
A quote in writing is the clearest record of what we have agreed. It describes the under-stairs cupboard we have designed for the room, its materials and its finish, and it’s what the workshop builds to.
- Where
- Bankside (SE1, EC4Y, EC4V)
- Area
- Southwark
- Prices
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- Design visit, then a written quote
- Making
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Made from
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Fitting days
- Weekdays, and Saturdays by prior arrangement
- Get in touch
- Our contact form
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
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Questions from Bankside
My home in Bankside is a flat. How do you get the furniture in?
At the design visit, we measure the way in as well as the room. The furniture is made in sections that fit the stairs and lift, and put together in the room. It helps to check any building rules and your lease before fitting day.
Do you cover homes near London Blackfriars station?
Yes, homes across Southwark and the rest of London are within the area we cover. You can use our contact form to arrange a design visit.
Can the fitting be on a Saturday?
Yes, by arrangement. Tell us when you get in touch if a Saturday suits you best.
Do you move sockets or add lighting?
No. Any new wiring, sockets or lights need an electrician, and some electrical work in homes is covered by Part P of the Building Regulations. We’ll design around them.
Is an outside wall a problem for fitted furniture?
An outside wall can be colder and damper than an inside one, so ventilation behind and inside the furniture helps to avoid condensation. Any damp needs sorting by the right specialist before fitting.
Do I need permission in a conservation area?
Normally not. Inside a house, fitted furniture doesn’t normally need planning permission. Listed buildings can require listed building consent for works that affect their character, so check with the council first.
Under-stairs storage in Bankside: local notes
The biggest shares of homes in the streets around Bankside were built since 2000 (about 48%) and before 1919 (about 19%), based on the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax data. The age of a home tells us a lot about its walls, floors and ceilings, and so about how under-stairs cupboards are fixed and fitted. The National Heritage List has 260 entries within half a mile of the centre of Bankside. Older homes nearby may have original joinery, shutters or panelling worth keeping, and the furniture can be designed around them rather than over them. TfL’s Ultra Low Emission Zone covers every part of London, Southwark included. That includes the vans that bring and fit furniture in Bankside. We go through parking and access at the measuring visit.
If your home is as old as some of the listed buildings nearby, like Church of St Benet, original features like shutters, panelling and fireplaces are worth designing around. For a listed home, fixing into original features can require listed building consent. If your children go to London Nautical School or a school nearby, under-stairs cupboards can be planned around what a family needs to keep, from coats and bags to sports kit.
Bankside is within the London Borough of Southwark, about 3 miles south of East Dulwich. Anywhere in Bankside, the process is the same: a design visit, a written quote, furniture made in our workshop and fitting in your home. Our work takes in places right across Southwark, from the busiest high streets to quiet residential roads.
Design visits and fitting in SE1, EC4Y and EC4V work the same way as everywhere else we cover. Our area takes in homes on streets like Bear Lane, Bush Lane and Swan Lane, for under-stairs storage and any of our other fitted furniture. The A201 and A300 run close to Bankside, so if your home is on a main road, mention it when you get in touch. Close by, we also work in Blackfriars (1 mile north-west), Temple (1 mile north-west), Temple Bar (1 mile north-west), Waterloo (1 mile south-west) and Smithfield (1 mile north). Elsewhere in Southwark, we also cover East Dulwich (3 miles south), Herne Hill (4 miles south), Camberwell (2 miles south), Peckham (3 miles south-east), Rotherhithe (3 miles east) and Surrey Quays (3 miles south-east). Bankside is among the bigger places we cover in Southwark.
Near you in Bankside
We fit furniture in homes around The Cathedral School of St Saviour and St Mary Overy, St Andrew's and St John's Church of England Primary School and St Mary-at-Hill. Also close by are Barts Health Archives (0.6 miles north) and Founders Arms (a few minutes’ walk west). There is a railway station in Bankside itself: London Blackfriars station. Other landmarks nearby include Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children and Women (0.6 miles west) and Gabriel's Wharf (within half a mile west). Not far away are St. James's Park Lake and Ludgate Hill.
How fitting works for under-stairs storage
You will not need to do much on the day. We need someone to let us in at the start, and the room should already be cleared, as we’ll have talked about at the design visit. From there, we protect the floors, bring the furniture in and get on with the fitting. How long the fitting takes depends on the size of the space and the design, and the fitting days are agreed in your quote. Newer blocks often have concierge desks, entry systems and rules on lift booking, so it helps to sort them out in advance. The furniture is built in sections that fit the lift and doorways.
- To begin, send us a few details through our contact form; a brief note on the space and what it holds now is plenty.
- At the design visit we measure the space and plan the storage around the meters, so readers and engineers can still reach them.
- You receive a written quote for the storage.
- The storage is built in our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, with access to the meters planned in.
- We fit it in your home, scribed to the stairs and the walls, with a spray-painted or hand-painted finish.
Before fitting day
- Book any lift and let the concierge or building manager know
- Move anything in the hall or on the stairs out of the way
- Take down pictures, mirrors and shelves from the wall
Arranging a design visit
If you already have something in mind, tell us; if you don’t, that’s fine, and we can work it out together. The design is talked through at the visit, once we have measured, and the written quote then sets it out. To start, send us a few details through our contact form.
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What affects the price in Bankside
A few things affect what fitted furniture costs:
- How many doors and drawers there are
- Parking and unloading on your street
- The finish: spray painted or hand painted
- The overall size of the piece
What goes inside matters as much as the outside: rails, shelves, drawers and dividers all add work. At the design visit, we work out what you need inside.
What we need to know
The more you can tell us at the start, the better the design visit goes. It is useful to include:
- Anything in the way, like radiators, sockets, switches, a boiler or meters
- Your postcode and the borough
- A few pictures of the space, taken from the doorway and from each corner
- How you want to use the space
To get a quote for under-stairs storage in Bankside, use our contact form. Let us know the room and the rough idea, plus any rough sizes. We’ll arrange a design visit, then send a quote in writing.
Materials and finishes
Pull-out drawers
Some pull-outs are tall, with a rail for coats or room for a vacuum. Shorter drawers lower down suit shoes and bags. We plan the mix during the design visit.
Birch plywood
We use birch plywood where strength matters, as it is strong and holds screws firmly. It’s a good choice for drawer boxes and carcasses that carry weight. The layered edge can be left on show or painted.
The problems under-stairs storage solve
Others are looking for a small place to work. Where the space is open to a room, a built-in desk with shelves can fit there neatly. It’s a modest workspace, well suited to a laptop and the household paperwork.
A few of the things people ask us to solve are these:
- A sloping corner nobody can reach
- Storage that does not match the hallway
- Nowhere to keep the vacuum and ironing board
- A fuse board that’s hard to get to
The wider area includes historic houses such as Mansion House, about 0.6 miles north-east. For a period home anywhere nearby, the triangle under an old staircase is often deeper than it looks.
What to check before you book
- Have they measured the stairs, lift and doorways?
- Whether they measure the room themselves
- How they deal with uneven walls and floors
- Where they’ll park and unload