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Under-Stairs Storage in Blackfriars
Under-stairs storage in Blackfriars: pull-out drawers, cupboards and coat storage under the stairs. We make each piece in our workshop and fit it in your home, with a spray or hand-painted finish.
- The low end of the space going to waste
- A vacuum cleaner that has nowhere to go
- A meter or fuse board buried behind clutter
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What affects the price in Blackfriars
Prices vary from room to room, for these reasons:
- How easy it is to get the furniture into the room
- Spray painting or hand painting
- Parking and unloading on your street
- The internal fittings
Rooms that are not square take more work: uneven walls, sloping floors and angled ceilings all add scribing and cutting on site. That’s reflected in the quote, which we write after seeing the room.
Helping us understand the room
Some details help us understand the job before we visit. When you contact us, it helps to send:
- How you want to use the space
- Anything fixed to the wall that the furniture needs to work around
- Approximate measurements of the space
- The postcode, so we can plan the visit
Pictures help us understand the room before we visit. A few pictures showing the walls, the corners and where the ceiling meets them tell us a lot about the space. To share them, message us from the contact page, and we will arrange a design visit.
Under-stairs storage in Blackfriars: what you get
Every staircase has its own shape. The underside slopes, the side of the stairs runs at its own angle and the floor below is rarely perfectly level. We scribe the storage to the stairs and the walls, so it looks as though it has always been there. That is something a standard unit can’t do, in Blackfriars or anywhere else. If you are living with cleaning things with no proper home and a hallway crowded with coats and shoes, under-stairs cupboards made from birch ply and moisture-resistant MDF, painted by hand or sprayed can solve it.
Some post-war homes still have their original hall or landing cupboards, which can be rebuilt with better shelves and doors. Around Blackfriars, many homes come from the post-war decades, so reworking those spaces can be a good place to start. The new storage is made to the opening and fixed to suit the wall.
Our quotes are written in plain words. They say what will be made, what it’s made from and how it will be finished, taken from what we agreed at the visit.
- Location
- Blackfriars (SE1, EC1M, EC1N)
- Borough
- City of London
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Made
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Materials and finish
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- Fitting days
- Weekdays, and Saturdays by arrangement
- Enquiries
- The contact form
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
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Blackfriars homes and under-stairs storage
In the streets around Blackfriars, the largest groups of homes date from between 1945 and 1972 (about 40%) and the years since 2000 (about 27%), 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. Entries on the National Heritage List near the centre of Blackfriars include Apothecaries Hall (Grade I), less than half a mile north-east, and Church of St Bride (Grade I), under half a mile north-west. If your own home is listed, changes inside that alter its character, such as fixing into or removing original joinery, can need listed building consent. Check with the council’s conservation officer first. A quarter or more of the homes in the neighbourhood around Blackfriars (about 27%) were built since 2000, on the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures for 2025. Homes built since 2000 rarely have much storage, and they tend to have stud walls, so under-stairs cupboards are designed with fixings to suit.
For a flat near London Blackfriars station, under-stairs cupboards are made in sections sized for the stairs, landings and lift, so measuring the route matters as much as measuring the room. The wider area includes historic houses like Dr Johnson's House, about 0.2 miles north-west. If your own home is a period one, under-stairs cupboards are scribed to walls and stair strings that are rarely straight. For a family home near Mercers' School, under-stairs cupboards can give school bags, shoes and sports kit a proper home.
Blackfriars is about 1 mile east of City of London, in the City of London. Design visits and fitting in Blackfriars can be on a Saturday, by prior arrangement. Our work takes in places right across the City of London.
We make under-stairs storage across SE1, EC1M and EC1N. Our area takes in homes on streets like Oat Lane, Bear Lane and Shoe Lane, along with the roads around them, for under-stairs storage and any of our other fitted furniture. Blackfriars is near the A4 and A40, so if your home is on a main road, mention it when you get in touch. Other places close to Blackfriars include Temple (1 mile west), Temple Bar (1 mile west), Bankside (1 mile south-east), Smithfield (1 mile north) and Clare Market (1 mile west).
Near you in Blackfriars
Around Blackfriars, we cover homes near London Nautical School, St Mary-at-Hill and St Alban's Church of England Primary School. You will also find Barts Health Archives (less than half a mile north-east) and The Black Friar pub (within half a mile south-east). Blackfriars has its own railway station: London Blackfriars station. Nearby you’ll also find Montfichet's Tower (less than half a mile north-east) and St Brides Crypt Museum (under half a mile north-west). Green spaces nearby include St. James's Park Lake and Ludgate Hill.
Practical tips
New paint needs time to cure fully, so go gently with it for a while. Beyond that, these tips help:
- Think about handles and how the fronts will look from the hall
- Look for meters, a fuse board or pipes before we visit
- Let us know if the hall is being decorated
- Empty the cupboard so we can measure every corner
Before we leave, we check every drawer and door with you. If there’s a meter or fuse board, we make sure its door opens fully and the meter is easy to see. You will know everything works as planned.
Keep sharp or very heavy items away from the painted fronts. Store tools in a box or bag, not loose against the doors. A small chip on a hand-painted finish is easy to touch in.
From workshop to your room
The last stage of the day is the finish. With a spray finish from the workshop, there’s normally only filling and touching up to do in the room; hand painting, if that is what you chose, can be done in place once everything is fitted. The finish is always the one agreed in your quote. Fixing into concrete takes a heavy-duty drill and makes some noise, so if neighbours are close, a note before fitting day can help. Fitting day is planned around any building rules on noisy work. We tidy as we go.
- First you let us know about the stairs and what you’d like to store beneath them.
- We come to measure, note any meters or fuse boards and discuss the design.
- A quote in writing follows, with the design, finish and fitting days set out, for you to read through.
- Your storage is made at our workshop and painted to the colour you chose.
- We bring it to your home, fit it and leave it ready to use.
Preparing the room
- Clear the area where the furniture is going
- Keep pets in another room while we work
- Let us know if your street is in a controlled parking zone
Arranging a design visit
To get a quote for under-stairs storage in Blackfriars, use our contact form. Let us know the room and the rough idea. Next comes a design visit, followed by a written quote.
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Bespoke or off-the-shelf?
A standard unit knows nothing about your meter or fuse board. Fitted in front of one, it can make access tricky for readings and safety checks. Bespoke storage is planned around them from the start. Off-the-shelf furniture tends to leave gaps at the ends of a wall and space above it, while fitted furniture fills the space. The pieces are made to the room’s own widths.
Prices are quoted for your room, once we’ve measured and talked through the design. The price depends mainly on the size of the piece, how many doors and drawers it has and what goes inside.
Why choose Bespoke Carpentry in Blackfriars
- Workshop-made and fitted by us
- Every quote follows a design visit
- 300+ projects completed
- Scribed to uneven walls
Take a look at our comparison of bespoke and off-the-shelf or how to compare quotes.
What it is made from
Doors and drawer fronts
Any access door for a meter can be made to look like the other fronts. It opens fully so the meter stays easy to read. The rest of the fronts can be doors, drawers or both.
Pull-out drawers
Deep drawers on runners let you use the low end of the space without crawling in. We size each drawer for what you plan to keep in it. Many designs use a run of drawers stepping down with the stairs.
Questions we are often asked
Can parking be tricky on fitting day in Blackfriars?
It can be: much of inner London is covered by controlled parking zones. 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. It helps to tell us about parking during the design visit, so we can plan the day around it. The whole City of London is also inside the Congestion Charge zone, and the ULEZ covers every London borough.
How do you fit under-stairs storage in a flat in Blackfriars?
We measure the route in as well as the room: the stairs, landings, lift and doors. Under-stairs 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 is worth checking those early.
My walls aren’t straight. Is that a problem?
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.
What affects the price of under-stairs storage?
Size, doors and drawers, what goes inside and the finish all affect it, along with access and parking. We send a quote in writing after the design visit.
Does someone need to be home during the fitting?
We need someone to let us in at the start of the day. It also helps to have someone around at the end, so we can go over the finished furniture together.
Do I choose the paint colour?
You do. The paint colour is agreed with you before anything is painted.