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Under-Stairs Storage in Blackheath
Under-stairs storage in Blackheath: pull-out drawers, cupboards and coat storage under the stairs. Each piece is designed at a visit to your home, made at our workshop and fitted by us.
- A low corner too deep to reach into
- Stairs open to a room, with clutter on show
- Nowhere to put coats, shoes and bags
Under-stairs storage designed for your room
What it is made from
Hand-painted finish
Hand painting can be done on site after fitting. It is easy to touch up if it gets marked, which suits a busy hallway.
Birch plywood
Its layered build gives birch plywood its strength. We use it for carcasses, shelves and drawer boxes, with the edge either shown or painted.
Under-stairs storage in Blackheath
Pull-out drawers make the most of the low, deep end of the space. Rather than reaching into the dark, you pull the drawer towards you and see what’s inside. At the tall end, a cupboard works well for coats, an ironing board or the vacuum. A mix of drawers and cupboards is often the best use of the space. If you are living with cleaning things with no proper home and a fuse board that’s hard to get to, under-stairs cupboards made from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, finished by spray or by hand can solve it.
Homes from the 1950s and 1960s typically have plain, regular rooms, so fitted storage can be crisp and simple to match. Many homes around Blackheath date from the post-war decades. We still measure everything, as no room is perfectly square.
We write quotes in plain English, without jargon. They say what will be made, what it is made from and how it will be finished, taken from what we agreed at the visit.
- Where
- Blackheath (SE3, SE13, SE10)
- Area
- Lewisham
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Making
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Boards and paint
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- Fitting days
- Monday to Friday; Saturdays by prior arrangement
- Get in touch
- Send us a message
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
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Questions from Blackheath
Does a conservation area in or near Blackheath affect fitted furniture?
Normally not: conservation area rules mainly cover the outside of buildings, and fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission. Listed buildings are different, as works inside that affect their character may need listed building consent from the council. The council’s planning or conservation team can tell you if in doubt.
Can you make under-stairs storage for a home in Blackheath?
Yes, Blackheath is within the area we cover, which takes in all of Lewisham and the rest of London. We start with a design visit to measure the room and talk through what you need, and then we send a quote.
What if my walls and floors are out of level?
It’s something we deal with all the time. The furniture is scribed to follow the walls and levelled on feet or a plinth, so there are no gaps at the sides.
Can the under-stairs storage be painted to match the hall?
Yes. The storage is spray-painted or hand-painted in a colour agreed with you. You can match it to the walls, the banisters or the skirting, so it sits quietly in the hall.
Should I send pictures?
Yes, they help. A few pictures of the room, from floor to ceiling, tell us a lot, especially with rough sizes. You can send them when you get in touch through our contact form.
Can you come on a Saturday?
Yes, by arrangement. If a Saturday works better for you, say so when you contact us.
How we price under-stairs storage
A few things affect what fitted furniture costs:
- Where a van can park, such as a permit bay or a bay suspension
- Hanging rails, shelves, drawers and other fittings inside
- Access to the room, such as stairs, lifts and narrow halls
- The number of doors and drawers
We don’t publish set prices, because each job is designed for a single room. Instead, we measure, go through the design and then quote in writing, naming the materials and finish. To start, get in touch through our contact form.
Getting in touch
A little information at the start saves time later. If you can, send:
- How you want to use the space
- Rough measurements: width, height and depth
- Pictures showing the full wall, from floor to ceiling
- Your postcode and the borough
To make a start, send us a few details through our contact form and tell us a little about the room and what you want the furniture to do. We then arrange a design visit to measure and discuss the design, and send you a written quote afterwards.
Under-stairs storage for homes in Blackheath
In the area around Blackheath, the largest groups of homes date from before 1919 (about 42%) and between 1945 and 1972 (about 36%), on the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures for 2025. Knowing roughly when a home was built helps, because walls and fixings change from one era to the next. Part of Blackheath is in the Blackheath Conservation Area, one of the conservation areas recorded by Historic England. Conservation area rules mainly cover the outside of buildings, so fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission. Your council can advise if you’re unsure. About 42% of homes in the area around Blackheath were built before 1919, going by the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax figures. Under the stairs in an older terrace is often where the meters or the fuse board are, so the design keeps them accessible.
If your home is one of the older houses near Church of All Saints, pull-out drawers can reach right to the back of a deep under-stairs space. If you live in a flat close to Blackheath station, check any building rules on lifts and working hours early, and the sections will be sized for the way in.
Blackheath is about 2 miles west of New Cross, in the London Borough of Lewisham. Anywhere in Blackheath, the process is the same: we visit and measure, send a written quote, make the furniture in our workshop and fit it. Across Lewisham, we cover Blackheath and the places around it.
Design visits and fitting in SE3, SE13 and SE10 work the same way as everywhere else we cover. Our area takes in homes on streets such as Pond Road, Heath Lane and Wemyss Road, whether you want under-stairs storage or another piece made for the room. We also cover Vanbrugh Park Estate (1 mile north), Greenwich (1 mile north-west), Maze Hill (1 mile north), Lewisham (1 mile south-west) and Westcombe Park (1 mile north-east). We also make under-stairs storage in nearby places like New Cross (2 miles west), Deptford (2 miles west), Catford (2 miles south-west), Surrey Canal (3 miles north-west), Sydenham (4 miles south-west) and Telegraph Hill (2 miles west).
Near you in Blackheath
The streets we cover here include those near Blackheath Proprietary School, St Matthew Academy and The Princess Of Wales Pub and the streets around them. There is a railway station in Blackheath itself: Blackheath station. A little further out are Lewisham Shopping Centre (1.1 miles south-west) and Royal Observatory (0.7 miles north-west). Green spaces nearby include Birdbrook Road Nature Reserve.
What happens on fitting day
Period rooms often have skirting boards, picture rails, cornices or coving for the furniture to meet. 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 size of the space and the design, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. Walls in post-war homes can be concrete or blockwork, so the right fixings are part of the plan for fitting day. Floors and doorways are protected while the sections come in, and the pieces are assembled in the room.
- You get in touch and describe the stairs and the hall.
- We visit to measure the space at several points along the slope, as stairs and walls are rarely square in older houses.
- Your written quote sets out the design, materials and finish.
- The drawers, doors and carcasses are made in our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, cut to the angle of the stairs.
- On fitting day the units are set level and scribed to follow the stairs and walls. The finish is sprayed in the workshop or painted by hand once it’s in.
Preparing the room
- Move anything in the hall or on the stairs out of the way
- Let us know where the boiler and meters are
- Get any new sockets or wiring done by your electrician before fitting day
Arranging a design visit
If you know what you want, say so; if not, we can work it out together at the visit. The design is talked through at the visit, once we have measured, and the written quote that follows sets it out. To start, send us a few details through our contact form.
Advice
Why people ask for under-stairs storage in Blackheath
Some people simply want somewhere for coats and shoes. With a rail, hooks and shoe drawers under the stairs, the hall stays clear, and the family has an obvious place to put things.
A few of the things people ask us to solve include:
- A vacuum cleaner that has nowhere to go
- Storage that does not match the hallway
- Space under the stairs that’s hard to use
- A sloping corner nobody can reach
If your home is as old as some of the listed buildings nearby, like Numbers 1 to 14 (consecutive) the Paragon, original features like shutters, panelling and fireplaces are worth designing around. For a listed home, fixing into original features can require listed building consent.
Before you choose who makes it
- Have they measured the stairs, lift and doorways?
- How doors and drawers are fitted
- Whether they measure the room themselves
- Can you see real work of theirs?
Bespoke under-stairs storage or ready-made?
For a few hooks and a shelf for the vacuum, a ready-made solution can do the job. Bespoke storage makes sense when you want every part of the space working, not just the easy part. We are happy to talk through which suits you during the design visit. A room without alcoves gives ready-made furniture nothing to sit into, so it stands out from the wall, whereas fitted furniture can make its own recesses.
What goes inside matters as much as the outside: drawers take more making than shelves, and each rail, divider or pull-out adds to the work. At the design visit, we work out what you need inside.
What you get with us
- A spray or hand-painted finish
- Saturday visits and fitting by prior arrangement
- Edges scribed to follow your walls
- We visit, measure and go through the design before we quote
Take a look at our comparison of bespoke and off-the-shelf or what to look for in a quote.