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Under-Stairs Storage in Brentham Garden Suburb
Under-stairs storage in Brentham Garden Suburb: pull-out drawers, cupboards and coat storage under the stairs. Every piece is built in our workshop and fitted in your home, with a spray or hand-painted finish.
- Struggling to reach the gas or electricity meter
- A hallway crowded with coats and shoes
- Space under the stairs that is hard to use
Under-stairs storage for your home in Brentham Garden Suburb
What we do not do
It is worth being clear about where our work stops:
- Painting the hallway walls and ceiling
- New sockets, lights or wiring, which are for your electrician
- Altering or cutting into the stairs
If in doubt, you can message us from the contact page and describe the room before you arrange a visit. How a job runs, step by step.
What goes into it
- Coat hooks and shoe shelves
- Birch plywood
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Pull-out drawers
- Hand-painted finish
- Spray-painted finish
Under-stairs storage for homes in Brentham Garden Suburb
In many terraced houses, the gas meter, electricity meter or fuse board sits under the stairs. These must stay easy to reach for meter readers and engineers. Our designs keep a clear way to them, often behind their own door, so the space works hard without hiding anything that matters. At the design visit in Brentham Garden Suburb, we note what’s there and design around it. If your home has nowhere to put coats, shoes and bags and nowhere to keep the vacuum and ironing board, that is what under-stairs cupboards are for, made from birch ply and moisture-resistant MDF, painted by hand or sprayed.
A good part of the housing around Brentham Garden Suburb is interwar, semi-detached or detached. In a typical 1930s house, storage tends to hide in the bay, under the stairs and in the box room. Any meters or fuse boards that need to stay reachable are designed around.
The quote comes in writing, so you can read it at your own pace. It covers the design, materials and finish agreed at the visit.
- Place
- Brentham Garden Suburb (W5, W13, UB6)
- Area
- Ealing
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- Design visit, then a quote in writing
- Making
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Made from
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- Fitting days
- Weekdays, and Saturdays by prior arrangement
- Enquiries
- Our contact form
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
What prompts under-stairs storage in Brentham Garden Suburb
Many people struggle with the shallow, sloping end under the bottom steps. It is too low to stand in and too deep to reach into. Pull-out drawers solve that by bringing the back of the space to you.
Most of the enquiries we get are about needs like these:
- A meter or fuse board buried behind clutter
- A low corner too deep to reach into
- A staircase with untidy space beneath it
- Nowhere to keep the vacuum and ironing board
If your home is as old as some of the listed buildings nearby, such as Church of St Peter, 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
- How they handle walls that aren’t straight
- How doors and drawers are fitted
- Have they thought about parking near you?
- Whether you will get a quote in writing, not just a figure
When is bespoke worth it?
Off-the-shelf furniture can be a sensible choice. In a room with square walls and standard sizes, it can work well, and it’s quick to buy.
Bespoke work comes into its own in rooms that aren’t square. Older London rooms tend to have leaning walls, sloping floors and alcoves of different widths, which leaves standard units with gaps at the sides and top.
Places near Brentham Garden Suburb
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Flats, conversions and lettings
Landlords furnishing a let use fitted furniture too, as it makes good use of an awkward room. The materials are the same as for any home: moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, with a spray or hand-painted finish.
In a flat, the route in matters as much as the room. We measure the stairs, landings, lift and doorways not just the room, so each section is sized to get through without a struggle.
Questions we’re often asked
Do you cover homes near Ealing Broadway station?
Yes, homes across Ealing and the rest of London are within the area we cover. You can use our contact form to arrange a design visit.
Can you make under-stairs storage for a home in Brentham Garden Suburb?
Yes, we work across Ealing, Brentham Garden Suburb included, and across the rest of London. You can send us a few details through our contact form to arrange a design visit.
Can you build storage around a gas meter or fuse board?
Yes. It’s common to find a meter or fuse board under the stairs, and access has to be kept. We note them at the measuring visit and plan the drawers and doors around them. Moving a meter isn’t our work, so we design for where it is now.
Can the under-stairs storage be painted to match the hall?
Yes. You choose the colour, and we agree it before the work starts. A spray-painted finish is done in our workshop, and a hand-painted one can be done on site. Both can be matched to a colour you already have.
What if my walls and floors are out of level?
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.
Do you do the electrics?
No. We are carpenters, so electrical work is for your electrician. We can plan cable routes into the design.
Under-stairs storage in Brentham Garden Suburb: local notes
About 40% of the homes in the area around Brentham Garden Suburb went up between 1919 and 1939, and about 21% before 1919, based on the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax data. We take that into account at the design visit, since older and newer walls take different fixings. Brentham Garden Suburb is partly covered by the Brentham Garden Estate Conservation Area, according to Historic England’s records. Being in a conservation area mainly affects changes to the outside of a building, and fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission. If you are unsure, check with the council before work starts. Controlled parking zones are run by the boroughs, so the rules in Ealing are set locally. Depending on your street in Brentham Garden Suburb, a visitor permit, a paid bay or a council bay suspension may be needed. We ask about parking at the design visit, so the day can be planned around it.
If you live in a period home close to Church of St Barnabas, the space under the stairs may hold the meters or the fuse board, and the cupboards are planned around them. For a family home near St Gregory's Catholic Primary School, under-stairs cupboards can be planned around what a family needs to keep, from coats and bags to sports kit.
Brentham Garden Suburb is about 1 mile south of Ealing, part of the London Borough of Ealing. Our work covers every London borough and the City of London, Brentham Garden Suburb included. In Ealing, Brentham Garden Suburb is one of the places we cover, and the borough has 19 places on our list.
Design visits and fitting in W5, W13 and UB6 work the same way as everywhere else we cover. Our area takes in homes on streets such as Kings Road, Selby Road and Marsh Road, for under-stairs storage and any of our other fitted furniture. If you are just outside Brentham Garden Suburb, we also cover Pitshanger (1 mile west), Perivale (1 mile north-west), Ealing (1 mile south), Hanwell (2 miles south-west) and South Ealing (2 miles south). Other parts of Ealing we cover include Acton (2 miles south-east), Southall (3 miles south-west), Greenford (2 miles north-west), Northolt (3 miles north-west), Acton Green (3 miles south-east) and Bedford Park (3 miles south-east).
Local landmarks in Brentham Garden Suburb
We fit furniture in homes around St Benedict's School, Ealing Independent College and Brentham Clubhouse pub. For rail, the closest station is Ealing Broadway station, about 0.9 miles south of the centre. Nearby you’ll also find London Transport Museum Depot (1.9 miles south-east) and Central Middlesex Hospital (1.7 miles east). Not far away are Fox Wood and Castlebar Hill.
How fitting day works
Getting everything level comes first. Floors are often out of level, so adjustable feet or a plinth take up the difference. Only then is it fixed to the wall, with fixings chosen to suit brick, lath and plaster or plasterboard. A front path or side gate can make the carry from the van simpler. Gates, paths and steps up to the door are part of the route we measure. Floors, stairs and doorways are protected on the way in, and the sections are assembled in place.
- You get in touch and tell us what’s under the stairs now, including any gas meter, electricity meter or fuse board.
- We visit to measure the slope and the floor, and agree a design that keeps any meter or fuse board accessible.
- 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 we arrive
- Check the building’s rules for trades and lift bookings
- Clear the area where the furniture is going
- Arrange any electrical changes with your electrician beforehand
How to get a quote
To get a quote for under-stairs storage in Brentham Garden Suburb, use our contact form. Let us know the room and the rough idea, plus any rough sizes. Next comes a design visit, followed by a written quote.