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Under-Stairs Storage in Covent Garden
Under-stairs storage for your home in Covent Garden: pull-out drawers, cupboards and coat storage under the stairs. Each piece is designed at a visit to your home, made in our workshop and fitted by us.
- A fuse board that’s hard to get to
- An old cupboard door that does not suit the hall
- Coats and shoes piling up in the hall
Under-stairs storage for your home in Covent Garden
Under-stairs storage for homes in Covent Garden
Where a staircase is open to a living space, the storage under it becomes part of the room. That calls for clean lines, well-fitted doors and a finish that suits the rest of the room. Fronts can be plain or panelled, with handles chosen to suit the room. In Covent Garden or anywhere else, the aim is storage that looks considered, not added on. People typically come to us about a fuse board that’s hard to get to and wanting a quiet corner for paperwork; the furniture is made from birch plywood and moisture-resistant MDF with a spray-painted or hand-painted finish.
In streets where many homes were built before 1919, as they were around Covent Garden, 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. Sash and bay windows are common in houses of that age too, and good places for seating with storage below.
Where other trades are needed, for instance an electrician to move a socket, we point that out, so it can be arranged before fitting day. The quote itself covers our work, from the design to the materials and finish.
- Where
- Covent Garden (W1F, W1D, W1T)
- Area
- Westminster
- Cost
- 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, and Saturdays by prior arrangement
- Get in touch
- Send us a message
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
Where other trades come in
Damp treatment and building work are for other specialists, so these points are worth knowing:
- Moving gas pipes under the stairs
- Any wiring or new lights, which need an electrician
- Reshaping or rebuilding the staircase
Not sure whether your space suits under-stairs storage? You can tell us about the room on our contact form and we will tell you before you arrange a visit. How it works.
Materials and parts
- Pull-out drawers
- Hand-painted finish
- Coat hooks and shoe shelves
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Spray-painted finish
- Birch plywood
Questions we are often asked
Will parking be an issue for fitting furniture in Covent Garden?
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 is useful to let us know about parking during the design visit, so we can plan the day around it.
I live near London Charing Cross station. Is that in your area?
Yes, homes across Westminster and the rest of London are within the area we cover. You can tell us about the room on our contact form to arrange a design visit.
Can I send pictures before the visit?
Yes. They give us a feel for the space before we visit. It is useful to show radiators, sockets and anything else on the wall.
Do you move sockets or add lighting?
No. Electrical work isn’t something we do; it’s a job for your electrician. We can allow for cable routes in the design, and new sockets should be in place before fitting day.
How long does it take to fit under-stairs storage?
How long fitting takes depends on how much storage you want under the stairs, and your quote sets out the fitting days. Because everything is made in our workshop, the work in your home is the fitting itself. We keep the hallway as clear as we can while we work.
Could the space under my stairs take a desk?
In many homes it’s possible, if the space is open to a room and tall enough at one end. We can build a desk with shelves and drawers to suit the space. New sockets or lights are for your electrician, and we leave a route for the cables.
Places near Covent Garden
Also in Covent Garden
Storage in Covent Garden homes: local notes
The biggest shares of homes in the neighbourhood around Covent Garden were built before 1919 (about 50%) and since 2000 (about 21%), in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. For carpentry, the era of a house is a useful clue to how square its rooms are and what its walls are made of. Near the centre of Covent Garden, Historic England’s list includes Royal Opera House (Grade I), under half a mile north, and Church of St Paul Covent Garden (Grade I), under half a mile south-west. Works inside a listed home that affect its character, for example removing original joinery or fixing into it, can require listed building consent from the council. The council’s conservation officer is the person to ask before work starts. Purpose-built flats are home to about 77% of households in the neighbourhood around Covent Garden, according to Census 2021. For a flat, under-stairs cupboards are made in sections sized for the stairs, the lift and the doors. Building management rules on lifts, deliveries and working hours are worth checking early.
Benjamin Franklin House, about 0.4 miles south, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. For a period home anywhere nearby, the space under the stairs may hold the meters or the fuse board, and the cupboards are planned around them. For an older house near Crown Court Church, the cupboard door under a period staircase can be kept or replaced to match the new storage. Close to Victoria Embankment Gardens? Living near green space often means muddy boots, bikes and outdoor kit, and under-stairs cupboards can give those things a place.
Covent Garden is about 1 mile west of City of Westminster, in the City of Westminster. Wherever you are in Covent Garden, it works the same way: a design visit, a quote in writing, furniture made at our workshop and fitting in your home. We cover places right across Westminster, large and small.
Here we cover the W1F, W1D and W1T postcode area for under-stairs storage. You’ll find streets here like Duck Lane, Drury Lane and New Square, and we cover homes on all of them for under-stairs storage. Main roads around Covent Garden include the A301 and A400, and we plan where the van can stop before fitting day. Neighbouring places we cover for under-stairs storage include Seven Dials (1 mile west), Aldwych (1 mile east), Adelphi (1 mile south), St Giles (1 mile north-west) and Clare Market (1 mile north-east). Across the rest of Westminster, our area takes in Victoria (2 miles south-west), Paddington Green (2 miles west), Paddington (2 miles west), Connaught Village (2 miles west), Belgravia (2 miles south-west) and Lisson Grove (2 miles north-west).
What’s near Covent Garden
In Covent Garden, that includes homes near Punch & Judy pub, Mercers' School and LSE Shaw Library, among other places. Covent Garden has its own railway station: London Charing Cross station. Other landmarks nearby include Savoy Hospital (a few minutes’ walk south-east) and London Museum and Institute of Natural History (close by, under half a mile east). For a walk, there’s St. James's Park Lake and Ludgate Hill.
Why bespoke in Covent Garden?
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. Ready-made units stop well short of a tall period ceiling, and that space collects dust instead of storage. Built-in pieces can run to the cornice or the picture rail.
There’s no price list, because every piece is designed for one room. We measure up, discuss the design and send a written quote, with the materials and finish set out. To arrange a design visit, message us from the contact page.
Why choose Bespoke Carpentry in Covent Garden
- Every quote follows a design visit
- Saturday visits and fitting by arrangement
- 300+ projects completed
- Scribed to uneven walls
See our comparison of bespoke and off-the-shelf and what to look for in a quote.
Materials and finishes
Moisture-resistant MDF
With wet shoes and coats coming in, a moisture-resistant grade of MDF is a sensible choice. It takes a spray-painted or hand-painted finish well, and it holds its shape in the space under the stairs.
Doors and drawer fronts
What you see of the storage is mostly the doors and drawer fronts. We make them plain or panelled, with handles to suit the room. Their tops follow the angle of the stairs.
From workshop to your room
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. How long fitting takes depends on how much storage you want under the stairs, and the fitting days are agreed in your quote. Terraced streets in London are often lined with parked cars, so it helps to tell us at the design visit what’s outside. Unloading is kept short, with sections taken straight inside. Saturday fitting can be arranged.
- You get in touch and let us know 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.
- A written quote follows, setting out the design, materials and finish.
- 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.
How to prepare
- Take down pictures, mirrors and shelves from the wall
- Point out meters, boilers and fuse boards near the furniture
- Clear the hallway and stairs so the sections can come through
Arranging a design visit
If you know what you want, say so; if you do not, that is fine, and we can work it out together. At the design visit, we measure up and talk the design through with you, and the written quote that follows sets it out. To arrange a visit, drop us a line using the contact form.
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When is bespoke worth it?
Off-the-shelf furniture can be a sensible choice. If the walls are straight and the space suits standard sizes, it often does the job, and it is quick to buy.
Where bespoke earns its keep is in rooms that aren’t square. In period homes, walls lean, floors slope and the alcoves on each side are often different widths.