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Under-Stairs Storage in Cricklewood
Pull-out drawers, cupboards and coat storage under the stairs, designed for your room in Cricklewood. After a design visit and a quote in writing, it’s made at our workshop and fitted in your home.
- A staircase with untidy space beneath it
- A low corner too deep to reach into
- Space under the stairs that is hard to use
Under-stairs storage in Cricklewood
Your questions about under-stairs storage in Cricklewood
Will parking be an issue for fitting furniture in Cricklewood?
It can be, depending on whether your street is in a controlled parking zone. A van may need a visitor permit, a pay-and-display bay or a suspended bay, which the council arranges, often with notice. Let us know what parking is near you during the design visit, so the day can be planned around it.
My home in Cricklewood is a period house with walls that are not straight. Is that a problem?
Yes. Walls in older houses are rarely flat or square, and floors are often out of level, so each piece is scribed to follow the wall and set level on a plinth or adjustable feet. We also work around skirting boards, picture rails and cornices. Fixings are chosen for the wall, whether solid brick or lath and plaster.
What if the wall is cold or damp?
It can be done with some care: ventilation behind and inside the furniture helps avoid condensation and mould. We do not treat damp, so any damp should be sorted before fitting day.
Will you travel outside London?
No. We work in London and nowhere else.
What does an under-stairs cupboard cost?
Your quote is written for your room once we’ve visited and measured. The size of the space, the number of drawers and doors, and the finish all shape the price. To get a quote, use our contact form and we’ll arrange a design visit.
Does someone need to be home during the fitting?
Someone needs to be there to let us in. You don’t need to watch us work, but it’s useful to be around at the end.
Under-stairs storage for homes in Cricklewood
We make each under-stairs cupboard in our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood. Birch plywood is strong and holds screws well, which suits drawer boxes that carry weight, while MDF takes paint well for the doors and fronts. The finish is sprayed or hand-painted, and then the storage is fitted in your home in Cricklewood. We make under-stairs cupboards from MDF made to resist moisture and birch plywood, then spray-painted or hand-painted, and people most often get in touch about a fuse board that’s hard to get to and stairs open to a room, with clutter on show.
In streets where many homes were built before 1919, as they were around Cricklewood, the space under the stairs in a terraced house often holds the gas meter, the electricity meter or the fuse board. Meter readers and engineers need to get to them, so the design keeps them accessible. Bays and sash windows in period houses are natural spots for a window seat.
Everything we agree at the measuring visit goes into the written quote: the layout and internal fittings, the materials and the finish. If something is not quite right, tell us before anything is made.
- Place
- Cricklewood (NW2, NW6, NW10)
- Borough
- Brent
- Prices
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Making
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Materials and finish
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Working days
- Weekdays, and Saturdays by arrangement
- Get in touch
- Send us a message
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
Materials and finishes
Birch plywood
Birch plywood is made in layers, which makes it strong and stable. It goes into the carcasses, the shelves and the drawer boxes, and its edge can be left visible or painted to match.
Moisture-resistant MDF
Hallways see wet coats, shoes and umbrellas, so a moisture-resistant grade makes sense. It takes a spray-painted or hand-painted finish well, and stays stable once it’s fitted.
How we price under-stairs storage
The price for your room depends on:
- Parking near your home
- The width and height of the space
- The number of doors and drawers
- What goes inside: rails, shelves, drawers and dividers
How it’s painted is part of the price: spray painting is done in the workshop, while hand painting can be done on site. Your choice, along with the size and the fittings, is reflected in the written quote.
Before the design visit
You don’t need exact measurements or a plan. It’s enough to send:
- Rough measurements, even if they’re only to the nearest few centimetres
- A few photos of the space, taken from the doorway and from each corner
- How you want to use the space
- What kind of home it is, and which floor the room is on
It is useful to see the room before we come. A few pictures showing the walls, the corners and where the ceiling meets them tell us a lot about the space. To send them over, use our contact form, and we will arrange a design visit.
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What else we make in Cricklewood
Storage in Cricklewood homes: local notes
Homes built before 1919 make up about 63% of the housing in the streets around Cricklewood, with about 12% built between 1919 and 1939, according to Valuation Office Agency council tax figures (2025). For carpentry, the era of a house is a useful clue to how square its rooms are and what its walls are made of. There are 6 entries on the National Heritage List within half a mile of the centre of Cricklewood. Being near listed buildings does not make a home listed, and you can check any address on Historic England’s list. TfL’s Ultra Low Emission Zone covers every part of London, Brent included. So any van that delivers or fits furniture in Cricklewood is covered by it. How the van gets to your door is planned at the measuring visit.
If your home is one of the older houses near St Gabriel's Church, the space under the stairs may hold the meters or the fuse board, and the cupboards are planned around them. If you live near Gladstone Park, living near green space often means muddy boots, bikes and outdoor kit, and under-stairs cupboards can give those things a place.
Cricklewood is about 1 mile south-east of Kilburn, in the London Borough of Brent. We work across all London boroughs and the City of London, and Cricklewood is part of that. Our work takes in places right across Brent.
We cover every part of NW2, NW6 and NW10. We cover homes on streets such as Ivy Road, Walm Lane and Dean Road, whether you want under-stairs storage or another piece made for the room. Cricklewood sits close to the A407, and we plan where the van can stop before fitting day. We also cover the places around Cricklewood: Brondesbury (1 mile south-east), Willesden (1 mile south-west), Dollis Hill (1 mile north-west), Willesden Green (1 mile south-west) and Neasden (1 mile west). Elsewhere in Brent, we also cover Harlesden (2 miles south-west), Wembley (3 miles west), Queen's Park (2 miles south-east), Kenton (4 miles north-west), Church End (2 miles south-west) and Kensal Rise (2 miles south).
Near you in Cricklewood
Our area takes in the homes around Hampstead School, Brondesbury College and The Crown Public House. There is a railway station in Cricklewood itself: Cricklewood station. Well-known places in the area include St Andrew's Hospital (0.8 miles north-west) and Brent Museum and Archives (0.7 miles south-west). Open spaces near Cricklewood include Westbere Copse.
Bespoke under-stairs storage or ready-made?
Flat-pack furniture is designed to be easy to carry home and quick to assemble. Bespoke storage is designed for one space and built to suit it, with birch plywood drawer boxes that hold screws well and carry weight. Which suits you depends on how much you want from the space. 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.
In London, parking can affect the price. Much of London is covered by controlled parking zones, so a van may need a visitor permit, a paid bay or a bay suspension. It helps to talk about parking during the design visit.
Why choose Bespoke Carpentry in Cricklewood
- Over 300 projects completed
- Saturdays by arrangement
- We work across all London boroughs
- Finished by spray or by hand
Take a look at how bespoke compares with ready-made or what to look for in a quote.
What happens on fitting day
When the fitting is done, we tidy the room. Before we go, we look over the finished furniture with you. The time the fitting takes depends on the shape of the space and the number of drawers and doors, and the fitting days are agreed in your quote. Hallways in period houses are often narrow, and the stairs turn sharply, so the furniture comes in sections sized for the route in. Floors and stair carpets are protected on the way in and out, and the sections are joined and scribed in the room.
- You get in touch with a few details and, if you like, a sketch. It helps to say whether the meters are under there.
- At the design visit, we look at the stairs, the hall and what you need to store, and check where the meters and fuse board sit.
- A written quote follows, with the fitting days agreed.
- Your storage is built in our workshop, cut to the angle of your stairs.
- The storage is fitted and set level, ready for the first coats and shoes, with the finish sprayed beforehand or painted by hand on site.
Before fitting day
- Point out meters, boilers and fuse boards near the furniture
- Take down pictures, mirrors and shelves from the wall
- Let us know about parking near your home
Starting with a design visit
Your quote is written for your room once we’ve visited and measured. Each room is different, so we quote after seeing it, when we have measured up and talked through the design. To arrange a visit, drop us a line using the contact form.
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The problems under-stairs storage solve
People who have just moved in, or have just finished a hallway, often want the space under the stairs to match. New storage, painted in a colour chosen for the hall, can tie it together. If decorating is planned, it is worth mentioning during the design visit so the work can be timed sensibly.
Here’s what under-stairs storage can help with:
- No room for a small desk or a place to work
- Space under the stairs that’s hard to use
- An old cupboard door that doesn’t suit the hall
- A hallway crowded with coats and shoes
For a flat near Cricklewood station, each piece is planned so it can be carried up and joined together in the room.
Before you choose who makes it
- Can you see real work of theirs?
- How the furniture will be finished, and where
- Which parts of the job need an electrician or a plumber
- How they’ll get the furniture into the room