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Under-Stairs Storage in De Beauvoir Town
For homes in De Beauvoir Town, we make under-stairs storage from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood. The finish is spray painted or hand painted, in a colour agreed with you.
- Space under the stairs that’s hard to use
- Needing a compact spot for a laptop
- A tired under-stairs cupboard that stands out
Need under-stairs storage in De Beauvoir Town?
Looking after your furniture
Fresh paintwork takes a while to cure fully, so treat it gently at first. Beyond that, these tips help:
- Think about handles and how the fronts will look from the hall
- Make room so the whole space can be measured
- Let us know about parking at the design visit
- Measure your vacuum cleaner and ironing board
If the hallway is being decorated afterwards, ask your decorator to protect the fronts. Masking tape can lift fresh paint, so it shouldn’t go on the new finish. Should you have a question about the storage, tell us about the room on our contact form and we’ll help.
Every so often, look at the handles and hinges. Tightening a screw early stops a small looseness becoming a problem. If a door drops or a drawer starts to catch, use our contact form and let us know what’s happening.
Under-stairs storage in De Beauvoir Town
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. It is the part of the job a boxed unit simply cannot manage. If you’re living with a meter or fuse board buried behind clutter and an old cupboard door that doesn’t suit the hall, that is what under-stairs cupboards are for, made from MDF made to resist moisture and birch plywood, then spray-painted or hand-painted.
Most households around De Beauvoir Town live in purpose-built flats, and in a flat, the hall, the recesses and the windows are where extra storage normally goes. Each piece is built in sections sized for the route into the flat. Boilers and fuse boards in a hall cupboard keep the access and ventilation they need.
The written quote puts the design visit in writing: the layout, what goes inside, the materials used and the finish. If you’d like to change anything, it’s easier before the furniture is made.
- Where
- De Beauvoir Town (N1, E8, N16)
- Area
- Hackney
- Prices
- Quoted for your room
- First step
- Design visit, then a quote in writing
- Made
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Boards and paint
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- When we fit
- Weekdays (Saturdays if arranged)
- Get in touch
- Send us a message
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Honest limits
Electrics, plumbing, gas, plastering and structural work are not part of what we do. Please bear these in mind too:
- Any work on gas pipes or appliances
- Making good the walls and ceiling, which is for a plasterer or decorator
- Electrical work under the stairs, which your electrician carries out
If you’re not sure what’s possible in your room, you can send us a few details through our contact form and we will give you a straight answer before you arrange a visit. Our process from visit to fitting.
Boards, parts and finishes
- Coat hooks and shoe shelves
- Spray-painted finish
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Pull-out drawers
- Birch plywood
- Hand-painted finish
What it costs
When we put a quote together, we consider:
- How big the furniture is
- The number of doors and drawers
- How easy it is to get the furniture into the room
- Parking near your home
Tricky rooms take more time: walls that lean, floors that slope and sloping ceilings all mean more scribing and cutting. That is reflected in the quote, which we write after seeing the room.
Before the design visit
To give us a picture of the room, it helps to include:
- Anything in the way, such as radiators, sockets, switches, a boiler or meters
- Examples of the look you’re after
- What the furniture needs to hold
- The type of home and how the room is reached
A quote begins with a few details from you: which room it is, rough sizes and a couple of photos if you can take them. To send them, fill in our short enquiry form. We’ll then arrange a design visit and follow it with a written quote.
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Common questions about under-stairs storage
Can parking be tricky on fitting day in De Beauvoir Town?
It can be, as controlled parking zones cover much of inner London. A van may need a visitor permit, a paid bay or a parking bay suspension, which the council arranges, often with notice. It is useful to tell us about parking at the design visit, and we’ll plan around it.
How do you fit under-stairs storage in a flat in De Beauvoir Town?
We measure the route in along with the room itself: the stairs, landings, lift and doors. The furniture is made in sections that fit the stairs and lift, and put together in the room. If your building has rules on lift booking or working hours, or your lease needs consent for alterations, it is worth checking those early.
How is the price worked out?
Size, doors and drawers, what goes inside and the finish all affect it, along with access and parking. The price comes in a written quote after the design visit.
Do I need planning permission for fitted furniture?
Not normally. Conservation area controls are mainly about the outside of buildings, and fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission. Listed buildings are different: check with the council’s conservation officer first.
Who chooses the colour?
You choose it, and we agree it with you before the furniture is finished. Spray and hand-painted finishes both use the colour you’ve chosen.
Does someone need to be home during the fitting?
We need access, so someone has to let us in. You don’t need to watch us work, though we like to go over the furniture with you at the end.
What happens on fitting day
If anything comes up on the day, just ask. The design, materials and finish were settled before anything was made, so the day itself is about careful fitting. How long fitting takes depends on how much storage you want under the stairs, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. Sections come into the flat in the order they’re fitted, so the flat does not fill up. Floors are covered and dust is kept down. The fixings suit each wall, whether solid or stud.
- First we hear what’s under your stairs now and what you need.
- We measure the space, the slope and the floor, and note any meters or fuse boards.
- We talk through drawers, cupboards and coat storage, and send a written quote, with the finish set out.
- Every part is built in our workshop, ready for a spray-painted or hand-painted finish.
- We fit it in your home and check every drawer and door with you. The way to any meters is left clear.
Preparing the room
- Get any new sockets or wiring done by your electrician before fitting day
- Clear the hallway and stairs so the sections can come through
- Let us know about parking near your home
Arranging a design visit
It helps to see the room before we come. Pictures of the whole wall, the corners and the ceiling line give us a good feel for the space, along with rough measurements. To share them, get in touch through our contact form, and we’ll arrange a design visit.
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Under-stairs storage for homes in De Beauvoir Town
About 39% of the homes in the neighbourhood around De Beauvoir Town went up before 1919, and about 25% since 2000, in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. The age of a home tells us a lot about its walls, floors and ceilings, and so about how under-stairs cupboards are fixed and fitted. Within a mile of the centre of De Beauvoir Town, 15 conservation areas are recorded by Historic England. Historic England says England has around 10,000, and the controls mainly cover the outside of buildings, so fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission. The ULEZ (Ultra Low Emission Zone) now covers the whole of London, Hackney included. It applies to the vans that deliver and fit furniture in De Beauvoir Town, as it does anywhere else in London. Parking and access are planned during the design visit.
If you live in a flat close to Dalston Junction station, each piece is planned so it can be carried up and joined together in the room. If you live near Shoreditch Park, living near green space often means muddy boots, bikes and outdoor kit, and under-stairs cupboards can give those things a place. If your home is as old as some of the listed buildings nearby, such as St Paul's Church, original features like shutters, panelling and fireplaces are worth designing around. For a listed home, fixing into original features can require listed building consent.
De Beauvoir Town is within the London Borough of Hackney, about 1 mile south of Shoreditch. Wherever you are in De Beauvoir Town, the process is the same: we visit and measure, send a quote in writing, make the furniture in our workshop and fit it. De Beauvoir Town is one of 20 places on our list for Hackney.
Here we cover the N1, E8 and N16 postcode area for under-stairs storage. Whether you live on a street like Dove Road, Essex Road and Clare Lane or on one nearby, we can arrange a design visit for under-stairs storage. If you are just outside De Beauvoir Town, we also cover Kingsland (1 mile north-east), Canonbury (1 mile west), Mildmay (1 mile north), Dalston (1 mile east) and Newington Green (1 mile north). Across the rest of Hackney, our area takes in Homerton (2 miles east), Lower Clapton (2 miles east), Stamford Hill (2 miles north), Upper Clapton (2 miles north-east), Manor House (2 miles north) and Lea Bridge (2 miles north-east).
Near you in De Beauvoir Town
We fit furniture in homes around The Prince of Wales pub, Kingsland Secondary School and Bishopsgate Institute Special Collections and Archives and the streets around them. There’s a railway station in De Beauvoir Town itself: Dalston Junction station. Other landmarks nearby include Hackney Walk (1.3 miles east) and Clowns Gallery-Museum (within half a mile east). Open spaces near De Beauvoir Town include Barnsbury Wood.
Bespoke under-stairs storage or ready-made?
Ready-made units are designed for shipping and quick assembly. Bespoke storage is designed for one space and built to suit it, using birch plywood for strong drawer boxes and moisture-resistant MDF for painted fronts. Which suits you depends on how much you want from the space. Ready-made units can’t follow the boxing and risers found in many flats, so it ends up with gaps or blocks access. Built-in pieces are designed around them, with access kept.
Getting to the room affects the job as well. Several flights of stairs, a small lift or a narrow hall can mean smaller sections and more carrying, which the quote allows for. The price comes in a written quote, worked out from the measurements and the design you choose.
Why choose Bespoke Carpentry in De Beauvoir Town
- Saturday work by arrangement
- Edges scribed to follow your walls
- More than 300 projects completed
- We visit, measure and discuss the design before we quote
Take a look at our comparison of bespoke and off-the-shelf or how to compare quotes.