Bexley · London
Under-Stairs Storage in East Wickham
Pull-out drawers, cupboards and coat storage under the stairs, for homes in East Wickham. We measure, design and quote first, then make it in our workshop and fit it.
- A vacuum cleaner that has nowhere to go
- Stairs open to a room, with clutter on show
- An old cupboard door that doesn’t suit the hall
Under-stairs storage designed for your room
Your questions about under-stairs storage in East Wickham
Will parking be an issue for fitting furniture in East Wickham?
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.
Does a conservation area in or near East Wickham affect fitted furniture?
Usually not: conservation area rules mainly cover the outside of buildings, and fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission. If your home is listed, works inside that affect its character can need listed building consent, so check with the council first. If you’re unsure, the council can confirm.
How long will the fitting take?
How long the fitting takes depends on how much storage you want under the stairs, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. We make every part in our workshop, so the time at your home is spent fitting. Saturday fitting is possible by arrangement.
Where is the furniture made?
Everything is made at our workshop for your room, then fitted in your home. We use moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
Can you add sockets inside the units?
No. Sockets, switches and lighting are for your electrician. We’ll design around them.
Do you cover East Wickham?
Yes. Our area is the whole of London: every borough and the City of London, and that includes East Wickham.
Under-stairs storage in East Wickham: what you get
When the hall is tight, the space under the stairs is often the only place left for coats, shoes and bags. A hanging section, shoe drawers and a shelf for keys keep everything off the floor. Painted in a colour you choose, it reads as part of the house rather than a piece of furniture. For a home in East Wickham, it can make the front door feel far calmer. We make under-stairs cupboards from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, spray-painted or hand-painted, and the things people most often want solved are stairs open to a room, with clutter on show and cleaning things with no proper home.
A good part of the housing around East Wickham is interwar, semi-detached or detached. If yours is a 1920s or 1930s house, the bay window at the front, the space under the stairs and the box room are the usual places to gain storage. Any meters or fuse boards that need to stay reachable are designed around.
The written quote is your record of the job. It describes the under-stairs cupboard we’ve designed for the room, its materials and its finish, and it’s what the workshop builds to.
- Location
- East Wickham (DA16, SE18, SE2)
- Area
- Bexley
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Made
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Boards and paint
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- Working days
- Weekdays (Saturdays if arranged)
- Contact
- Send us a message
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
When is bespoke worth it?
Where bespoke earns its keep is in rooms that are not square. Older London rooms tend to have leaning walls, sloping floors and alcoves of different widths.
Off-the-shelf cupboards come in fixed sizes, so there’s normally a gap left over at the top or at one end. Fitted furniture is made to the room’s measurements, so it can run to the ceiling and fill the width.
When you need someone else
We don’t treat damp or carry out building work, so these points are worth knowing:
- Reshaping or rebuilding the staircase
- Any wiring or new lights, which need an electrician
- Relocating meters, which your energy supplier deals with
If you’re not sure what’s possible in your room, you can fill in our short enquiry form and we’ll give you a straight answer. How a job runs, step by step.
What it’s made from
- Pull-out drawers
- Coat hooks and shoe shelves
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Hand-painted finish
- Spray-painted finish
- Birch plywood
Storage in East Wickham homes: local notes
In the area around East Wickham, the largest groups of homes date from between 1919 and 1939 (about 57%) and between 1945 and 1972 (about 16%), on the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures for 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. A conservation area lies within about a quarter of a mile of the centre of East Wickham, according to Historic England’s records. Planning controls in conservation areas are mainly concerned with the outside of buildings, so fitting furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need permission. Your council can advise if you’re unsure. Parking controls in London are set borough by borough, so Bexley has its own. Depending on your street in East Wickham, a visitor permit, a paid bay or a council bay suspension may be needed. We ask about parking at the design visit, so we can plan the day around it.
Close to Shoulder of Mutton Green? Under-stairs cupboards can be designed to hold outdoor kit, from walking boots to picnic things. For a flat near Welling station, check any building rules on lifts and working hours early, and the sections will be sized for the way in.
East Wickham is about 3 miles south of Sidcup, part of the London Borough of Bexley. We work across all London boroughs and the City of London, and East Wickham is part of that. In Bexley, East Wickham is one of the places we cover, and the borough has 27 places on our list.
Here we cover the DA16, SE18 and SE2 postcode area for under-stairs storage. You’ll find streets here like Keats Road, Darwin Road and Edison Road, and homes on each of them are within our area for under-stairs storage. We also cover Falconwood (1 mile south), Shooter's Hill (1 mile west), Blackfen (1 mile south), Plumstead (1 mile north-west) and Avery Hill (1 mile south-west). Across the rest of Bexley, our area takes in Sidcup (3 miles south), Erith (3 miles east), Bexley (2 miles south-east), Belvedere (3 miles north-east), Northumberland Heath (3 miles east) and Lessness Heath (3 miles north-east).
Near you in East Wickham
Our area takes in the homes around Welling School, Tesco pub and Shooters Hill Sixth Form College and the streets around them. East Wickham has its own railway station: Welling station. Well-known places in the area include Greenwich Borough Museum (1.2 miles north) and Memorial Hospital (1.3 miles west).
Neighbourhoods near East Wickham
What else we make in East Wickham
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, which keeps the lines straight. Only then is it fixed to the wall, with fixings chosen to suit brick, lath and plaster or plasterboard. On fitting day, the sections are carried in, assembled, scribed to the wall and levelled. Hand-painted furniture can be finished on site; spray-painted pieces arrive finished from the workshop. Saturdays can be arranged.
- It starts with some details from you about the space.
- We come to measure and go through the design.
- We send a written quote covering the design, materials and finish.
- The storage is made at our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- The storage is fitted and finished, and we check each pull-out with you before we leave.
- Treat the fresh paintwork gently while it cures; a hand-painted finish is easy to touch up later.
Preparing the room
- Move anything in the hall or on the stairs out of the way
- Take down pictures, mirrors and shelves from the wall
- Keep pets out of the room and the hallway
How to get a quote
To make a start, get in touch through our contact form and let us know which room you have in mind. From there, we arrange a design visit to measure up and talk through your ideas, and send you a quote in writing afterwards.
Related advice
Is it time for under-stairs storage?
In a smaller home, every bit of space counts. A well-designed under-stairs cupboard can take the coats, shoes, cleaning things and bags that would otherwise crowd the hall. It also takes pressure off the other cupboards in the house.
Here’s what under-stairs storage can help with:
- No room for a small desk or a place to work
- A meter or fuse board buried behind clutter
- Space under the stairs that’s hard to use
- A low corner too deep to reach into
If you live in a period home close to St Mary the Virgin, pull-out drawers can reach right to the back of a deep under-stairs space.
Before you choose who makes it
- Will the quote be in writing?
- How parking will work on your street
- Whether they can show you real projects they’ve done
- How they’ll get the furniture into the room
Flats, blocks and rented homes
In a flat, the route in matters as much as the room. At the design visit, we measure the stairs, the landings, any lift and the doors, so each section is sized to get through.
Mansion blocks and purpose-built blocks often have house rules about lifts, entry systems and when trades can come in. Let us know about them during the design visit, and we’ll plan the fitting around them.