Havering · London
Elm Park Under-Stairs Storage
For homes in Elm Park, we make under-stairs storage from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood. Each piece is finished by spray or by hand, in the colour you choose.
- A hallway crowded with coats and shoes
- Space under the stairs that’s hard to use
- An old cupboard door that does not suit the hall
Under-stairs storage for your home in Elm Park
About our under-stairs storage in Elm Park
No two staircases are quite the same. The soffit slopes, the stringer sets its own line, and floors are often a little out of level. We scribe the storage to the stairs and the walls, so it looks as though it has always been there. That’s something a standard unit cannot do, in Elm Park or anywhere else. If you are living with wanting a quiet corner for paperwork and nowhere to put coats, shoes and bags, that is what under-stairs cupboards are for, made from moisture-resistant MDF and strong birch plywood, with a painted finish.
Landings in houses from between the wars are often roomier than in a Victorian terrace, and that space can take shallow fitted storage. If yours is one of the interwar houses, semis or detached homes that make up much of the housing around Elm Park, it’s worth looking up as well as down. If a boiler or cylinder sits there, it keeps its clearances and access.
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. Our quote covers the carpentry: the design, the materials and the finish.
- Place
- Elm Park (RM12, RM13)
- Borough
- Havering
- Prices
- Quoted for your room
- First step
- Design visit, then a written quote
- Making
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Boards and paint
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- Working days
- Monday to Friday; Saturdays by arrangement
- Get in touch
- The contact form
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
Flat-pack or bespoke?
Cost matters, and it’s fair to say so: flat-pack is normally cheaper to buy. Bespoke makes more sense where the room is tricky, the space is valuable or you want the furniture to look built in.
A confident DIYer can manage simple shelves or a standard wardrobe in a square room. Sloping ceilings, uneven floors and lath-and-plaster walls make it harder, because scribing and the right fixings start to matter.
Your questions about under-stairs storage in Elm Park
Can you make under-stairs storage for a home in Elm Park?
Yes. We cover all of Havering and the rest of London, and Elm Park is part of that. The first step is a design visit, where we measure and go through the design, and then we send a quote.
Do you cover homes near Emerson Park station?
Yes. We cover all of Havering and the rest of London. To get started, you can fill in our short enquiry form with some details about the room.
What is under-stairs storage made from?
We use moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood. The doors and fronts are MDF, which is stable and paints well, while birch plywood gives strength to the drawers and carcasses. The finish is spray-painted or hand-painted.
What happens at the measuring visit?
It’s a chance to measure properly and talk through what you’d like. We also check the walls and floors and note radiators, sockets and other things in the way, and the written quote comes afterwards.
Do you move sockets or add lighting?
No. Any new wiring, sockets or lights need an electrician, and some electrical work in homes is covered by Part P of the Building Regulations. We plan the furniture around where they’ll go.
Should I send pictures?
Yes. Pictures help us understand the room before the design visit, along with rough sizes. Show anything the furniture has to work around, such as radiators or sockets.
Places near Elm Park
What else we make in Elm Park
Making use of tricky spaces in Elm Park
About 49% of the homes in the neighbourhood around Elm Park went up between 1919 and 1939, and about 25% between 1945 and 1972, on the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures for 2025. We take that into account during the design visit, since older and newer walls take different fixings. Strict stopping rules apply on red routes, which TfL runs. If your home in Elm Park is on or near a main road, tell us during the design visit. Then we can work out where to load and unload. Since the zone was extended to the outer boroughs in August 2023, the whole of London has been inside the ULEZ. So any van that delivers or fits furniture in Elm Park is covered by it. Access and parking are talked through at the design visit.
For a family home near Elm Park Primary School, a place for each person’s coat and shoes stops the hallway filling up. Rainham Hall, about 2.1 miles south, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. If your own home is a period one, the space under the stairs may hold the meters or the fuse board, and the cupboards are planned around them.
Elm Park is about 2 miles north of Romford, in the London Borough of Havering. We work across all London boroughs and the City of London, and Elm Park is part of that. Our work takes in places right across Havering.
We cover every part of RM12 and RM13 for under-stairs storage. Our area takes in homes on streets such as Park Lane, Wood Lane and Carfax Road, along with the roads around them, for under-stairs storage and any of our other fitted furniture. We also cover South Hornchurch (1 mile south-west), Rush Green (2 miles north-west), Dagenham (2 miles west), Romford (2 miles north) and Rainham (2 miles south). Across the rest of Havering, our area takes in Gallows Corner (3 miles north), Heath Park (2 miles north), Collier Row (3 miles north), Upminster (2 miles east), Ardleigh Green (3 miles north) and Emerson Park (2 miles north-east). Elm Park is one of the larger places we cover in Havering.
Landmarks near Elm Park
We fit furniture in homes around Abbs Cross Academy and Arts College, among other places. The closest station to Elm Park is Emerson Park station, roughly 1.7 miles north-east of the centre. A little further out are The Brewery (2 miles north-west) and St George's Hospital (0.9 miles east). For a walk, there is The Chase Nature Reserve.
How fitting day works
Every fitting follows the same order: we protect the floors, bring the sections in, set them level, scribe them to the walls, fix them and finish them. Then the room is tidied and we look over the work with you. How long fitting takes depends on the shape of the space and the number of drawers and doors, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. Loft stairs in an interwar house can be tight, with a low ceiling at the top, so pieces for a loft room are sized for the narrowest point. Elsewhere in the house, the route is usually more generous. Each section is assembled and fixed in the room.
- You contact us about the space under your stairs.
- We visit to measure the space at several points along the slope, as stairs and walls are rarely square in older houses.
- Your written quote sets out the design, materials and finish.
- The drawers, doors and carcasses are made at our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, cut to the angle of the stairs.
- On fitting day the units are set level and scribed to follow the stairs and walls.
Before we arrive
- Check the building’s rules for trades and lift bookings
- Have your electrician move any sockets or switches beforehand
- Clear the walls of pictures and shelves
Starting with a design visit
Photos help us understand the room before we visit. A few pictures showing the walls, the corners and where the ceiling meets them tell us a lot about the space, along with rough measurements. To share them, fill in our short enquiry form, and we will suggest a time for a design visit.
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The problems under-stairs storage solve
After a hallway is redecorated, an old, tired cupboard under the stairs can stand out. Storage made for the space and painted to suit the hall finishes the job. Decorating is for your decorator, so it is useful to tell us your plans early.
Here’s what under-stairs storage can help with:
- Needing a compact spot for a laptop
- A low corner too deep to reach into
- Space under the stairs that’s hard to use
- Struggling to reach the gas or electricity meter
If your home is one of the older houses near St Nicholas Church, under-stairs cupboards are scribed to walls and stair strings that are rarely straight.
Choosing a carpenter
- Which parts of the job need an electrician or a plumber
- Do they scribe the furniture to the walls?
- A quote in writing that sets out the job
- How the furniture will be finished, and where
Boards, parts and paint
Doors and drawer fronts
Doors and drawer fronts are made from moisture-resistant MDF and painted to your colour. Their edges are cut to follow the angle of the stairs, keeping the lines neat.
Moisture-resistant MDF
Hallways see wet coats, shoes and umbrellas, so a moisture-resistant grade makes sense. It gives the painted fronts a smooth base, and stays stable once it is fitted.
What it costs
The price for your room depends on:
- Where a van can park, like a permit bay or a bay suspension
- How many doors and drawers there are
- Whether you choose a spray or hand-painted finish
- The internal fittings
Access to the room makes a difference too. Several flights of stairs, a small lift or a narrow hall can mean smaller sections and more carrying, which the quote allows for. We quote each job for the room it’s going into, after the design visit.
Before the design visit
The more you can tell us at the start, the better the design visit goes. When you get in touch, it’s useful to send:
- What the furniture needs to hold
- Pictures showing the full wall, from floor to ceiling
- Any ideas or images you have saved
- Whether it is a house or a flat, and if there are stairs or a lift
To make a start, send us a few details through our contact form and tell us a little about the room. From there, we arrange a design visit to measure up and talk through your ideas, and send you a written quote afterwards.