Enfield · London
Gordon Hill Under-Stairs Storage
For homes in Gordon Hill, 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.
- Needing a compact spot for a laptop
- 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
Questions we’re often asked
Can you make under-stairs storage for a home in Gordon Hill?
Yes. Gordon Hill is one of the places we work, along with the rest of Enfield and London. You can tell us about the room on our contact form to arrange a design visit.
Will parking be an issue for fitting furniture in Gordon Hill?
It can be, depending on whether your street is in a controlled parking zone. A van may need a visitor’s permit, a paid parking bay or a bay suspension, which the council arranges, often with notice. It helps to let us know about parking at the design visit, and we’ll plan around it.
What happens during the design visit?
We measure the space and discuss the design, materials and finish. We look at the walls, floors and anything the furniture has to work around, then send a written quote.
Can you add sockets inside the units?
No. Electrical work is not something we do; it’s a job for your electrician. We can allow for cable routes in the design, and any new sockets are best done before fitting day.
Can you match the storage to my hallway?
Yes. We paint the storage in the colour you choose, by spray or by hand. You can match it to the walls, the banisters or the skirting, so it looks like part of the house.
Which works best under the stairs, drawers or cupboards?
Often a mix works best. Deep pull-out drawers suit the shallow end under the bottom steps, while a cupboard at the tall end takes coats, the vacuum or an ironing board. We talk it through at the design visit.
Under-stairs storage in Gordon Hill
Every staircase has its own shape. 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. It is the part of the job a boxed unit simply cannot manage. We make under-stairs cupboards from moisture-resistant MDF and strong birch plywood, with a painted finish, and the things people most often want solved are a low corner too deep to reach into and stairs open to a room, with clutter on show.
Many homes around Gordon Hill date from the post-war decades. Post-war homes usually have squarer rooms and fewer nooks than period ones, which means under-stairs cupboards can add storage that was never built in. The fixings are chosen for the wall, whether it’s concrete, blockwork or brick.
We write quotes in plain English. They say what will be made, what it’s made from and how it will be finished, all taken from the design visit.
- Place
- Gordon Hill (EN2, EN1)
- Borough
- Enfield
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Where it’s made
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Materials and finish
- MDF and birch plywood, painted
- Fitting days
- Weekdays, and Saturdays by arrangement
- Enquiries
- The contact form
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Pricing under-stairs storage in Gordon Hill
We quote each job after the design visit, because no two rooms are the same. These are the things that affect it:
- Walls and floors that are out of level or out of square
- The overall size of the piece
- Stairs, lifts and the route to the room
- The finish: spray painted or hand painted
Tricky rooms take more time: uneven walls, sloping floors and angled ceilings all add scribing and cutting on site. The quote allows for it, written once we’ve measured up.
Getting in touch
What helps most when you first contact us:
- Any ideas or images you have saved
- Anything fixed to the wall that the furniture needs to work around
- Where you live, with the postcode
- Approximate measurements of the space
The quote is built from the design visit. We measure the room properly, check how the walls and floors run and talk through the design with you. A quote in writing follows the visit. To arrange the visit, drop us a line using the contact form.
How fitting day works
With the carcasses fixed and level, any doors go on and any drawers or lids are fitted. Each one is adjusted until the gaps are even and it closes cleanly. The time the fitting takes depends on the size of the space and the design, and your quote sets out the fitting days. Post-war houses tend to have simple halls and stairs, so carrying in is rarely difficult. Even so, the route is measured at the measuring visit. On the day, sections are joined, levelled and fixed.
- You let us know about the stairs and what you’d like to store.
- At the design visit, the space is measured and any meters are noted, because they must stay accessible.
- We talk through drawers, cupboards and coat storage, and send a written quote, with the finish set out.
- The storage is made in our workshop and painted in your colour. We use moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- The storage is fitted, scribed to the stairs and checked with you. The way to any meters is left clear.
Before fitting day
- Book any lift and let the concierge or building manager know
- Let us know about parking near your home
- Take anything hanging off the wall we are fitting to
How to get a quote
It’s 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, particularly with rough sizes. To send them over, get in touch through our contact form, and we will suggest a time for a design visit.
Advice
Storage in Gordon Hill homes: local notes
The biggest shares of homes in the area around Gordon Hill were built between 1945 and 1972 (about 30%) and before 1919 (about 25%), based on the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax data. That matters for under-stairs cupboards, as the build era decides whether a wall is solid brick, lath and plaster, block or plasterboard. There are 22 entries on the National Heritage List within half a mile of the centre of Gordon Hill. Original fireplaces, shutters and panelling are worth keeping where they survive, and the furniture can be designed around them rather than over them. Red routes are run by TfL, with tight limits on where and when vehicles can stop. If your home is on or just off a main road, it helps to mention it. It lets us plan the stop before fitting day.
If you live in a flat close to Gordon Hill station, check any building rules on lifts and working hours early, and the sections will be sized for the way in. For a family home near St Michael's CofE Primary School, a place for each person’s coat and shoes stops the hallway filling up.
Gordon Hill is about 3 miles south of Edmonton, part of the London Borough of Enfield. Whether your home in Gordon Hill is a terraced house, a flat or a newer build, we measure the room as it is and design around it. Gordon Hill is one of the places in Enfield where we make under-stairs storage, and the borough has 26 places on our list.
Design visits and fitting in EN2 and EN1 work the same way as everywhere else we cover. Our area takes in homes on streets like Lea Road, Farr Road and Manor Road, along with the roads around them, whether you want under-stairs storage or another piece made for the room. If you are just outside Gordon Hill, we also cover Clay Hill (1 mile north), Enfield Chase (1 mile south-west), Forty Hill (1 mile east), Enfield (1 mile south) and Crews Hill (1 mile north-west). Other parts of Enfield we cover include Edmonton (3 miles south), Palmers Green (3 miles south), New Southgate (4 miles south-west), Bush Hill Park (2 miles south), Upper Edmonton (4 miles south) and Oakthorpe Park (4 miles south).
Near you in Gordon Hill
Our area takes in the homes around The Wonder pub, Russet House School and Chace Community School. Gordon Hill has its own railway station: Gordon Hill station. Well-known places in the area include St Michaels Hospital (less than half a mile south-east) and Museum of Enfield (1 mile south).
Also near Gordon Hill
What else we make in Gordon Hill
Why people ask for under-stairs storage in Gordon Hill
Most people get in touch because the space has become a dumping ground. Under the stairs is easy to fill and hard to sort, with things pushed to the back and lost in the dark. Well-planned drawers and shelves give each thing a home, so you can find what you need without emptying the cupboard.
A few of the things people ask us to solve are these:
- Open space under the stairs that collects clutter
- Space under the stairs that’s hard to use
- An old cupboard door that does not suit the hall
- Needing a compact spot for a laptop
If your home is as old as some of the listed buildings nearby, such as St Faith's Cottage, original features like shutters, panelling and fireplaces are worth designing around. For a listed home, fixing into original features may need listed building consent.
Before you choose who makes it
- How they’ll get the furniture into the room
- Do they scribe the furniture to the walls?
- Whether you will get a written quote, not just a figure
- Can you see real work of theirs?
Bespoke or off-the-shelf?
Off-the-shelf storage comes in the colours the maker offers. Bespoke storage can be painted in the colour you choose, by spray or by hand, so it can sit with the walls, the banisters or the skirting. Post-war rooms are often compact, and standard furniture sizes waste space at the ends and the top, which fitted furniture uses. Every width is made for the room.
What goes inside matters as much as the outside: drawers take more making than shelves, and each rail, divider or pull-out adds to the work. At the design visit, we work out what you need inside, then set it out in the quote.
Why work with us in Gordon Hill
- A design visit, then a quote in writing
- Scribed to uneven walls
- Made in moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood
- Every London borough and the City of London covered
Read our comparison of bespoke and off-the-shelf and how to compare quotes.
Tips worth knowing
Fitted furniture is part of the room, so it is worth looking after. A few pointers help:
- Find out what sits in the space now, from meters to pipes
- Let us know about parking during the design visit
- Clear the space before the design visit if you can
- Think about handles and how the fronts will look from the hall
Heavy items are best kept in the lower drawers. It helps the runners and keeps the storage working well. Shelves are made for the things you told us about at the design visit, so it’s worth keeping to that plan.
Closing drawers fully helps keep the runners and fronts in good order. A quick sort every so often stops drawers getting too heavy. Wipe up any spills, especially near the floor, before they dry.