Richmond upon Thames · London
Under-Stairs Storage in Hampton
Under-stairs storage in Hampton: pull-out drawers, cupboards and coat storage under the stairs. Each piece is designed at a visit to your home, made at our workshop and fitted by us.
- Nowhere to put coats, shoes and bags
- Storage that does not match the hallway
- Struggling to reach the gas or electricity meter
Under-stairs storage in Hampton
Boards, parts and paint
Hand-painted finish
Hand painting gives a slightly softer look than spraying. It can be applied on site, in a colour agreed with you. If it is ever chipped, it can be touched up.
Birch plywood
Birch plywood is made in layers, which makes it strong and stable. We use it for carcasses, shelves and drawer boxes, with the edge either shown or painted.
How we make under-stairs storage for Hampton
Under-stairs cupboards often hold a gas meter, an electricity meter or the fuse board. These must stay easy to reach for meter readers and engineers. We plan the storage around them, normally with a door that leaves them in clear reach, so the space works hard without hiding anything that matters. If you are not sure what’s under your stairs in Hampton, we will look when we visit. If your home has an under-stairs cupboard full of clutter and stairs open to a room, with clutter on show, under-stairs cupboards made from MDF made to resist moisture and birch plywood, then spray-painted or hand-painted can solve it.
Landings in houses from between the wars are often roomier than in a Victorian terrace, and that space can take shallow fitted storage. Around Hampton, where interwar homes and semis are a big part of the housing, the landing is worth a look as well as the hall. If a boiler or cylinder sits there, it keeps its clearances and access.
You get the quote in writing, so you can read it at your own pace and talk it over at home. It covers the design, materials and finish agreed at the visit.
- Location
- Hampton (TW12, TW11)
- Borough
- Richmond upon Thames
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- Design visit, then a quote in writing
- Where it is made
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Boards and paint
- MDF and birch plywood, painted
- Fitting days
- Weekdays (Saturdays if arranged)
- Enquiries
- The contact form
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
Nearby places to Hampton
What else we make in Hampton
Your questions about under-stairs storage in Hampton
Is Hampton in the area you cover for under-stairs storage?
Yes. Hampton is one of the places we work, along with the rest of Richmond upon Thames and London. To get started, you can drop us a line using the contact form with some details.
Is parking a problem for fitting in Hampton?
It depends on the street, as many London boroughs run controlled parking zones. Depending on the street, a visitor permit, a paid bay or a bay suspension through the council may be needed, and suspensions often need notice. Let us know what parking is near you at the measuring visit.
What happens when you come to measure?
We measure the room, check how level the walls and floors are and talk through the design with you. Access and parking are worth talking about too.
Can I send photos before the visit?
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.
Is it possible to match the colour of my hallway?
Yes. You choose the colour, and we agree it before the work starts. We can spray it in the workshop or hand-paint it in your home. Both can be matched to a colour you already have.
Can you build storage around a gas meter or fuse board?
Yes. It is common to find a meter or fuse board under the stairs, and access has to be kept. We note them at the design visit and plan the drawers and doors around them. Moving a meter is not our work, so we design for where it is now.
Bespoke or off-the-shelf?
A confident DIYer can manage simple shelves or a standard wardrobe in a square room. It gets harder with sloping ceilings, out-of-level floors and lath-and-plaster walls, where scribing and fixings that suit the wall are important.
Bespoke work comes into its own in rooms that are not square. Older London rooms tend to have leaning walls, sloping floors and alcoves of different widths, which leaves standard units with gaps at the sides and top.
How fitting works for under-stairs storage
Furniture made in a workshop still has to meet the room it’s going into, and fitting day is where that happens. Walls in older homes are rarely flat or square, so each edge that meets a wall is scribed to follow it, until the line is tight. How long the fitting itself takes depends on the size of the space and the design, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. It’s useful to clear the room and the route before we arrive. Fitting day starts with protecting the floors and setting out the pieces. The pieces are levelled, fitted to the walls and fixed back.
- You get in touch with some 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.
- Your quote sets out the design, the materials and the finish. Take your time to look through it.
- Your storage is made at our workshop, cut to the angle of your stairs.
- The storage is fitted and set level, ready for the first coats and shoes.
Preparing the room
- Let us know about parking near your home
- Let us know about any meters, fuse boards or boilers in the area
- Book any lift and let the concierge or building manager know
Ask for a quote
Rough sizes are fine at the start. Everything is measured properly when we visit. To arrange it, drop us a line using the contact form with a few details about the room. You receive a written quote after the visit.
Advice
Do you need under-stairs storage in Hampton?
Others are looking for a small place to work. Where the space is open to a room, a built-in desk with shelves can fit there neatly. It won’t replace a full home office, but it suits paperwork and a laptop.
Common reasons to get in touch include:
- A staircase with untidy space beneath it
- A vacuum cleaner that has nowhere to go
- A low corner too deep to reach into
- Space under the stairs that’s hard to use
Close to Carlisle Park? Under-stairs cupboards can be designed to hold outdoor kit, from walking boots to picnic things.
Questions to ask before you hire anyone
- A quote in writing that sets out the job
- Real projects you can actually look at
- How the doors are hung and adjusted
- Whether the finish is set out in the quote
Tips worth knowing
Because fitted furniture stays put, a little upkeep goes a long way. A few pointers help:
- Find out what sits in the space now, from meters to pipes
- Note the size of anything tall you want to store
- Decide whether you’d like coats on hooks or on a rail
- Bring paint colours you like to the design visit
Before we leave, we check every drawer and door with you. If there is a meter or fuse board, we make sure its door opens fully and the meter is easy to see. You’ll know everything works as planned.
Keep the way to the meter or fuse board clear. Readers and engineers need to reach them, and you may need to as well. With its own door, the meter stays in reach without much effort.
Storage in Hampton homes: local notes
About 33% of the homes in the neighbourhood around Hampton went up between 1973 and 1999, and about 21% between 1919 and 1939, in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. We take that into account during the design visit, since older and newer walls take different fixings. 5 conservation areas have at least part of their area within a mile of central Hampton. England has around 10,000 in all, and their controls are mainly about the outside of buildings, so fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission. Fewer homes around Hampton date from before 1919 than across Richmond upon Thames: about 18%, against about 38%, on the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures for 2025. So the walls behind under-stairs cupboards here are more likely to be later brick, block or plasterboard, and they’re checked at the design visit.
Living in a block of flats near Hampton station? Then the lift, the stair turns and the front door all set the largest piece that can come in. The wider area includes historic houses like Strawberry Hill House, about 2 miles north-east. For a period home anywhere nearby, the space under the stairs may hold the meters or the fuse board, and the cupboards are planned around them.
Hampton is about 2 miles north-east of Twickenham, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. We design and make under-stairs storage for homes in Hampton, as part of our work in every London borough. Our work takes in places right across Richmond upon Thames, large and small.
Postcode districts we cover here for under-stairs storage: TW12 and TW11. If your home is on a street like Station Road, High Street and Old Farm Road, or close by, we can visit to measure up for under-stairs storage. Main roads around Hampton include the A3008, and we plan where the van can stop before fitting day. Neighbouring places we cover for under-stairs storage include Hanworth (1 mile north-west), Hampton Hill (1 mile east), Fulwell (1 mile north-east) and Teddington (2 miles east). Other parts of Richmond upon Thames we cover include Twickenham (2 miles north-east), Richmond (4 miles north-east), Richmond upon Thames (4 miles north-east), Barnes (7 miles north-east), Kew (6 miles north-east) and Mortlake (6 miles north-east). Being one of the larger places in Richmond upon Thames, Hampton is covered for all of our fitted furniture.
Local landmarks in Hampton
The streets we cover here include those near Lady Eleanor Holles School, Jolly Coopers pub and Hampton High and the streets around them. For rail, the closest station is Hampton station, roughly 0.5 miles south. Nearby you’ll also find Metropolitan Traffic Police Museum (0.7 miles south-east) and Teddington Memorial Hospital (1.5 miles east). For a walk, there is Oak Avenue Local Nature Reserve.