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Knightsbridge Under-Stairs Storage
In Knightsbridge, we design under-stairs storage around the room you actually have. Your under-stairs cupboard is designed at a visit to your home and built in our workshop.
- An old cupboard door that doesn’t suit the hall
- Nowhere to keep the vacuum and ironing board
- A fuse board that is hard to get to
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Under-stairs storage for homes in Knightsbridge
Pull-out drawers make the most of the low, deep end of the space. Instead of crawling in to find something, you slide the drawer out and everything is in view. Cupboards suit the taller end, where coats can hang and a vacuum cleaner can stand. Many designs for homes in Knightsbridge combine the two. If your home has nowhere to keep the vacuum and ironing board and a low corner too deep to reach into, that’s what under-stairs cupboards are for, made from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, spray-painted or hand-painted.
Ceilings and floors in homes built before 1919 are rarely level, and a large share of homes around Knightsbridge are that old. Under-stairs cupboards are scribed to the walls and levelled on site so doors, lids and drawers run true. Picture rails, skirting and cornices are worked around rather than removed.
Everything we agree at the design visit goes into the written quote: the layout, what goes inside, the materials used and the finish. If you’d like to change anything, it is easier before the furniture is made.
- Where
- Knightsbridge (SW1X, SW3, W1K)
- Borough
- Westminster
- Prices
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Made
- In our workshop, then fitted in your home
- Boards and paint
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- When we fit
- Weekdays, and Saturdays by prior arrangement
- Get in touch
- Send us a message
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Boards, parts and paint
Pull-out drawers
Some pull-outs are tall, with a rail for coats or room for a vacuum. Shorter drawers lower down suit shoes and bags. We plan the mix during the design visit.
Birch plywood
Its layered build gives birch plywood its strength. It goes into the carcasses, the shelves and the drawer boxes, with the edge either shown or painted.
Flats, leases and landlords
Blocks of flats often have their own rules on lift bookings, entry systems and times for trades. Let us know about them at the design visit, and we will plan the fitting around them.
If your flat is leasehold, check your lease before fixing furniture to the walls. A lease can require consent from the building owner for alterations, and that is best sorted before fitting day. We can’t give advice on leases, so check it yourself or ask your managing agent.
How fitting day works
However carefully a piece is made in the workshop, it still has to meet the room, and fitting day is where that happens. Few walls in older London homes are truly flat or square, so we scribe the edges by hand to follow the wall, until the line is tight. How long the fitting itself takes depends on how much storage you want under the stairs, and the fitting days are agreed in your quote. In houses converted into flats, the route in may include a shared hall and stairs, so it’s useful to let neighbours know about fitting day. The sections are sized for the narrowest point on the route. Saturdays can be arranged.
- 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 built in 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
- Point out meters, boilers and fuse boards near the furniture
- Take down pictures, mirrors and shelves from the wall
- Book any lift and let the concierge or building manager know
How to get a quote
The design visit is where every quote starts. We take full measurements, see how true the walls and floors are and work through the design together. A quote in writing follows the visit for you to look over. To arrange the visit, fill in our short enquiry form.
Related advice
Under-stairs storage for homes in Knightsbridge
About 67% of the homes in the streets around Knightsbridge went up before 1919, and about 15% between 1919 and 1939, on the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures for 2025. We take that into account at the measuring visit, since older and newer walls take different fixings. There are 328 entries on the National Heritage List within half a mile of the centre of Knightsbridge. Original fireplaces, shutters and panelling are worth keeping where they survive, and under-stairs cupboards can be designed to work around them. Around Knightsbridge, about 67% of homes date from before 1919, well above the figure for Westminster as a whole, about 49%, going by the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax figures. So older-house details are more likely to come into the design of under-stairs cupboards.
Near listed buildings like Apsley House, about 0.5 miles east of the centre of Knightsbridge, older homes may keep original joinery that under-stairs cupboards can be designed around. For a listed home, fixing into original features can need listed building consent. For a family home near Hellenic College of London, deep drawers suit the bulky things families collect, from scooters to swimming kit.
Knightsbridge is within the City of Westminster, about 1 mile north-east of City of Westminster. Anywhere in Knightsbridge, the process is the same: we visit and measure, send a quote in writing, make the furniture in our workshop and fit it. We cover places right across Westminster, from the busiest high streets to quiet residential roads.
We work across the SW1X, SW3 and W1K postcode area. We cover homes on streets like Hans Road, Park Lane and Cadogan Lane, along with the roads around them, for under-stairs storage and any of our other fitted furniture. Main roads around Knightsbridge include the A315 and A4202. If you’re just outside Knightsbridge, we also cover Tyburn (1 mile north), Mayfair (1 mile north-east), Hyde Park Estate (1 mile north), Connaught Village (1 mile north) and City of Westminster (1 mile north-east). Across the rest of Westminster, our area takes in Soho (2 miles north-east), Covent Garden (2 miles north-east), Aldwych (2 miles north-east), Charing Cross (2 miles east), Adelphi (2 miles east) and Lisson Grove (2 miles north).
Local landmarks in Knightsbridge
The streets we cover here include those near Natural History Museum Library and Archives, Saint Thomas More Language College and Paxtons Head pub and the streets around them. The nearest railway station is London Victoria station, roughly 0.9 miles south-east. A little further out are London Lock Hospital (0.6 miles east) and Westminster Synagogue Czech Memorial Scrolls Museum (under half a mile west). For a walk, there is Serpentine.
What affects the price in Knightsbridge
To work out the quote, we look at:
- The width and height of the space
- How easy it is to get the furniture into the room
- Parking near your home
- Hanging rails, shelves, drawers and other fittings inside
Rooms that aren’t square take more work: 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.
Before the design visit
The more you can tell us at the start, the better the design visit goes. It’s useful to include:
- Where you live, with the postcode
- Rough sizes: width, height and depth
- What you’d like to store or use the space for
- Photos of the whole wall or room, including the floor and ceiling
To make a start, fill in our short enquiry form and tell us a little about the room and what you want the furniture to do. We then arrange a design visit to measure and go through the design, and a quote in writing follows.
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FAQs: under-stairs storage in Knightsbridge
Do you make under-stairs storage for homes in Knightsbridge?
Yes, we work across Westminster, Knightsbridge included, and across the rest of London. You can tell us about the room on our contact form to arrange a design visit.
My house in Knightsbridge is Victorian. Can you deal with uneven walls?
Yes, that’s normal in older houses: each piece is scribed to the wall and levelled at the base. We also work around skirting boards, picture rails and cornices. Fixings are chosen for the wall, whether solid brick or lath and plaster.
Does someone need to be home during the fitting?
Someone needs to let us in. It also helps to have someone around at the end, so we can go over the finished furniture together.
What happens at 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, and the written quote comes afterwards.
Do I need permission in a conservation area?
Normally not. Fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission, even in a conservation area. Listed buildings can need listed building consent for works that affect their character, so ask the council’s conservation officer.
Can you fit a small desk under the stairs?
That depends on the shape of your stairs and the room beside them. We look at it at the measuring visit and tell you honestly whether it will work. Where it works, it makes a neat spot for a laptop and paperwork.
Do you need under-stairs storage in Knightsbridge?
People who have just moved in, or have just finished a hallway, often want the space under the stairs to match. New storage, painted in a colour chosen for the hall, can tie it together. Decorating is for your decorator, so it is useful to tell us your plans early.
Some of the things we’re asked to solve are these:
- A staircase with untidy space beneath it
- Needing a compact spot for a laptop
- Nowhere to keep the vacuum and ironing board
- A tired under-stairs cupboard that stands out
The wider area includes historic houses such as Apsley House, about 0.5 miles east. If your own home is a period one, the cupboard door under a period staircase can be kept or replaced to match the new storage.
Questions to ask before you hire anyone
- Whether you will get a quote in writing, not just a figure
- Whether the finish is set out in the quote
- Will other trades be needed, and who arranges them?
- How they deal with uneven walls and floors