Under-Stairs Storage in Lisson Grove

Flats, blocks and rented homes

If your flat is leasehold, check your lease before fixing furniture to the walls. Some leases need the building owner’s consent for alterations, and that is best sorted before fitting day. We can’t advise on your lease, so check it yourself or ask your managing agent.

Blocks of flats often have their own rules on lift bookings, entry systems and times for trades. Tell us about them at the measuring visit, so fitting day is planned around them.

Bespoke or off-the-shelf?

What you pay for with bespoke is mainly the fit: scribed edges, a level base on an uneven floor and furniture that meets the ceiling, skirting and picture rail. In an older room, standard units rarely manage that.

Long shelves are where off-the-shelf often struggles. Span, depth and the weight on it decide whether a shelf sags, so a long run needs a thicker shelf, a stiffening lip or a support. That’s something we plan for in the design.

Fitted storage in Lisson Grove

In the area around Lisson Grove, the largest groups of homes date from before 1919 (about 37%) and between 1945 and 1972 (about 18%), in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. We take that into account at the design visit, since older and newer walls take different fixings. Near the centre of Lisson Grove, Historic England’s list includes Hanover Terrace (Grade I), under half a mile north-east, and Nuffield Lodge (Grade I), under half a mile north. Works inside a listed home that affect its character, for instance removing original joinery or fixing into it, may need listed building consent from the council. Check with the council’s conservation officer first. Purpose-built flats are home to about 77% of households in the neighbourhood around Lisson Grove, going by Census 2021 figures from the ONS. For a flat, under-stairs cupboards are made in sections sized for the stairs, the lift and the doors. Building management rules on lifts, deliveries and working hours are worth checking early.

Winfield House, about 0.4 miles north-east, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. For a period home anywhere nearby, under-stairs cupboards are scribed to walls and stair strings that are rarely straight. Living in a block of flats near London Marylebone station? Then the route in is measured not just the room, and the sections are sized to fit it.

Lisson Grove is about 1 mile south-east of City of Westminster, in the City of Westminster. Anywhere in Lisson Grove, the process is the same: a design visit, a written quote, furniture made in our workshop and fitting in your home. Our Westminster coverage includes Lisson Grove and the places around it.

In NW8, W1H and W2, the process is the same as anywhere else in London. Our area takes in homes on streets such as Hall Road, Park Road and Lodge Road, whether you want under-stairs storage or another piece made for the room. Lisson Grove sits close to the A5 and A40. If your home is on one of them, tell us during the design visit, as some main roads have strict stopping rules. Neighbouring places we cover for under-stairs storage include Paddington Green (1 mile south-west), Paddington (1 mile south), Little Venice (1 mile south-west), Connaught Village (1 mile south) and St John's Wood (1 mile north). Elsewhere in Westminster, we also cover Soho (2 miles south-east), Chinatown (2 miles south-east), St James's (2 miles south-east), Covent Garden (2 miles south-east), Aldwych (2 miles east) and Charing Cross (2 miles south-east).

Landmarks near Lisson Grove

We fit furniture in homes around St John's Wood Art School, Exeter Arms Public House and RIBA Library and the streets around them. There’s a railway station in Lisson Grove itself: London Marylebone station. Nearby you’ll also find Kingly Court (1.6 miles south-east) and Maida Vale Hospital for Nervous Diseases (0.5 miles west). Not far away are Greville Place nature reserve and The Long Water.