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Under-stairs storage in Motspur Park, Kingston upon Thames
Pull-out drawers, cupboards and coat storage under the stairs, designed for your room in Motspur Park. We measure, design and quote first, then make it in our workshop and fit it.
- Stairs open to a room, with clutter on show
- A tired under-stairs cupboard that stands out
- Cleaning things with no proper home
Need under-stairs storage in Motspur Park?
Common questions about under-stairs storage
Do you make under-stairs storage for homes in Motspur Park?
Yes, we work across Kingston upon Thames, Motspur Park included, and across the rest of London. To get started, you can use our contact form with a few details.
Will a conservation area stop me having under-stairs storage fitted in Motspur Park?
Usually not: conservation area rules mainly cover the outside of buildings, and fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission. If your home is listed, works inside that affect its character can require listed building consent, so check with the council first. The council’s planning or conservation team can tell you if in doubt.
How long will the fitting take?
The time the fitting takes depends on the size of the space and the design, and your quote sets out the fitting days. Drawers, doors and carcasses are all made in the workshop before we arrive. If you’d like the fitting on a Saturday, that can be arranged.
Do I need to be in when you fit?
Someone needs to be there to let us in. You don’t need to watch us work.
Should I choose drawers or cupboards under the stairs?
Many designs use both. Drawers make the most of the low, deep end of the space, while a cupboard at the tall end takes coats, the vacuum or an ironing board. We talk it through at the measuring visit.
How much does under-stairs storage cost?
Your quote is written for your room once we’ve visited and measured. The mix of drawers, doors and shelves, and the finish you choose, all play a part. Everything is set out in a written quote after the visit.
How we make under-stairs storage for Motspur Park
Under-stairs cupboards often hold a gas meter, an electricity meter or the fuse board. They need to stay accessible, so readings and safety checks can still be made. Our designs keep a clear way to them, often behind their own door, so the space works hard without hiding anything that matters. At the design visit in Motspur Park, we note what’s there and design around it. We make under-stairs cupboards from MDF made to resist moisture and birch plywood, then spray-painted or hand-painted, and the things people most often want solved are a low corner too deep to reach into and wanting a quiet corner for paperwork.
Around Motspur Park, interwar houses or semi-detached and detached homes make up a good part of the housing. If yours is a 1920s or 1930s house, the bay window at the front, the space under the stairs and the box room are the usual places to gain storage. Any meters or fuse boards that need to stay reachable are designed around.
The written quote is your record of the job. It describes the under-stairs cupboard we have designed for the room, its materials and its finish, and the workshop works from it.
- Place
- Motspur Park (KT3, SW20, KT2)
- Area
- Kingston upon Thames
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- Design visit, then a written quote
- Where it’s made
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Boards and paint
- MDF and birch plywood, painted
- When we fit
- Weekdays (Saturdays if arranged)
- Enquiries
- Our contact form
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
Flats, conversions and leaseholders
For flats on red routes or busy main roads, unloading takes some planning. Red routes are run by TfL and have strict stopping rules, so it is worth raising at the measuring visit.
Landlords furnishing a let use fitted furniture too. It is made from the same moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood as any of our work.
What under-stairs storage cannot fix
As carpenters, we leave some work to other trades. It is useful to know these before you plan the job:
- Relocating meters, which your energy supplier deals with
- Any wiring or new lights, which need an electrician
- Reshaping or rebuilding the staircase
If in doubt, you can send us a few details through our contact form and describe the room. How it works.
Boards, parts and finishes
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Hand-painted finish
- Pull-out drawers
- Spray-painted finish
- Coat hooks and shoe shelves
- Birch plywood
Is it time for under-stairs storage?
The most common reason is clutter. 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, and you no longer need to empty the cupboard to reach one thing.
Most of the enquiries we get are about things like these:
- A low corner too deep to reach into
- Nowhere to put coats, shoes and bags
- Stairs open to a room, with clutter on show
- Space under the stairs that is hard to use
The wider area includes historic houses such as Southside House, about 0.8 miles north-east. For a period home anywhere nearby, pull-out drawers can reach right to the back of a deep under-stairs space.
Choosing a carpenter
- Have they measured the stairs, lift and doorways?
- How parking will work on your street
- Whether they measure the room themselves
- Which materials they’ll use, named in the quote
Tips worth knowing
Looking after painted furniture is simple with a little care. These habits help most:
- Clear the space before the design visit if you can
- Look for meters, a fuse board or pipes before we visit
- Think about how your household uses coats and shoes
- Let us know about parking near your home
When you load the drawers, put the heaviest things low and towards the front. That keeps the drawers running smoothly and the load where the carcass is strongest. Shelves are made for the things you told us about at the measuring visit, so stick to that and they’ll stay straight.
Check now and then that handles and hinges are tight. A loose handle is easy to tighten before it works its way out. If a drawer stops running smoothly, send us a few details through our contact form and describe it.
Storage in Motspur Park homes: local notes
In the neighbourhood around Motspur Park, the largest groups of homes date from before 1919 (about 34%) and between 1919 and 1939 (about 31%), going by the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax figures. Each era brings its own kind of wall, ceiling height and floor, so it shapes the design from the first measurement. 7 conservation areas have at least part of their area within a mile of central Motspur Park. England has around 10,000 in all, and their controls are mostly concerned with the outside of buildings. Red routes, run by TfL, have strict rules on stopping and loading. If your home in Motspur Park is on or near a main road, tell us at the design visit. Then we can work out where to load and unload.
For families living near St Matthew's CofE Primary School, deep drawers suit the bulky things families collect, from scooters to swimming kit. Close to Beverley Park? Under-stairs cupboards can be designed to hold outdoor kit, from walking boots to picnic things.
Motspur Park is part of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, about 2 miles west of Kingston upon Thames. Homes in Motspur Park are part of the area we cover for under-stairs storage. Our Kingston upon Thames coverage includes Motspur Park.
Design visits and fitting in KT3, SW20 and KT2 work the same way as everywhere else we cover. Streets in the area include Traps Lane, Coombe Road and Coombe Lane, and we cover homes on all of them for under-stairs storage. The A238 runs close to Motspur Park; on busy main roads, unloading under-stairs cupboards takes a little planning. We also cover New Malden (1 mile south-west), West Barnes (1 mile south-east), Coombe (1 mile north-west), Raynes Park (1 mile south-east) and Copse Hill (1 mile north-east). Elsewhere in Kingston upon Thames, we also cover Kingston upon Thames (2 miles west), Surbiton (2 miles south-west), Hampton Wick (3 miles west), Chessington (4 miles south-west), Seething Wells (3 miles south-west) and Hook (4 miles south-west).
Around Motspur Park
Our area takes in the homes around The Royal Oak Public House, Ursuline Preparatory School and Coombe Girls' School, among other places. The closest station to Motspur Park is New Malden station, about 0.5 miles south-west of the centre. A little further out are Atkinson Morley Hospital (0.8 miles north-east) and Wimbledon Museum (1.7 miles north-east). Green spaces nearby include Fishpond Wood and Beverley Meads.
How fitting day works
In older rooms, the furniture typically has to meet skirting, picture rails, cornice or coving. On fitting day, we cut and scribe the furniture around these details, so it sits neatly against the room. The time the fitting takes depends on how much storage you want under the stairs, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. Interwar houses usually have a straight run of stairs and a reasonable hallway, though we still measure the route in as well as the room. Under-stairs cupboards arrive in sections and are assembled in place, with floors protected throughout.
- You get in touch and describe the stairs and the hall.
- 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.
- We fit the storage in your home, trimming the edges so they meet the stairs neatly. The finish is sprayed in the workshop or painted by hand once it’s in.
How to prepare
- Leave a clear route from the front door to the room
- Empty the space we will be working in
- Get any new sockets or wiring done by your electrician before fitting day
How to get a quote
It’s useful to see the room before we come. Pictures of the whole wall, the corners and the ceiling line give us a good feel for the space, along with rough measurements. To share them, drop us a line using the contact form, and we’ll suggest a time for a design visit.