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Under-stairs storage in Nag's Head, Islington
Under-stairs storage in Nag's Head: pull-out drawers, cupboards and coat storage under the stairs. Every piece is made in our workshop and fitted in your home.
- Stairs open to a room, with clutter on show
- A vacuum cleaner that has nowhere to go
- Coats and shoes piling up in the hall
Under-stairs storage designed for your room
About our under-stairs storage in Nag's Head
We make each under-stairs cupboard in our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood. Birch plywood is strong and holds screws well, which suits drawer boxes that carry weight, and MDF gives the doors and fronts a smooth surface for paint. Once painted, by spray or by hand, it’s brought to your home in Nag's Head and fitted. If your home has space under the stairs that’s hard to use and nowhere to keep the vacuum and ironing board, under-stairs cupboards made from MDF made to resist moisture and birch plywood, then spray-painted or hand-painted can solve it.
Original features like shutters, cupboard doors and panelling are worth keeping where they survive. With a large share of the homes around Nag's Head built before 1919, fitted storage can be designed to sit alongside them. Door styles can be chosen to suit the age of the house, and painted to match. For a listed home, fixing into original joinery can need consent, so check first.
Once you’ve read the quote and decided to go ahead, the furniture is built in our workshop. The quote sets out the agreed design, materials and finish, so you can check every detail beforehand.
- Location
- Nag's Head (N7, N19, N4)
- Area
- Islington
- Prices
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- Design visit, then a quote in writing
- Where it is made
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Made from
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Fitting days
- Monday to Friday; Saturdays by arrangement
- Enquiries
- Our contact form
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Flats, conversions and lettings
Blocks of flats often have their own rules on lift bookings, entry systems and times for trades. Let us know about them at the measuring visit, so fitting day is planned 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 cannot give advice on leases.
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What else we make in Nag's Head
From workshop to your room
The last stage of the day is the finish. If the furniture was spray painted in the workshop, we fill the fixing holes and touch up on site; hand painting, if that’s what you chose, can be done in place once everything is fitted. The finish is always the one agreed in your quote. On fitting day, edges are trimmed on site to follow the walls, so we ask for a clear space to work near the room. We keep dust down and tidy as we go. Hand painting, if that is your finish, can follow the fitting.
- You get in touch and tell us a little about the space under your stairs, and whether the meters or fuse board are in there.
- We visit to measure the space and talk through the design with you, keeping the meters and fuse board easy to reach.
- You receive a quote in writing for the storage we’ve discussed, for you to read through.
- Your storage is made at our workshop and painted to the colour you chose.
- We bring it to your home, fit it and leave it ready to use.
Getting ready for fitting day
- Move anything in the hall or on the stairs out of the way
- Move furniture and belongings away from the wall
- Have your electrician move any sockets or switches beforehand
Starting with a design visit
If you know what you want, say so; if not, we can work it out together at the visit. At the design visit, we measure up and talk the design through with you, and the written quote then sets it out. To start, get in touch through our contact form.
Related advice
Bespoke or off-the-shelf?
Off-the-shelf cupboards come in fixed sizes, so there is typically a gap left over at the top or at one end. Furniture we make is built to the room’s own sizes, so it can run to the ceiling and fill the width.
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.
What affects the cost of under-stairs storage
Several things affect the price:
- The number of doors and drawers
- Parking near your home
- The overall size of the piece
- How square the room is
No two rooms cost the same to furnish, because the size, the layout and the finish all vary. A spray finish and a hand-painted finish involve different work, and that shows in the price. You will see the figure in your written quote, after the design visit.
Getting in touch
Ahead of the design visit, we will normally ask about:
- Rough measurements, even if they’re only to the nearest few centimetres
- What the furniture needs to hold
- The type of home and how the room is reached
- The postcode, so we can plan the visit
To get a quote for under-stairs storage in Nag's Head, tell us about the room on our contact form. Tell us which room it is and roughly what you have in mind, with sizes if you have them. Next comes a design visit, followed by a written quote.
Under-stairs storage in Nag's Head: local notes
The biggest shares of homes in the neighbourhood around Nag's Head were built before 1919 (about 52%) and since 2000 (about 19%), based on the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax data. For carpentry, the era of a house is a useful clue to how square its rooms are and what its walls are made of. Entries on the National Heritage List near the centre of Nag's Head include Odeon Cinema (Grade II), under half a mile north-west, and Montem Primary School Laundry Centre (Grade II), under half a mile north. If your own home is listed, works inside that affect its character, such as fixing into or removing original joinery, may need listed building consent. Ask the council’s conservation officer before anything is fixed. London’s red routes are run by TfL, and stopping on them is tightly controlled. Where a home in Nag's Head is on or beside a main road, it is useful to mention that during the design visit. We can then plan where the van will stop.
For families living near Grafton Primary School, deep drawers suit the bulky things families collect, from scooters to swimming kit. If you live in a flat close to Drayton Park station, each piece is planned so it can be carried up and joined together in the room.
Nag's Head is within the London Borough of Islington, about 1 mile south-east of Highbury. Wherever you are in Nag's Head, the process is the same: a design visit, a quote in writing, furniture made at our workshop and fitting in your home. Nag's Head is one of 17 places on our list for Islington.
Every address in N7, N19 and N4 is within our area for under-stairs storage. Whether you live on a street such as Penn Road, Tabley Road and Lowman Road or on one nearby, we can arrange a design visit for under-stairs storage. If you are just outside Nag's Head, we also cover Holloway (1 mile south), Lower Holloway (1 mile south), Tufnell Park (1 mile west), Upper Holloway (1 mile north-west) and Barnsbury (1 mile south). Other parts of Islington we cover include Farringdon (3 miles south), Clerkenwell (2 miles south), Finsbury (3 miles south-east), St Luke's (2 miles south-east), Angel (2 miles south) and Pentonville (2 miles south).
Around Nag's Head
The streets we cover here include those near Beacon High, Musical Theatre Academy and Vaughan Williams Memorial Library. The nearest railway station is Drayton Park station, roughly 0.6 miles south-east of the centre. Nearby you’ll also find Royal Northern Hospital (a few minutes’ walk north-west) and Arsenal Football Club Museum (close by, under half a mile east). Green spaces nearby include Gillespie Park and Dartmouth Park Hill.
Your questions about under-stairs storage in Nag's Head
My home in Nag's Head is a period house with walls that are not straight. Is that a problem?
Yes. Walls in older houses are rarely flat or square, and floors are often out of level, so each piece is scribed to follow the wall and set level on a plinth or adjustable feet. Skirting, picture rails and cornices are met neatly or cut around. Fixings are chosen for the wall, whether solid brick or lath and plaster.
Do I need permission for fitted furniture in a conservation area?
Not normally. Conservation area controls are mainly about the outside of buildings, so fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission. Listed buildings are different, as works inside that affect their character may need listed building consent from the council. If you are unsure, the council can confirm.
Can you add sockets inside the units?
No. Sockets, switches and lighting are for your electrician, and some electrical work in homes is covered by Part P of the Building Regulations. We plan the furniture around where they’ll go.
Do you cover areas outside London?
No. We cover London only: every London borough and the City of London.
Can the fitting be on a Saturday?
Yes, we can arrange Saturdays. Let us know when you first get in touch.
Can under-stairs storage work around the fuse board?
Yes. It is common to find a meter or fuse board under the stairs, and access has to be kept. At the design visit we measure around them and leave a clear way in. We don’t move meters, so the storage works around their current position.
Is it time for under-stairs storage?
The low end of the space is typically the problem. You can’t stand up in it, and you can’t reach the back without kneeling. Pull-out drawers solve that by bringing the back of the space to you.
Common reasons to get in touch include:
- Coats and shoes piling up in the hall
- Needing a compact spot for a laptop
- The low end of the space going to waste
- A tired under-stairs cupboard that stands out
Witanhurst, about 1.7 miles north-west, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. If your own home is a period one, the space under the stairs may hold the meters or the fuse board, and the cupboards are planned around them.
Questions to ask before you hire anyone
- Whether the quote follows a visit to your home
- A written quote that sets out the job
- Where they’ll park and unload
- Can you see real work of theirs?