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Under-stairs storage in Newington Green, Islington
Pull-out drawers, cupboards and coat storage under the stairs, designed for your room in Newington Green. After a design visit and a written quote, it is made in our workshop and fitted in your home.
- A low corner too deep to reach into
- An under-stairs cupboard full of clutter
- Coats and shoes piling up in the hall
Under-stairs storage for your home in Newington Green
Honest limits
Our work is the furniture itself: designing it, making it in our workshop and fitting it. That means:
- Painting the hallway walls and ceiling
- New sockets, lights or wiring, which are for your electrician
- Gas pipework, which needs a Gas Safe registered engineer
If in doubt, you can send us a few details through our contact form and describe the room before you arrange a visit. How it works.
Materials and parts
- Hand-painted finish
- Coat hooks and shoe shelves
- Birch plywood
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Pull-out drawers
- Spray-painted finish
About our under-stairs storage in Newington Green
In many terraced houses, the gas meter, electricity meter or fuse board sits under the stairs. These must stay easy to reach for meter readers and engineers. We plan the storage around them, typically with a door that leaves them in clear reach, so you gain storage without losing access. If you’re not sure what’s under your stairs in Newington Green, we’ll look when we visit. If your home has a meter or fuse board buried behind clutter and the low end of the space going to waste, under-stairs cupboards made from moisture-resistant MDF and strong birch plywood, with a painted finish can solve it.
Where original shutters, doors or panelling survive, they’re worth designing around. With a large share of the homes around Newington Green built before 1919, fitted storage can be designed to sit alongside them. Door styles can be chosen to suit the age of the house. If your home is listed, check with the council before fixing into original joinery.
If the job needs another trade, such as an electrician or a plumber, we’ll tell you. The quote itself covers our work, from the design to the materials and finish.
- Place
- Newington Green (N16, N1, N5)
- Borough
- Islington
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- We visit, measure, then quote
- Made
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Made from
- MDF and birch plywood, painted
- When we fit
- Weekdays; Saturdays on request
- Enquiries
- Our contact form
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
What prompts under-stairs storage in Newington Green
When a home is short on storage, the space under the stairs is too useful to waste. A well-designed under-stairs cupboard can take the coats, shoes, cleaning things and bags that would otherwise crowd the hall. It also takes pressure off the other cupboards in the house.
Some of the things we are asked to solve are these:
- No room for a small desk or a place to work
- Nowhere to put coats, shoes and bags
- Stairs open to a room, with clutter on show
- A meter or fuse board buried behind clutter
For families living near Newington Green Primary School, under-stairs cupboards can give school bags, shoes and sports kit a proper home.
Choosing a carpenter
- How they’ll get the furniture into the room
- Whether the quote follows a visit to your home
- Will the quote be in writing?
- Whether they can show you real projects they’ve done
Fitted storage in Newington Green
Homes built before 1919 make up about 53% of the housing in the area around Newington Green, with about 22% built between 1945 and 1972, on the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures for 2025. Knowing roughly when a home was built helps, because walls and fixings change from one era to the next. Entries on the National Heritage List near the centre of Newington Green include Church of St Matthias (Grade I), under half a mile east, and St Paul's Church (Grade II*), less than half a mile south. If your own home is listed, works inside that affect its character, like fixing into or removing original joinery, may need listed building consent. An early word with the council’s conservation officer is the best first step. More than half of the homes in the neighbourhood around Newington Green (about 53%) were built before 1919, according to Valuation Office Agency council tax figures (2025). Under the stairs in an older terrace is often where the meters or the fuse board are, so the design keeps them accessible.
If your home is one of the older houses near Newington Green Unitarian Church, the triangle under an old staircase is often deeper than it looks. For a flat near Canonbury station, under-stairs cupboards are made in sections sized for the stairs, landings and lift, so measuring the route matters as much as measuring the room.
Newington Green is within the London Borough of Islington, about 1 mile west of Highbury. Our work covers every London borough and the City of London, Newington Green included. In Islington, Newington Green is one of the places we cover.
Here we cover the N16, N1 and N5 postcode area for under-stairs storage. If your home is on a street such as Dove Road, Burma Road and Piano Lane, or close by, we can visit to measure up for under-stairs storage. Newington Green is near the A1199; on busy main roads, unloading under-stairs cupboards takes a little planning. Neighbouring places we cover for under-stairs storage include Mildmay (1 mile south), Highbury (1 mile west), Canonbury (1 mile south), De Beauvoir Town (1 mile south) and Kingsland (1 mile south-east). Elsewhere in Islington, we also cover Farringdon (2 miles south), Clerkenwell (2 miles south-west), Finsbury (2 miles south), St Luke's (2 miles south), Angel (2 miles south-west) and Upper Holloway (2 miles north-west).
What’s near Newington Green
We fit furniture in homes around Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form, Army and Navy pub and Stoke Newington School and Sixth Form. Newington Green has its own railway station: Canonbury station. A little further out are German Hospital (0.8 miles east) and Hackney Walk (1.5 miles east). Green spaces nearby include Gillespie Park.
How fitting works for under-stairs storage
Once the main sections are fixed in place, any doors go on and any drawers or lids are fitted. Each one is adjusted until the gaps are even and it closes cleanly, then checked again. How long fitting takes depends on the size of the space and the design, and the fitting days are agreed in your quote. Parking on terraced streets can be tight, especially in a controlled parking zone, so it helps to tell us at the measuring visit what’s outside. Unloading is kept short, with sections taken straight inside. Saturday fitting can be arranged.
- You contact us about the space under your stairs.
- At the design visit we measure the underside of the stairs and the floor, then talk through drawers, cupboards and coat storage.
- 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. The finish is sprayed in the workshop or painted by hand once it’s in.
How to prepare
- Make sure pets are kept safely away
- Let us know about any meters, fuse boards or boilers in the area
- Tell us about parking near your home
Getting a quote
We quote once we’ve seen the room. We measure the space, check the walls and floors and discuss what you’d like, then send a quote in writing. Because every job is different, the cost is set out in a written quote after the visit. To book a design visit, message us from the contact page.
Related advice
Questions we are often asked
Do you cover homes near Canonbury station?
Yes, homes across Islington and the rest of London are within the area we cover. To get started, you can get in touch through our contact form with a few details about the room.
Can parking be tricky on fitting day in Newington Green?
It can be, as controlled parking zones cover much of inner London. A van may need a visitor permit, a paid bay or a parking bay suspension, which the council arranges, often with notice. It is useful to tell us about parking during the design visit, so the day can be planned around it.
Is it possible to have a desk built under the stairs?
In many homes it’s possible, if the space is open to a room and tall enough at one end. We can build a desk with shelves and drawers to suit the space. New sockets or lights are for your electrician, and we leave a route for the cables.
Do you move sockets or add lighting?
No. Sockets, switches and lighting are for your electrician. We’ll design around them.
What is under-stairs storage made from?
The storage is made from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood. MDF is stable and takes paint well, so it suits the doors and fronts, while birch plywood gives strength to the drawers and carcasses. The finish is spray-painted or hand-painted.
How long will the fitting take?
How long the fitting takes depends on how much storage you want under the stairs, and the fitting days are agreed in your quote. We make every part in our workshop, so the time at your home is spent fitting. If you’d like the fitting on a Saturday, that can be arranged.
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What affects the cost of under-stairs storage
The price reflects the time and materials the job needs. That depends on:
- Stairs, lifts and the route to the room
- Parking and unloading on your street
- What goes inside: rails, shelves, drawers and dividers
- The overall size of the piece
Access to the room makes a difference too. Several flights of stairs, a small lift or a narrow hall can mean smaller sections and more carrying. Every piece is quoted for your room after the design visit.
Before the design visit
Some details help us understand the job before we visit. It’s useful to include:
- Whether it is a house or a flat, and if there are stairs or a lift
- How you want to use the space
- Pictures of styles you like, if you have any
- Pictures showing the full wall, from floor to ceiling
The price comes in a written quote, worked out from the measurements and the design you choose. Each room is different, so we quote after seeing it, when we have measured up and talked through the design. To arrange a visit, tell us about the room on our contact form.
DIY, flat-pack or bespoke
A confident DIYer can manage simple shelves or a standard wardrobe in a square room. Sloping ceilings, uneven floors and lath-and-plaster walls make it harder, because scribing and the right fixings start to matter.
Shop-bought shelves can sag over a long span. 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 is something we plan for in the design.