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Under-stairs storage in North End, Hammersmith and Fulham
We make under-stairs storage in moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood for homes in North End. The finish is spray painted or hand painted, in a colour agreed with you.
- Struggling to reach the gas or electricity meter
- Open space under the stairs that collects clutter
- Cleaning things with no proper home
Under-stairs storage for your home in North End
FAQs: under-stairs storage in North End
My house in North End 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.
Will parking be an issue for fitting furniture in North End?
It can be: much of inner London is covered by controlled parking zones. A van may need a visitor permit, a paid bay or a parking bay suspension, which the council arranges, often with notice. Let us know what parking is near you during the design visit.
What materials do you use for under-stairs storage?
Moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, with a spray-painted or hand-painted finish. Drawer boxes are birch plywood, as it is strong and holds screws firmly. The materials and finish are agreed in your quote.
Do you work on Saturdays?
Yes, we can arrange Saturdays. Just mention it when you contact us.
Do you move sockets or add lighting?
No. Sockets, switches and lighting are for your electrician. We’ll design around them.
Is it possible to have a desk built under the stairs?
That depends on the shape of your stairs and the room beside them. At the design visit we’ll say whether a desk makes sense there. Where it works, it makes a neat spot for a laptop and paperwork.
Under-stairs storage in North End: what you get
The space under a staircase is often the hardest-working spot in a house, and the least organised. We design under-stairs storage around the things you actually want to keep there, with pull-out drawers, cupboards or a combination of the two. For a home in North End, it starts with a design visit to measure the space and talk it through. We make under-stairs cupboards from MDF made to resist moisture and birch plywood, then spray-painted or hand-painted, and people most often get in touch about space under the stairs that’s hard to use and a tired under-stairs cupboard that stands out.
A Victorian or Edwardian terrace typically has a long, narrow hall leading to the stairs. A large share of the homes around North End were built before 1919, so depth matters as much as width wherever storage goes. Shallow units keep the way through clear.
A quote in writing follows the design visit. It describes the design we discussed, the materials and the finish.
- Where
- North End (W14, SW6, SW5)
- Area
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- First step
- Design visit, then a written quote
- Making
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Materials and finish
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- Working days
- Weekdays; Saturdays on request
- Enquiries
- Send us a message
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
Do you need under-stairs storage in North End?
Sometimes the reason is a meter reading or an engineer’s visit, and the struggle to reach the meter. Planned storage can leave a clear path to the meter or fuse board, while the rest of the space is put to proper use.
If any of these sound familiar, it is worth getting in touch:
- A hallway crowded with coats and shoes
- Wanting a quiet corner for paperwork
- A sloping corner nobody can reach
- Storage that does not match the hallway
Garden Lodge, about 0.4 miles north-east, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. For a period home anywhere nearby, the space under the stairs may hold the meters or the fuse board, and the cupboards are planned around them.
Before you hire any carpenter
- Are the boards named, such as MDF or plywood?
- Do they scribe the furniture to the walls?
- How parking will work on your street
- A quote in writing that sets out the job
Neighbourhoods near North End
What else we make in North End
Flats, conversions and lettings
If your building is on a red route or a busy main road, getting the furniture from the van to the door needs planning. Red routes are run by TfL and have strict stopping rules, so it is worth raising during the design visit.
A lot of London’s terraced houses are now converted flats, which often brings a shared hall and tight turns on the stairs. Each section is sized with that in mind, after measuring the route at the measuring visit.
How it is made
Plinths and scribe strips
The floor under a staircase is rarely perfectly level. A plinth or adjustable feet let us set the storage level, so the doors and drawers run true.
Pull-out drawers
The back of an under-stairs space is hard to reach, so drawers that slide out are often the answer. Everything is in view when the drawer is open. Shoe drawers, a drawer for the vacuum and drawers for cleaning things are all possible.
Bespoke or off-the-shelf?
Ready-made units are designed for shipping and quick assembly. Bespoke storage is designed for one space and built to suit it, with birch plywood drawer boxes that hold screws well and carry weight. Which suits you depends on how much you want from the space. Tall ceilings in older homes leave a band of empty wall above standard furniture, wasting space that could hold things you rarely use. Fitted furniture can go all the way up.
Tricky rooms take more time: uneven walls, sloping floors and angled ceilings all add scribing and cutting on site. The quote allows for it.
Why choose us
- Work across the whole of London
- Over 300 projects completed
- Built from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood
- Saturday visits and fitting by prior arrangement
Under-stairs storage for homes in North End
Homes built before 1919 make up about 68% of the housing in the area around North End, with about 11% built between 1973 and 1999, based on the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax data. It’s a good starting point, though every room is still measured, as two homes of the same age rarely match. 12 conservation areas have at least part of their area less than a mile from the middle of North End. Historic England says England has around 10,000, and the controls mainly cover the outside of buildings, so fitted furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need planning permission. About 68% of homes in the neighbourhood around North End were built before 1919, on the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax figures for 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 as old as some of the listed buildings nearby, like Church of St Cuthbert and St Matthias, original features like shutters, panelling and fireplaces are worth designing around. For a listed home, fixing into original features may need listed building consent. For a flat near Kensington Olympia station, each piece is planned so it can be carried up and joined together in the room.
North End is part of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, about 1 mile south of Fulham. Our work covers every London borough and the City of London, North End included. We cover places right across Hammersmith and Fulham, large and small.
We cover every part of W14, SW6 and SW5 for under-stairs storage. You will find streets here such as Sun Road, Star Road and Field Road, and we cover homes on all of them for under-stairs storage. We also cover the places around North End: West Kensington (1 mile east), Brook Green (1 mile north-west), Fulham (1 mile south), Hammersmith (1 mile west) and Brackenbury Village (1 mile north-west). Across the rest of Hammersmith and Fulham, our area takes in Chelsea Harbour (2 miles south-east), Sands End (2 miles south-east), White City (2 miles north-west), College Park (3 miles north-west) and Old Oak Common (3 miles north-west).
Local landmarks in North End
Our area takes in the homes around Seven Stars pub, Polish Library POSK in London and Avonmore Primary School and the streets around them. The closest station to North End is Kensington Olympia station, roughly 0.5 miles north. A little further out are Chelsea Stadium Tour And Museum (1 mile south-east) and Fulham Hospital (0.6 miles south-west). Open spaces near North End include WWT London Wetland Centre and Campden Hill.
Fitting day, step by step
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. On fitting day in an older house, the main job is scribing to walls and levelling on floors that slope, so each piece is trimmed and adjusted on site. Floors are protected, and dust is kept down as far as possible. Parking can be tight on terraced streets, so tell us about permits and bays during the design visit.
- You tell us about the space under the stairs.
- We come to measure and discuss the design.
- We send a written quote covering the design, materials and finish.
- We make the drawers and cupboards in our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- We fit it in your home with a spray-painted or hand-painted finish, and run through each drawer and door with you.
- New paint needs time to cure fully, so open and close things gently at first.
Before fitting day
- Take down pictures, mirrors and shelves from the wall
- Leave a clear route from the front door to the room
- Let us know if your street is in a controlled parking zone
How to get a quote
To get a quote for under-stairs storage in North End, fill in our short enquiry form. Let us know which room it is and roughly what you have in mind, with sizes if you have them. We’ll arrange a design visit, then send a quote in writing.