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Under-stairs storage in Northwick Park, Brent
In Northwick Park, we design under-stairs storage around the room you actually have. Your under-stairs cupboard is designed at a visit to your home and built in our workshop.
- Storage that doesn’t match the hallway
- A hallway crowded with coats and shoes
- A meter or fuse board buried behind clutter
Under-stairs storage in Northwick Park
When is bespoke worth it?
What you pay for with bespoke is mainly the fit: edges scribed to the wall, a level base on a sloping floor and a neat line where the furniture meets the ceiling. Off-the-shelf furniture cannot usually do that in an older room.
Standard units come in set widths and heights, so there’s usually 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 use the full height and width.
About our under-stairs storage in Northwick Park
Under-stairs storage is not only for houses. Maisonettes, split-level flats and homes with stairs down to a lower floor often have usable space beneath the steps. The parts we make in our workshop are sized to get through the doors and hallways on the way in. The same careful process applies to any home in Northwick Park. Most enquiries start with the low end of the space going to waste and cleaning things with no proper home, and the answer is made in our workshop from birch ply and moisture-resistant MDF, painted by hand or sprayed.
A large number of homes around Northwick Park date from 2000 onwards, and newer homes rarely come with much storage. Halls, landings and the space beneath the stairs are where fitted storage can help. Walls in newer homes are often plasterboard on timber or metal studs, so the fixings are chosen for that.
The written quote puts the design visit in writing: the layout, what goes inside, the materials used and the finish. If something is not quite right, tell us before anything is made.
- Place
- Northwick Park (HA1, HA3, HA0)
- Borough
- Brent
- Prices
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- Design visit, then a quote in writing
- Made
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Made from
- MDF and birch plywood, painted
- When we fit
- Weekdays; Saturdays on request
- Enquiries
- Our contact form
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
The problems under-stairs storage solve
People who have just moved in, or have just finished a hallway, often want the space under the stairs to match. Storage made for the space and painted to suit the hall finishes the job. Decorating is for your decorator, so it helps to tell us your plans early.
Under-stairs storage can help with:
- A low corner too deep to reach into
- Storage that does not match the hallway
- A vacuum cleaner that has nowhere to go
- A meter or fuse board buried behind clutter
If you live in a period home close to Saint Cuthberts Church, the cupboard door under a period staircase can be kept or replaced to match the new storage.
Before you choose who makes it
- Whether the route into your home has been checked
- Whether they can show you real projects they’ve done
- Who does any electrics, plumbing or gas work
- How the furniture will be finished, and where
Making use of tricky spaces in Northwick Park
About 39% of the homes in the neighbourhood around Northwick Park went up since 2000, and about 35% between 1919 and 1939, according to Valuation Office Agency council tax figures (2025). We take that into account during the design visit, since older and newer walls take different fixings. Entries on the National Heritage List near the centre of Northwick Park include Parish Church of St Mary (Grade I), about 0.5 miles west, and The Old Schools (Grade I), about 0.6 miles west. Where a home is listed, listed building consent can be needed for inside works that affect its character, such as fixing into original panelling. Ask the council’s conservation officer before anything is fixed. Purpose-built flats are home to about 49% of households in the streets around Northwick Park, according to Census 2021. 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.
For a flat near Kenton station, it’s useful to book the lift and tell the concierge before fitting day. The wider area includes historic houses like Headstone Manor, about 1.9 miles north-west. 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.
Northwick Park is part of the London Borough of Brent, about 6 miles south-east of Kilburn. We design and make under-stairs storage for homes in Northwick Park and across Brent. Northwick Park is one of 29 places on our list for Brent.
Here we cover the HA1, HA3 and HA0 postcode area for under-stairs storage. Our area takes in homes on streets such as Lyon Road, Manor Road and Gayton Road, along with the roads around them, for under-stairs storage and any of our other fitted furniture. Northwick Park sits close to the A404. Nearby, we also make under-stairs storage in Greenhill (1 mile north-west), Harrow on the Hill (1 mile south-west), South Kenton (1 mile east), Kenton (1 mile north-east) and Harrow (1 mile west). We also make under-stairs storage in nearby places such as Kilburn (6 miles south-east), Neasden (4 miles east), Harlesden (4 miles south-east), Wembley (2 miles south-east), Queen's Park (6 miles south-east) and Church End (4 miles south-east).
What’s near Northwick Park
In Northwick Park, that includes homes near Trinity Bar, Orley Farm School and St Anselm's Catholic Primary School, among other places. Northwick Park’s nearest station is Kenton station, roughly 0.6 miles north-east of the centre. Nearby you’ll also find Northwick Park Hospital (less than half a mile north-east) and Kodak Museum (1.5 miles north-west).
Flats, blocks and rented homes
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 tell us about it during the design visit.
If your flat is leasehold, check your lease before fixing furniture to the walls. Some leases need the building owner’s consent for alterations, which is worth sorting early. We cannot give advice on leases.
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Before and after fitting day
New paint needs time to cure fully, so go gently with it for a while. After that, a few simple habits help:
- Think about how your household uses coats and shoes
- Think about handles and how the fronts will look from the hall
- Tell us about parking during the design visit
- Measure your vacuum cleaner and ironing board
If the hallway is being decorated afterwards, ask your decorator to protect the fronts. Masking tape can lift fresh paint, so it shouldn’t go on the new finish. Should you have a question about the storage, use our contact form and we will help.
Keep the way to the meter or fuse board clear. You may need to reach them yourself in a hurry, so leave the path open. With its own door, the meter stays in reach without much effort.
FAQs: under-stairs storage in Northwick Park
My home in Northwick Park is a flat. How do you get the furniture in?
At the design visit, we measure the way in along with the room itself. The furniture is made in sections that fit the stairs and lift, and put together in the room. If your building has rules on lift booking or working hours, or your lease needs consent for alterations, it’s worth checking those early.
Do I need permission for fitted furniture in a conservation area?
Not normally. Conservation area controls are largely about how buildings look from outside, so fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission. If your home is listed, internal works that affect its character can need listed building consent, so check with the council first. The council’s planning or conservation team can tell you if in doubt.
Who chooses the colour?
The choice is yours, and we agree it with you before the furniture is finished. Whichever finish you pick, it’s in the colour you’ve chosen.
How many days does the fitting take?
That depends on how much storage you want under the stairs, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. We plan it once we have measured the room.
Do you work on Saturdays?
Yes, Saturdays are possible by prior arrangement. Just mention it when you get in touch, and we will see what we can do.
What finishes do you offer?
There are two ways to finish it: by spray or by hand. Spray painting gives a smooth, even finish, and hand painting is easy to touch up.
From workshop to your room
The last stage of the day is the finish. With a spray finish from the workshop, there’s normally only filling and touching up to do in the room; if you chose hand painting, that can be done in the room once the furniture is fitted. The finish is always the one agreed in your quote. Newer homes often have stud walls, so on fitting day heavy pieces go into the studs or stand on the floor. Floors are protected throughout, as many newer homes have finished floors that mark easily.
- You tell us about the stairs and what you’d like to store, like coats, shoes or the vacuum cleaner.
- We measure the space, the slope and the floor, and note any meters or fuse boards, because they must stay accessible.
- The design is agreed and a quote in writing follows, with the finish set out.
- Every part is made at our workshop, ready for a spray-painted or hand-painted finish. We use moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- The storage is fitted, scribed to the stairs and checked with you.
Before we arrive
- Point out meters, boilers and fuse boards near the furniture
- Book any lift and let the concierge or building manager know
- Move anything in the hall or on the stairs out of the way
Getting a quote
It is 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 sizes. To send them over, use our contact form, and we will arrange a design visit.