Havering · London
Rush Green Under-Stairs Storage
Pull-out drawers, cupboards and coat storage under the stairs, for homes in Rush Green. Every piece is made in our workshop and fitted in your home, with a spray or hand-painted finish.
- A tired under-stairs cupboard that stands out
- A fuse board that is hard to get to
- Wanting a quiet corner for paperwork
Under-stairs storage in Rush Green
How we make under-stairs storage for Rush Green
Where the space under the stairs opens onto a room, a compact desk can fit beneath it. A built-in desk with shelving and drawers can turn the space into a quiet corner for paperwork. If you’d like a socket or a light, your electrician fits it and we plan the furniture around it. It’s worth talking through at the design visit in Rush Green. We make under-stairs cupboards from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, finished by spray or by hand, and people most often get in touch about a sloping corner nobody can reach and stairs open to a room, with clutter on show.
Landings in houses from between the wars are often roomier than in a Victorian terrace, and that space can take shallow fitted storage. If yours is one of the interwar houses, semis or detached homes that make up much of the housing around Rush Green, it is worth looking up as well as down. If a boiler or cylinder sits there, it keeps its clearances and access.
Everything we agree at the measuring visit goes into the written quote: the layout, what goes inside, the materials used and the finish. If you’d like to change anything, it is easier before the furniture is made.
- Where
- Rush Green (RM7, RM1, RM12)
- Area
- Havering
- Cost
- Quoted for your room
- First step
- Design visit, then a quote in writing
- Making
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Made from
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- When we fit
- Monday to Friday; Saturdays by arrangement
- Contact
- Send us a message
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
When you need someone else
Damp treatment and building work are for other specialists, so these points are worth knowing:
- Painting the hallway walls and ceiling
- Gas pipework, which needs a Gas Safe engineer
- Moving a gas or electricity meter, which is arranged through your energy supplier
Not sure whether your space suits under-stairs storage? You can drop us a line using the contact form and we will tell you before you arrange a visit. How it works.
What it is made from
- Coat hooks and shoe shelves
- Birch plywood
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Pull-out drawers
- Hand-painted finish
- Spray-painted finish
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Questions from Rush Green
Do you make under-stairs storage for homes in Rush Green?
Yes, Rush Green is within the area we cover, which takes in all of Havering and the rest of London. The first step is a design visit, where we measure and talk through the design, and then we send a quote.
Is parking a problem for fitting in Rush Green?
It depends on the street, as many London boroughs run controlled parking zones. Depending on the street, a visitor permit, a paid bay or a bay suspension through the council may be needed, and suspensions often need notice. Let us know what parking is near you at the design visit, so we can plan the day around it.
Can you fit furniture to uneven walls?
Uneven walls are normal in older London homes, and the furniture is made to deal with them. Edges are scribed to the wall, and adjustable feet or a plinth bring the furniture up to level.
What do you do at the measuring visit?
We measure the room, check how level the walls and floors are and go through the design with you. We will also ask about access and parking, and a written quote follows.
What if the wall is cold or damp?
It can be done with some care: leaving ventilation behind and inside helps stop condensation. Damp treatment isn’t something we do, so any damp needs sorting first.
How much does under-stairs storage cost?
There’s no price list: each design is priced in writing after we’ve seen the space. 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.
From workshop to your room
Before anything is fixed, we set the furniture level. Where the floor slopes, we bring the furniture up to level on adjustable feet or a plinth. Only then is it fixed to the wall, with fixings chosen to suit brick, lath and plaster or plasterboard. If you have a driveway, it can make unloading simpler, so let us know during the design visit. Otherwise, a visitor permit or a nearby bay helps. Doorways, stairs and floors are covered on the way in.
- You get in touch and let us know what’s under the stairs now, including any gas meter, electricity meter or fuse board.
- At the design visit we measure the space and plan the storage around the meters, so readers and engineers can still reach them.
- A written quote follows, setting out the design, materials and finish.
- The storage is built in our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, with access to the meters planned in.
- We fit it in your home, scribed to the stairs and the walls, with a spray-painted or hand-painted finish.
Before we arrive
- Empty the space we’ll be working in
- Get any new sockets or wiring done by your electrician before fitting day
- Tell us about any meters, fuse boards or boilers in the area
Starting with a design visit
We quote once we’ve seen the room. At the visit, we measure, look at the walls and floors and go through the design with you, and the written quote comes after. There’s no price list: each design is priced in writing after we’ve seen the space. To book a design visit, use our contact form.
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Tips worth knowing
A few practical points help before and after fitting day. Here are some things worth bearing in mind:
- Think about what you’ll keep in each drawer
- Bring paint colours you like to the design visit
- Note the size of anything tall you want to store
- Check whether your meters or fuse board are under the stairs
If you chose a hand-painted finish, small marks can be touched in. Keep a little of the paint, or a note of the colour, for later. Spray-painted fronts have a smooth, even finish that wipes clean.
Every so often, look at the handles and hinges. 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.
Rush Green homes and under-stairs storage
The biggest shares of homes in the streets around Rush Green were built between 1919 and 1939 (about 45%) and since 2000 (about 24%), in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. 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 Rush Green include Church of St Andrew (Grade II), about 0.6 miles north. For a listed home, works inside that affect its character may need listed building consent from the council, for example removing or fixing into original panelling. Check with the council’s conservation officer first. Terraced houses are home to about 31% of households in the area around Rush Green, the 2021 Census shows. Under-stairs cupboards in terraces often house the gas meter, electricity meter or fuse board, so storage is designed to keep them reachable.
Living in a block of flats near Romford station? Then the route in is measured not just the room, and the sections are sized to fit it. If you live in a period home close to St Augustine of Canterbury Church, the cupboard door under a period staircase can be kept or replaced to match the new storage.
Rush Green is within the London Borough of Havering, about 1 mile north-east of Romford. Design visits and fitting in Rush Green can be on a Saturday, by arrangement. In Havering, Rush Green is one of the places we cover, and the borough has 22 places on our list.
Every home in RM7, RM1 and RM12 is within our area for under-stairs storage, from the main roads to the quieter streets. If your home is on a street such as Crow Lane, Union Road and Maldon Road, or close by, we can arrange a design visit for under-stairs storage. Other places close to Rush Green include Romford (1 mile north-east), Becontree Heath (1 mile west), Chadwell Heath (1 mile north-west), Elm Park (2 miles south-east) and Becontree (2 miles south-west). Other parts of Havering we cover include Hornchurch (2 miles east), Gallows Corner (3 miles north-east), Collier Row (2 miles north), Rainham (3 miles south), Upminster (3 miles east) and Ardleigh Green (2 miles north-east).
What’s near Rush Green
Around Rush Green, we cover homes near St. Edward's Church of England School, St Edward's Church of England Academy and The Moon & Stars pub and the streets around them. Rush Green’s nearest station is Romford station, about 0.7 miles north-east of the centre. Well-known places in the area include Queen's Hospital (a few minutes’ walk north-east) and The Brewery (0.7 miles north-east). Green spaces nearby include The Chase Nature Reserve.
Pricing under-stairs storage in Rush Green
We quote each job after the design visit, because no two rooms are the same. These are the things that affect it:
- Stairs, lifts and the route to the room
- Parking near your home
- The internal fittings
- Whether you choose a spray or hand-painted finish
Awkward rooms take more time: uneven walls, sloping floors and angled ceilings all add scribing and cutting on site. The quote allows for it, written once we have measured up.
Helping us understand the room
What helps most when you first contact us:
- Anything fixed to the wall that the furniture needs to work around
- Examples of the look you are after
- Whether it is a house or a flat, and if there are stairs or a lift
- A few pictures of the space, taken from the doorway and from each corner
To make a start, message us from the contact page and tell us which room you have in mind and roughly what you’d like. We then arrange a design visit to measure and discuss the design, and a written quote follows.
Why people ask for under-stairs storage in Rush Green
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.
Some of the things we’re asked to solve include:
- Needing a compact spot for a laptop
- A dark, wasted space under the stairs
- The low end of the space going to waste
- A vacuum cleaner that has nowhere to go
Close to Harrow Lodge Park? Living near green space often means muddy boots, bikes and outdoor kit, and under-stairs cupboards can give those things a place.
Before you choose who makes it
- Whether the quote follows a visit to your home
- How parking will work on your street
- Do they scribe the furniture to the walls?
- Whether they can show you real projects they’ve done