Hammersmith and Fulham · London
Sands End Under-Stairs Storage
Pull-out drawers, cupboards and coat storage under the stairs, for homes in Sands End. We make each piece in our workshop and fit it in your home, with a spray or hand-painted finish.
- A meter or fuse board buried behind clutter
- An under-stairs cupboard full of clutter
- Nowhere to put coats, shoes and bags
Under-stairs storage for your home in Sands End
About our under-stairs storage in Sands End
Some under-stairs spaces are open enough for a small desk. A built-in desk with shelving and drawers can turn the space into a quiet corner for paperwork. Any new socket or light there is for your electrician, and we leave room and a route for the cable. We will look at whether it suits your stairs when we visit in Sands End. If you are living with a tired under-stairs cupboard that stands out and the low end of the space going to waste, that is what under-stairs cupboards are for, made from MDF made to resist moisture and birch plywood, then spray-painted or hand-painted.
Without a loft, a flat’s storage has to come from the hall, the recesses and the rooms. Around Sands End, where most households live in purpose-built flats, that’s worth thinking about early. Shallow cupboards and seats with storage add a lot without taking much floor.
Everything we agree during the design visit goes into the written quote: the layout and internal fittings, the materials and the finish. If you’d like to change anything, it’s easier before the furniture is made.
- Where
- Sands End (SW11, SW6, SW10)
- Area
- Hammersmith and Fulham
- Prices
- Quoted for your room
- How it starts
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Where it’s made
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Made from
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Working days
- Monday to Friday; Saturdays by arrangement
- Contact
- Send us a message
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
Honest limits
Damp treatment and building work are for other specialists, and there are a few other limits too:
- Gas pipework, which needs a Gas Safe registered engineer
- Plastering and decorating around the new storage
- Moving a gas or electricity meter, which is arranged through your energy supplier
If in doubt, you can send us a few details through our contact form and describe the room before you arrange a visit. Our process from visit to fitting.
What goes into it
- Coat hooks and shoe shelves
- Pull-out drawers
- Hand-painted finish
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Birch plywood
- Spray-painted finish
Places near Sands End
Also in Sands End
Flats, leases and landlords
If your flat is leasehold, check your lease before fixing furniture to the walls. Some leases need the building owner’s consent for alterations, and that is best sorted before fitting day. We cannot advise on your lease.
Blocks of flats often have their own rules on lift bookings, entry systems and times for trades. Let us know about them at the design visit, and we will plan the fitting around them.
What it costs
The price reflects the time and materials the job needs. The main factors are:
- How easy it is to get the furniture into the room
- Tricky walls, sloping ceilings and uneven floors
- Spray painting or hand painting
- How many doors and drawers there are
In London, parking can affect the price. Much of London is covered by controlled parking zones, so a van may need a visitor permit, a paid bay or a bay suspension. Tell us about parking at the measuring visit, so it can be planned.
What we need to know
What helps most when you first contact us:
- Approximate measurements of the space
- Anything in the way, like radiators, sockets, switches, a boiler or meters
- Whether it is a house or a flat, and if there are stairs or a lift
- The postcode, so we can plan the visit
Getting a quote starts with a few details: which room it is, rough sizes and a couple of pictures if you can take them. When you’re ready, get in touch through our contact form. We’ll then arrange a design visit and follow it with a written quote.
How fitting works for under-stairs storage
Furniture made in a workshop still has to meet the room it’s going into, and that happens on fitting day. 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 your quote sets out the fitting days. For a flat, the stairs, landings, lift and doors are measured not just the room: under-stairs cupboards are made in sections sized for each of them. Mansion block lifts can be small, and some blocks have no lift at all, which the design allows for.
- 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 have discussed.
- Your storage is made at our workshop and painted to the colour you chose. We use moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- The storage is fitted in your home and checked, drawer by drawer. Any meters stay easy to reach.
How to prepare
- Tell us about any meters, fuse boards or boilers in the area
- Keep pets in another room while we work
- Let us know about parking near your home
Getting a quote
If you already have something in mind, tell us; 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 arrange a visit, get in touch through our contact form.
Advice
Sands End homes and under-stairs storage
Homes built before 1919 make up about 31% of the housing in the streets around Sands End, with about 29% built since 2000, in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. That matters for under-stairs cupboards, as the build era decides whether a wall is solid brick, lath and plaster, block or plasterboard. Part of Sands End is in a conservation area, according to Historic England’s records. Fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission in a conservation area, as the controls are mostly concerned with the outside of buildings. If in doubt, the council’s planning team can confirm. The ULEZ (Ultra Low Emission Zone) now covers the whole of London, Hammersmith and Fulham included. It applies to the vans that deliver and fit furniture in Sands End, as it does anywhere else in London. We go through parking and access at the design visit.
Carlyle's House, about 0.9 miles north-east, is one of the historic houses in the wider area. If your own home is a period one, pull-out drawers can reach right to the back of a deep under-stairs space. For families living near Falconbrook Primary School, under-stairs cupboards can give school bags, shoes and sports kit a proper home. If you live near Imperial Park, under-stairs cupboards can be designed to hold outdoor kit, from walking boots to picnic things.
Sands End is part of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, about 1 mile west of Fulham. Sands End is part of the area we cover. In Hammersmith and Fulham, Sands End is one of the places we cover.
Design visits and fitting in SW11, SW6 and SW10 work the same way as everywhere else we cover. Streets in the area include York Road, Lots Road and Hyde Lane, and homes on each of them are within our area for under-stairs storage. We also cover the places around Sands End: Chelsea Harbour (1 mile north), Walham Green (1 mile north-west), World's End (1 mile north), Clapham Junction (1 mile south-east) and Little Chelsea (1 mile north). We also make under-stairs storage in nearby places such as West Kensington (2 miles north-west), North End (2 miles north-west), Hammersmith (3 miles north-west), Shepherd's Bush (3 miles north-west), Brackenbury Village (3 miles north-west) and White City (3 miles north-west).
What’s near Sands End
Around Sands End, we cover homes near Natural History Museum Library and Archives, Raven Inn and Chelsea Academy. Sands End has its own railway station: Imperial Wharf station. A little further out are Southside Wandsworth (1.4 miles south-west) and Battersea General Hospital (0.7 miles east). Green spaces nearby include Battersea Park Lake.
FAQs: under-stairs storage in Sands End
Can parking be tricky on fitting day in Sands End?
It can be, as controlled parking zones cover much of inner London. A van may need a visitor permit, a pay-and-display bay or a suspended bay, which the council arranges, often with notice. It helps to let us know about parking at the design visit, so we can plan the day around it.
I live near Imperial Wharf station. Is that in your area?
Yes, homes across Hammersmith and Fulham and the rest of London are within the area we cover. To get started, you can send us a few details through our contact form with some details about the room, and tell us about parking and access at the same time.
Do I need to be at home on fitting day?
We need someone to let us in. It also helps to have someone around at the end, so we can go over the finished furniture together.
How is under-stairs storage priced?
The price comes in a written quote, worked out from the measurements and the design you choose. 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.
Which works best under the stairs, drawers or cupboards?
It depends on the shape of the space and what you want to store. Drawers make the low end useful, because you pull the back of the space to you. Cupboards suit the tall end, for coats or a vacuum cleaner.
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.
Before and after fitting day
Fitted furniture is part of the room, so it is worth looking after. A few pointers help:
- Let us know about parking near your home
- Think about handles and how the fronts will look from the hall
- 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. It’s worth keeping a note of the colour so any touch-ups match. A spray-painted finish is smooth and even, and small marks often clean off with a damp cloth.
Every so often, look at the handles and hinges. Tightening a screw early stops a small looseness becoming a problem. If a drawer stops running smoothly, fill in our short enquiry form and describe it.