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Under-stairs storage in Seven Kings, Redbridge
We make under-stairs storage in moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood for homes in Seven Kings. Each piece is finished by spray or by hand, in the colour you choose.
- A sloping corner nobody can reach
- A vacuum cleaner that has nowhere to go
- Coats and shoes piling up in the hall
Under-stairs storage designed for your room
Why people ask for under-stairs storage in Seven Kings
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:
- Storage that does not match the hallway
- A dark, wasted space under the stairs
- Coats and shoes piling up in the hall
- Needing a compact spot for a laptop
If your children go to Downshall Primary School or a school nearby, under-stairs cupboards can be planned around what a family needs to keep, from coats and bags to sports kit.
Before you choose who makes it
- Whether the quote says what the furniture is made from
- Have they measured the stairs, lift and doorways?
- Real projects you can actually look at
- Whether they measure the room themselves
Under-stairs storage in Seven Kings: what you get
Pull-out drawers make the most of the low, deep end of the space. Rather than reaching into the dark, you pull the drawer towards you and see what’s inside. Cupboards suit the taller end, where coats can hang and a vacuum cleaner can stand. A mix of drawers and cupboards is often the best use of the space. If you are living with a staircase with untidy space beneath it and a sloping corner nobody can reach, under-stairs cupboards made from birch plywood and moisture-resistant MDF with a spray-painted or hand-painted finish can solve it.
Where original shutters, doors or panelling survive, they’re worth designing around. Around Seven Kings, where homes from before 1919 make up a large share, fitted storage can be designed to sit alongside them. Door styles can be chosen to suit the age of the house, and painted to match. For a listed home, fixing into original joinery can need consent, so check first.
The quote names the materials: moisture-resistant MDF, birch plywood or both, depending on the design. It also says how the furniture will be finished: spray painted or hand painted.
- Place
- Seven Kings (IG3, IG2, IG1)
- Area
- Redbridge
- Prices
- Quoted for your room
- First step
- A design visit: we measure and talk it through
- Where it is made
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Boards and paint
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- Working days
- Monday to Friday; Saturdays by arrangement
- Get in touch
- Our contact form
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
Questions from Seven Kings
My home in Seven Kings is a period house with walls that are not straight. Is that a problem?
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.
Do you make under-stairs storage for homes in Seven Kings?
Yes. We cover all of Redbridge and the rest of London, and Seven Kings is part of that. The first step is a design visit, where we measure and talk through the design, and then we send a quote.
Can you fit furniture on an external wall?
It needs a little planning: ventilation behind and inside the furniture helps avoid condensation and mould. Damp treatment isn’t something we do, so any damp needs sorting first.
How long does it take to fit under-stairs storage?
How long fitting takes depends on the shape of the space and the number of drawers and doors, and your quote sets out the fitting days. Because everything is built in our workshop, the work in your home is the fitting itself. We keep the hallway as clear as we can while we work.
What happens during the design visit?
We measure the space and discuss the design, materials and finish. We look at the walls, floors and anything the furniture has to work around, and the written quote comes afterwards.
Does fitted furniture need planning permission?
Not normally. Conservation area controls are mainly about the outside of buildings, and furniture inside a house doesn’t normally need it. Listed buildings are different: check with the council’s conservation officer first.
Made for the room, or bought in a box?
Off-the-shelf units are made for flat walls and square corners, but the space under a staircase rarely offers either. A ready-made unit tends to leave gaps at the slope and wasted space at the back. Storage made for the space follows the angle of the stairs and uses its full depth. It is a bigger investment than a flat-pack unit, and the return is in the space it uses. Ready-made tall pieces have to be fixed to the wall for safety, and in an older house that can mean fixing into brick or lath and plaster. With fitted pieces, the fixings are planned for the wall from the start.
No two rooms cost the same to furnish, because size, layout and finish change from job to job. Spray painting and hand painting are different processes, which affects the cost. You will see the figure in your written quote, after the design visit.
Why us?
- Saturday visits and fitting by arrangement
- Scribed to uneven walls
- Workshop-made and fitted by us
- More than 300 projects completed
Take a look at bespoke vs off-the-shelf or what a quote should include.
Also near Seven Kings
What else we make in Seven Kings
Seven Kings homes and under-stairs storage
Homes built before 1919 make up about 45% of the housing in the neighbourhood around Seven Kings, with about 28% built between 1919 and 1939, based on the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax data. Knowing roughly when a home was built helps, because walls and fixings change from one era to the next. More than a third of the homes in the neighbourhood around Seven Kings (about 45%) were built before 1919, based on the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax data. In terraced houses of that age, the space under the stairs often holds the gas meter, electricity meter or fuse board, and they must stay reachable. Since the zone was extended to the outer boroughs in August 2023, the whole of London has been inside the ULEZ. It applies to the vans that deliver and fit furniture in Seven Kings, as it does anywhere else in London. How the van gets to your door is planned at the measuring visit.
The wider area includes historic houses such as Valentines Mansion, about 1.4 miles west. If your own home is a period one, the cupboard door under a period staircase can be kept or replaced to match the new storage. For an older house near St John the Evangelist, under-stairs cupboards are scribed to walls and stair strings that are rarely straight.
Seven Kings is in the London Borough of Redbridge, about 4 miles north-west of Woodford. Anywhere in Seven Kings, it works the same way: a design visit, a quote in writing, furniture made at our workshop and fitting in your home. Across Redbridge, we cover Seven Kings and the places around it.
Every home in IG3, IG2 and IG1 is covered for under-stairs storage. You will find streets here like New Road, Lynn Road and High Road, and we cover homes on all of them for under-stairs storage. Seven Kings sits close to the A118. If your home is on one of them, tell us during the design visit, as some main roads have strict stopping rules. We also cover the places around Seven Kings: Newbury Park (1 mile north-west), Ilford (1 mile south-west), Gants Hill (1 mile north-west), Barkingside (1 mile north-west) and Cranbrook (1 mile west). We also make under-stairs storage in nearby places such as Woodford (4 miles north-west), Wanstead (3 miles west), South Woodford (4 miles north-west), Redbridge (2 miles west), Woodford Wells (4 miles north-west) and Monkhams (5 miles north-west).
Around Seven Kings
In Seven Kings, that includes homes near Palmer Catholic Academy, among other places. Seven Kings has its own railway station: Seven Kings station. Well-known places in the area include Redbridge Museum (1.2 miles south-west) and Goodmayes Hospital (0.8 miles north-east).
When is bespoke worth it?
Standard units come in set widths and heights, so there is normally 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.
A confident DIYer can manage simple shelves or a standard wardrobe in a square room. It gets harder with sloping ceilings, out-of-level floors and lath-and-plaster walls, where scribing and fixings that suit the wall are important.
What happens on fitting day
However carefully a piece is made in the workshop, it still has to meet the room, and fitting day is where that happens. Walls in older homes are rarely flat or square, so we scribe the edges by hand to follow the wall. How long the fitting itself takes depends on the shape of the space and the number of drawers and doors, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. Older London houses often have narrow hallways and tight turns on the stairs, so under-stairs cupboards are made in sections sized to get through. Floors, stairs and doorways are covered before anything is carried through.
- 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 made at 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.
Before we arrive
- Keep pets out of the room and the hallway
- Tell us about parking near your home
- Point out meters, boilers and fuse boards near the furniture
Starting with a design visit
Photos help us understand the room before we visit. Pictures of the whole wall, the corners and the ceiling line give us a good feel for the space, especially with rough measurements. To send them over, get in touch through our contact form, and we’ll suggest a time for a design visit.
Advice
Where other trades come in
Before you plan the job, it helps to know what we don’t do:
- Moving a gas or electricity meter, which is arranged through your energy supplier
- Painting the hallway walls and ceiling
- Moving gas pipes under the stairs
Not sure whether your space suits under-stairs storage? You can use our contact form and we will tell you. How a job runs, step by step.
Boards, parts and finishes
- Coat hooks and shoe shelves
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Birch plywood
- Spray-painted finish
- Pull-out drawers
- Hand-painted finish