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Under-stairs storage in South Croydon, Croydon
Pull-out drawers, cupboards and coat storage under the stairs, designed for your room in South Croydon. After a design visit and a quote in writing, it is built in our workshop and fitted in your home.
- Nowhere to put coats, shoes and bags
- Space under the stairs that is hard to use
- Wanting a quiet corner for paperwork
Under-stairs storage in South Croydon
Pricing under-stairs storage in South Croydon
What you pay depends on:
- Spray painting or hand painting
- Stairs, lifts and the route to the room
- The internal fittings
- How square the room is
How it’s painted is part of the price: spray painting is done in the workshop, while hand painting can be done on site. The written quote reflects your choice, along with the size and fittings.
Getting in touch
What helps most when you first contact us:
- Whether it’s a house or a flat, and if there are stairs or a lift
- What the furniture needs to hold
- Any ideas or images you’ve saved
- Where you live, with the postcode
The design visit is where every quote starts. We measure the room properly, check how the walls and floors run and go through the design with you. Afterwards, we send a quote in writing. To book one, get in touch through our contact form.
Under-stairs storage in South Croydon
When the hall is tight, the space under the stairs is often the only place left for coats, shoes and bags. A hanging section, shoe drawers and a shelf for keys keep everything off the floor. With a spray-painted or hand-painted finish, it sits quietly in the hall. For a home in South Croydon, it can make the front door feel far calmer. Typical reasons to get in touch are struggling to reach the gas or electricity meter and storage that doesn’t match the hallway, and the answer is made at our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, finished by spray or by hand.
Older homes like many around South Croydon have floors and ceilings that slope, and a large share of the homes around South Croydon date from then. Under-stairs cupboards are scribed to the walls and levelled on site so doors, lids and drawers run true. Original skirting and mouldings are met neatly.
Where other trades are needed, for example an electrician to move a socket, we point that out. Our quote covers the carpentry: the design, the materials and the finish.
- Location
- South Croydon (CR2, CR8, CR0)
- Area
- Croydon
- Prices
- Quoted for your room
- To begin
- Design visit, then a quote in writing
- Where it is made
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Boards and paint
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- When we fit
- Monday to Friday; Saturdays by arrangement
- Contact
- The contact form
- Page updated
- 27 October 2026
Neighbourhoods near South Croydon
What else we make in South Croydon
Questions we are often asked
My home in South Croydon is a period house with walls that aren’t straight. Is that a problem?
Yes. Walls in older houses are rarely flat or square, and floors are often out of level, so each piece is scribed to follow the wall and set level on a plinth or adjustable feet. We also work around skirting boards, picture rails and cornices. Fixings are chosen for the wall, whether solid brick or lath and plaster.
Can parking be tricky on fitting day in South Croydon?
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 during the design visit, so we can plan the day around it.
Can you match the storage to my hallway?
Yes. We paint the storage in the colour you choose, by spray or by hand. You can match it to the walls, the banisters or the skirting, so it looks like part of the house.
Can under-stairs storage work around the fuse board?
Yes. Meters and fuse boards often sit under the stairs, and they need to stay accessible. At the design visit we measure around them and leave a clear way in. We don’t move meters, so the storage works around their current position.
Can you come on a Saturday?
Yes, we can arrange Saturdays. Let us know when you first get in touch, and we will see what we can do.
Can you make under-stairs storage for a home in South Croydon?
Yes. Our area is the whole of London: every borough and the City of London, South Croydon included.
Under-stairs storage in South Croydon: local notes
The biggest shares of homes in the neighbourhood around South Croydon were built before 1919 (about 52%) and between 1919 and 1939 (about 17%), according to Valuation Office Agency council tax figures (2025). That matters for under-stairs cupboards, as the build era decides whether a wall is solid brick, lath and plaster, block or plasterboard. 3 conservation areas have at least part of their area within a mile of the centre of South Croydon. Historic England says England has around 10,000, and the controls mainly cover the outside of buildings. More than half of the homes in the streets around South Croydon (about 52%) were built before 1919, in the VOA’s 2025 council tax stock figures. 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 one of the older houses near Church of St Augustine, under-stairs cupboards are scribed to walls and stair strings that are rarely straight. If you live near Duppas Hill, under-stairs cupboards can be designed to hold outdoor kit, from walking boots to picnic things. Living in a block of flats near Sanderstead station? Then the route in is measured as well as the room, and the sections are sized to fit it.
South Croydon is in the London Borough of Croydon, about 3 miles north of Thornton Heath. Anywhere in South Croydon, it works the same way: a design visit, a written quote, furniture made in our workshop and fitting in your home. Our Croydon coverage includes South Croydon, along with the rest of the borough.
In CR2, CR8 and CR0, the process is the same as anywhere else in London. Streets in the area include Edgar Road, Bynes Road and Grange Road, and homes on each of them are within our area for under-stairs storage. Other places close to South Croydon include Croydon (1 mile north), Coombe (1 mile north-east), Sanderstead (1 mile south-east), Riddlesdown (2 miles south) and Kenley (2 miles south). Across the rest of Croydon, our area takes in Thornton Heath (3 miles north), Coulsdon (3 miles south-west), Purley (2 miles south-west), Broad Green (2 miles north), Upper Norwood (5 miles north) and Selhurst (3 miles north).
Around South Croydon
In South Croydon, that includes homes near Rutherford School, Harris Academy Purley and The Purley Arms, among other places. There’s a railway station in South Croydon itself: Sanderstead station. Other landmarks nearby include St George's Walk (1.4 miles north) and Purley War Memorial Hospital (1.2 miles south-west). Not far away are Roundshaw Downs.
What happens on fitting day
You will not need to do much on the day. Someone needs to let us in, and the room should already be cleared, as agreed during the design visit. After that, it is over to us: the floors are covered, the sections come in and the fitting begins. How long the fitting takes depends on the size of the space and the design, and your quote sets out the fitting days. Where a period house has been split into flats, the way in often goes through shared parts, so neighbours may appreciate a note before fitting day. Each section is sized for the tightest door or turn. Saturdays can be arranged.
- First you tell us about the stairs and what you’d like to store beneath them.
- At the design visit we measure under the stairs and plan the drawers and doors with you, keeping the meters and fuse board easy to reach.
- You receive a quote in writing for the storage we’ve discussed.
- Your storage is made at our workshop and painted to the colour you chose. We use moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- We fit it in your home, scribed to the stairs and the walls. Any meters stay easy to reach.
Preparing the room
- Tell us about parking near your home
- If you live in a block, book the lift and tell the building manager
- Keep pets in another room while we work
How to get a quote
If you already have something in mind, tell us; if you don’t, that is fine, and we can work it out together. The design is talked through at the visit, once we’ve measured, and the written quote that follows sets it out. To arrange a visit, drop us a line using the contact form.
Related advice
Could you do it yourself?
Off-the-shelf cupboards come in fixed sizes, so there’s often a strip of wasted space at the side or above. Furniture we make is built to the room’s own sizes, so it can use the full height and width.
Long shelves are where off-the-shelf often struggles. Span, depth and the weight on it decide whether a shelf sags, so a long run needs a thicker shelf, a stiffening lip or a support. We design shelves with that in mind.
Tips worth knowing
Painted fitted furniture is easy to look after. A few things help it stay looking good:
- Make room so the whole space can be measured
- Note the things that need a home under the stairs
- Let us know if the hall is being decorated
- Let us know about parking near your home
Decorating around the storage is for your decorator, and it’s best to protect the new paintwork while they work. Tape on fresh paint can pull it off, so keep it away from the doors and drawers. If anything isn’t right, tell us about the room on our contact form and we will talk it through.
Wet coats and shoes can mark paint and leave damp in a closed cupboard. It’s best to let them dry before closing the door on them, and leave the door open for a while after a wet day if the cupboard feels damp.
How it’s made
Doors and drawer fronts
What you see of the storage is mostly the doors and drawer fronts. We make them plain or panelled, with handles to suit the room. Their tops follow the angle of the stairs.
Plinths and scribe strips
We trim scribe strips to the exact line of the wall. They help the storage look as though it was always there. At floor level, the plinth hides any slope in the floor.