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Under-Stairs Storage in St Ann's
Under-stairs storage in St Ann's: pull-out drawers, cupboards and coat storage under the stairs. Every piece is made at our workshop and fitted in your home, with a spray or hand-painted finish.
- A fuse board that is hard to get to
- A hallway crowded with coats and shoes
- An old cupboard door that does not suit the hall
Under-stairs storage for your home in St Ann's
How fitting works for under-stairs storage
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. Either way, the finish is the one set out in your quote. Where a period house has been split into flats, the way in often goes through shared parts, so it helps to let neighbours know about fitting day. The sections are sized for the narrowest point on the route. Saturday fitting is possible by prior arrangement.
- It starts with a few details from you about the space.
- At the design visit we measure and plan how you’ll use the space.
- A written quote follows.
- We make the drawers and cupboards in our workshop from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood.
- We fit it in your home with a spray-painted or hand-painted finish, and run through each drawer and door with you.
- Treat the fresh paintwork gently while it cures; a hand-painted finish is easy to touch up later.
How to prepare
- Take anything hanging off the wall we’re fitting to
- Keep pets out of the room and the hallway
- Clear the hallway and stairs so the sections can come through
Getting a quote
Rough sizes are fine at the start. We measure everything properly during the design visit, along with the walls, floor and ceiling. To arrange it, tell us about the room on our contact form and let us know about the room. The written quote follows the visit.
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How we make under-stairs storage for St Ann's
The space under a staircase is often the hardest-working spot in a house, and the least organised. Our under-stairs storage is planned around what you need to store, with pull-out drawers, cupboards or a combination of the two. In St Ann's, as everywhere we work, it begins with a visit to measure and plan. If you’re living with nowhere to put coats, shoes and bags and a staircase with untidy space beneath it, that is what under-stairs cupboards are for, made from moisture-resistant MDF and strong birch plywood, with a painted finish.
With a large share of homes around St Ann's built before 1919, under-stairs cupboards in older terraces often house the meters or the fuse board. Those have to stay reachable, so any storage is designed around them. Bays and sash windows in period houses are natural spots for a window seat.
We write quotes in plain English. They say what will be made, what it is made from and how it will be finished, all taken from the design visit.
- Place
- St Ann's (N15, N4, N16)
- Borough
- Haringey
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- First step
- We visit, measure, then quote
- Where it’s made
- Workshop-made, then fitted
- Made from
- Painted MDF and birch ply
- Fitting days
- Monday to Friday; Saturdays by arrangement
- Contact
- The contact form
- Last updated
- 27 October 2026
FAQs: under-stairs storage in St Ann's
Do you cover homes near Seven Sisters station?
Yes. We cover all of Haringey and the rest of London. To get started, you can fill in our short enquiry form with a few details about the room.
Can you make under-stairs storage for a home in St Ann's?
Yes, St Ann's is within the area we cover, which takes in all of Haringey and the rest of London. We start with a design visit to measure the room and talk through what you need, followed by a quote.
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 is not something we do, so any damp needs sorting first.
What do you do at the measuring visit?
It’s a chance to measure properly and talk through what you’d like. We look at the walls, floors and anything the furniture has to work around, and the written quote comes afterwards.
Do I need permission in a conservation area?
Normally not. Inside a house, fitted furniture does not normally need planning permission. If the building is listed, works affecting its character can require listed building consent, so ask the council’s conservation officer.
Which works best under the stairs, drawers or cupboards?
Many designs use both. Drawers make the most of the low, deep end of the space, and a cupboard at the tall end handles taller things. We talk it through during the design visit.
How we price under-stairs storage
There is no set price, because there is no set room. What affects it comes down to:
- Parking and unloading on your street
- How easy it is to get the furniture into the room
- Doors and drawers, and how many
- The internal fittings
Access to the room makes a difference too. Several flights of stairs, a small lift or a narrow hall can mean smaller sections and more carrying, and that’s part of the price. The price comes in a written quote, worked out from the measurements and the design you choose.
Getting in touch
A little information at the start saves time later. If you can, send:
- What kind of home it is, and which floor the room is on
- Anything in the way, like radiators, sockets, switches, a boiler or meters
- A few photos of the space, taken from the doorway and from each corner
- What the furniture needs to hold
We quote once we’ve seen the room. We measure the space, check the walls and floors and discuss what you’d like, then send a quote in writing. Every piece is quoted for your room after the design visit. To book a design visit, get in touch through our contact form.
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Under-stairs storage in St Ann's: local notes
The biggest shares of homes in the neighbourhood around St Ann's were built before 1919 (about 54%) and since 2000 (about 17%), going by the Valuation Office Agency’s 2025 council tax figures. Knowing roughly when a home was built helps, because walls and fixings change from one era to the next. Within a mile of the centre of St Ann's, 5 conservation areas are recorded by Historic England. England has around 10,000 in all, and their controls are largely about how buildings look from outside, so fitted furniture inside a house does not normally need planning permission. Each London borough runs its own parking controls, and Haringey is no exception. Where a street in St Ann's is controlled, a van may need a visitor permit, a paid bay or a bay suspension from the council. It helps to tell us about parking at the design visit.
The wider area includes historic houses such as Bruce Castle, about 1.3 miles north. 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. Living in a block of flats near Seven Sisters station? Then under-stairs cupboards are made in sections sized for the stairs, landings and lift, so measuring the route matters as much as measuring the room. If your home is one of the older houses near St Ann's Church, the triangle under an old staircase is often deeper than it looks.
St Ann's is about 1 mile north-east of Tottenham, within the London Borough of Haringey. Anywhere in St Ann's, the process is the same: we visit and measure, send a written quote, make the furniture in our workshop and fit it. Our Haringey coverage includes St Ann's and the places around it.
We work across N15, N4 and N16. If your home is on a street like Ida Road, Elmar Road and Grove Road, or close by, we can visit to measure up for under-stairs storage. Nearby, we also make under-stairs storage in West Green (1 mile north-west), Seven Sisters (1 mile east), South Tottenham (1 mile east), Harringay (1 mile west) and Tottenham Green (1 mile north-east). Across the rest of Haringey, our area takes in Wood Green (2 miles north-west), Crouch End (2 miles west), Bowes Park (2 miles north-west), Bounds Green (2 miles north-west), Highgate (3 miles west) and Muswell Hill (3 miles west).
Local landmarks in St Ann's
In St Ann's, that includes homes near Moselle Upper School, Park View School and No.8 Seven Sisters pub. There’s a railway station in St Ann's itself: Seven Sisters station. A little further out are City of London Maternity Hospital (1.7 miles south-west) and The Mall Wood Green (1.4 miles north-west). Green spaces nearby include Railway Fields.
Is bespoke worth it?
If you only need a hook or two and a basic shelf, an off-the-shelf option may be enough. Bespoke storage makes sense when you want every part of the space working, not just the easy part. At the design visit, we can talk honestly about which approach suits your stairs. Standard furniture is drawn for modern rooms, so its proportions can look odd in a tall period room, whereas fitted pieces can pick up the room’s height and mouldings.
Every room is priced on its own, because the size, the layout and the finish all vary. A spray finish and a hand-painted finish involve different work, and that shows in the price. You’ll see the figure in your written quote, after the design visit.
Why work with us in St Ann's
- Made for your room, not a standard size
- Made in moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood
- We visit, measure and go through the design before we quote
- Edges scribed to follow your walls
See bespoke vs off-the-shelf or what to look for in a quote.
Before and after fitting day
These points come up often when people plan under-stairs storage. They help before and after fitting:
- Consider the colour of the hall, the stairs and the skirting
- Make a list of what you want to store before the design visit
- Look for meters, a fuse board or pipes before we visit
- Let us know about parking near your home
A hand-painted finish is easy to touch up if it gets marked. Keep a little of the paint, or a note of the colour, for later. 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, tell us about the room on our contact form and describe it.
Materials and finishes
Plinths and scribe strips
Walls are rarely flat and floors rarely level, in older homes particularly. We use scribe strips at the walls and a plinth at the floor to take up the difference. The result is neat, even lines all round.
Doors and drawer fronts
Doors and drawer fronts are made from moisture-resistant MDF and painted to your colour. Their edges are cut to follow the angle of the stairs, keeping the lines neat.