Bromley · London
St Mary Cray Under-Stairs Storage
Under-stairs storage for your home in St Mary Cray: pull-out drawers, cupboards and coat storage under the stairs. We visit to measure and discuss the design, make the furniture in our workshop and fit it.
- A sloping corner nobody can reach
- A dark, wasted space under the stairs
- Wanting a quiet corner for paperwork
Need under-stairs storage in St Mary Cray?
Caring for painted furniture
These points come up often when people plan under-stairs storage. They’re worth knowing before and after fitting:
- Let us know if the hall is being decorated
- Bring paint colours you like to the design visit
- Note the size of anything tall you want to store
- Decide whether you’d like coats on hooks or on a rail
When you load the drawers, put the heaviest things low and towards the front. It helps the runners and keeps the storage working well. Shelves are made for the things you told us about at the measuring visit, so it’s worth keeping to that plan.
Closing drawers fully helps keep the runners and fronts in good order. A quick sort every so often stops drawers getting too heavy. Deal with any wet shoes or umbrellas before they mark the base.
About our under-stairs storage in St Mary Cray
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’re living with space under the stairs that’s hard to use and the low end of the space going to waste, under-stairs cupboards made from birch ply and moisture-resistant MDF, painted by hand or sprayed can solve it.
Around St Mary Cray, with interwar houses or semis making up much of the housing, the hallway may be wider than in a Victorian terrace, with room for a cupboard by the door. Bays at the front suit a seat with storage below, with a grille where there is a radiator underneath. Each space is measured and under-stairs cupboards are made to suit it.
The furniture is built in our workshop after you’ve had the quote and decided to go ahead. It describes the design, the materials and the finish agreed at the visit, so every detail can be checked first.
- Where
- St Mary Cray (BR5, BR6, BR7)
- Area
- Bromley
- Price
- Quoted for your room
- First step
- We visit, measure, then quote
- Made
- Made in our workshop and fitted on site
- Materials and finish
- MDF and plywood, painted to order
- Fitting days
- Weekdays; Saturdays on request
- Get in touch
- Our contact form
- Updated
- 27 October 2026
What we don’t do
Before you plan the job, it helps to know what we don’t do:
- Moving gas pipes under the stairs
- Electrical work under the stairs, which your electrician carries out
- Changing where a meter sits, which isn’t carpentry
Not sure whether your space suits under-stairs storage? You can fill in our short enquiry form and we’ll tell you. How a job runs, step by step.
What goes into it
- Hand-painted finish
- Birch plywood
- Pull-out drawers
- Moisture-resistant MDF
- Coat hooks and shoe shelves
- Spray-painted finish
What it costs
We quote each job after the design visit, because no two rooms are the same. This is what makes the difference:
- How easy it is to get the furniture into the room
- Doors and drawers, and how many
- Spray painting or hand painting
- Parking near your home
Parking is part of the price picture in London. Much of London is covered by controlled parking zones, so a van may need a visitor permit, a paid bay or a bay suspension near your home. Tell us about parking at the design visit, so it can be planned.
What we need to know
Ahead of the design visit, we will normally ask about:
- Pictures of styles you like, if you have any
- Where you live, with the postcode
- What you’d like to store or use the space for
- Rough measurements, even if they’re only to the nearest few centimetres
Pictures 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. To send them over, message us from the contact page, and we’ll suggest a time for a design visit.
Your questions about under-stairs storage in St Mary Cray
Is St Mary Cray in the area you cover for under-stairs storage?
Yes. We cover all of Bromley and the rest of London, and St Mary Cray is part of that. We start with a design visit to measure the room and talk through what you need, followed by a quote.
Can you fit furniture in a home close to St Mary Cray station?
Yes. We cover all of Bromley and the rest of London. You can drop us a line using the contact form to arrange a design visit.
Is an outside wall a problem for fitted furniture?
External walls can be colder and damper than internal ones, so ventilation behind and inside the furniture helps to avoid condensation. If there’s damp, it should be sorted before anything is fitted.
Do you move sockets or add lighting?
No. Any new wiring, sockets or lights need an electrician, and some electrical work in homes is covered by Part P of the Building Regulations. We’ll design around them.
Can I send photos ahead of the visit?
Yes. They give us a feel for the space before we visit, along with rough measurements. It’s useful to show radiators, sockets and anything else on the wall.
What materials do you use for under-stairs storage?
Our storage is made from moisture-resistant MDF and birch plywood, then painted. Birch plywood holds screws well, which matters for drawers that carry weight. The materials and finish are agreed in your quote.
St Mary Cray homes and under-stairs storage
About 42% of the homes in the streets around St Mary Cray went up between 1945 and 1972, and about 22% between 1919 and 1939, 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. There are 15 entries on the National Heritage List within half a mile of the centre of St Mary Cray. Being near listed buildings does not make a home listed, and you can check any address on Historic England’s list. Red routes are run by TfL, with tight limits on where and when vehicles can stop. If your home in St Mary Cray is on or near a main road, tell us at the measuring visit. We can then plan where the van will stop.
Near listed buildings like Church of St Mary, less than half a mile north-east of the centre of St Mary Cray, older homes may keep original joinery that under-stairs cupboards can be designed around. For a listed home, fixing into original features can need listed building consent. For a flat near St Mary Cray station, 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. For a family home near Poverest Primary School, a place for each person’s coat and shoes stops the hallway filling up.
St Mary Cray is in the London Borough of Bromley, about 1 mile south of Orpington. Our work covers every London borough and the City of London, St Mary Cray included. In Bromley, St Mary Cray is one of the places we cover, and the borough has 49 places on our list.
Here we cover the BR5, BR6 and BR7 postcode area for under-stairs storage. If your home is on a street like New Road, Kent Road and Park Road, or close by, we can visit to measure up for under-stairs storage. The A224 run close to St Mary Cray, so if your home is on a main road, mention it when you contact us. Close by, we also work in Poverest (1 mile south-west), St Paul's Cray (1 mile north), Orpington (1 mile south), Derry Downs (1 mile south-east) and Kevington (1 mile east). Across the rest of Bromley, our area takes in Bromley (4 miles west), Beckenham (6 miles west), Chislehurst (2 miles north-west), Penge (7 miles west), Anerley (8 miles west) and Crystal Palace (8 miles west). St Mary Cray is one of the larger places we cover in Bromley.
Near you in St Mary Cray
Around St Mary Cray, we cover homes near Walsingham School, Harris Academy Orpington and The Blue Anchor Public House, among other places. There’s a railway station in St Mary Cray itself: St Mary Cray station. Other landmarks nearby include Queen Mary's Hospital (1.9 miles north) and London Borough of Bromley Museum (0.9 miles south). For a walk, there is The Warren.
DIY, flat-pack or bespoke
Bespoke work comes into its own in rooms that are not square. In period homes, walls lean, floors slope and the alcoves on each side are often different widths.
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.
How fitting day works
In older rooms, the furniture usually has to meet skirting, picture rails, cornice or coving. We cut and scribe the furniture around them on site. The time the fitting takes depends on how much storage you want under the stairs, and we confirm the fitting days in your quote. Some interwar and suburban streets have driveways, which can make unloading easier, so it is worth mentioning at the measuring visit. Otherwise, details of permits or nearby bays help. Doorways, stairs and floors are covered on the way in.
- First we hear what’s under your stairs now and what you need.
- We measure the space, the slope and the floor, and note any meters or fuse boards.
- The design is agreed and a written quote follows, with the finish set out.
- The storage is made in our workshop and painted in your colour.
- We fit it in your home and check every drawer and door with you.
Preparing the room
- Clear the area where the furniture is going
- If you live in a block, book the lift and tell the building manager
- Let us know about any meters, fuse boards or boilers in the area
How to get a quote
To make a start, message us from the contact page and tell us a little about the room and what you want the furniture to do. We then arrange a design visit to measure and go through the design, and a quote in writing follows.